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1 “The LORD has gifted Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other skilled craftsmen with wisdom and ability to perform any task involved in building the sanctuary. Let them construct and furnish the Tabernacle, just as the LORD has commanded.”
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"Let Bezalel, Oholiab, and every other skilled worker whom the LORD has given skill, ability, and knowledge for the work of building the sanctuary do all that the LORD has commanded."
2 So Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and all the others who were specially gifted by the LORD and were eager to get to work.
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Moses then called together Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person whom the LORD had given skill and who was eager to come and do the work.
3 Moses gave them the materials donated by the people of Israel as sacred offerings for the completion of the sanctuary. But the people continued to bring additional gifts each morning.
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Moses gave them all the gift offerings that the Israelites had contributed to the work on the sanctuary. They kept bringing him spontaneous gifts, morning after morning.
4 Finally the craftsmen who were working on the sanctuary left their work.
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Finally, all the skilled workers building the sanctuary left their work that they were doing one by one to come
5 They went to Moses and reported, “The people have given more than enough materials to complete the job the LORD has commanded us to do!”
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and say to Moses, "The people are contributing way too much material for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do."
6 So Moses gave the command, and this message was sent throughout the camp: “Men and women, don’t prepare any more gifts for the sanctuary. We have enough!” So the people stopped bringing their sacred offerings.
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So Moses issued a command that was proclaimed throughout the camp: "Every man and woman should stop making gift offerings for the sanctuary project." So the people stopped bringing anything more
7 Their contributions were more than enough to complete the whole project.
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because what they had already brought was more than enough to do all the work.
8 The skilled craftsmen made ten curtains of finely woven linen for the Tabernacle. Then Bezalel decorated the curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and with skillfully embroidered cherubim.
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All the skilled workers made the dwelling out of ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and deep red yarns, with figures of winged heavenly creatures worked into their design.
9 All ten curtains were exactly the same size—42 feet long and 6 feet wide.
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Each curtain was forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All the curtains were the same size.
10 Five of these curtains were joined together to make one long curtain, and the other five were joined to make a second long curtain.
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They joined five of the curtains to each other and joined the other five curtains to each other.
11 He made fifty loops of blue yarn and put them along the edge of the last curtain in each set.
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They made loops of blue thread on the edge of the outer curtain of the first set. They did the same on the edge of the outer curtain of the second set.
12 The fifty loops along the edge of one curtain matched the fifty loops along the edge of the other curtain.
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They made fifty loops on the one curtain and fifty loops on the outer curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite each other.
13 Then he made fifty gold clasps and fastened the long curtains together with the clasps. In this way, the Tabernacle was made of one continuous piece.
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They also made fifty gold clasps, and they used the clasps to join the curtains to each other so that the dwelling was one whole structure.
14 He made eleven curtains of goat-hair cloth to serve as a tent covering for the Tabernacle.
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They also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the dwelling. They made eleven curtains.
15 These eleven curtains were all exactly the same size—45 feet long and 6 feet wide.
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Each curtain was forty-five feet long and each curtain six feet wide. All eleven curtains were the same size.
16 Bezalel joined five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, and the other six were joined to make a second long curtain.
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They joined five curtains together and the six other curtains together.
17 He made fifty loops for the edge of each large curtain.
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They made fifty loops on the edge of the outer curtain of the one set and fifty loops on the edge of the other set of curtains.
18 He also made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the long curtains together. In this way, the tent covering was made of one continuous piece.
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They made fifty copper clasps to join the tent together so that it would be one whole structure.
19 He completed the tent covering with a layer of tanned ram skins and a layer of fine goatskin leather.
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They also made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and an outer covering of beaded leather.
20 For the framework of the Tabernacle, Bezalel constructed frames of acacia wood.
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Then they made acacia-wood boards to stand upright as a frame for the dwelling.
21 Each frame was 15 feet high and 27 inches wide,
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Each board was fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide.
22 with two pegs under each frame. All the frames were identical.
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Each board had two pegs for joining them to each other. They did this for all the dwelling's boards.
23 He made twenty of these frames to support the curtains on the south side of the Tabernacle.
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They made twenty boards for the dwelling's southern side.
24 He also made forty silver bases—two bases under each frame, with the pegs fitting securely into the bases.
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They made forty silver bases under the twenty boards, with two bases under the first board for its two pegs, two bases under the next board for its two pegs, and so on.
25 For the north side of the Tabernacle, he made another twenty frames,
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For the dwelling's other side on the north, they made twenty boards
26 with their forty silver bases, two bases under each frame.
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and forty silver bases, two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
27 He made six frames for the rear—the west side of the Tabernacle—
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For the back of the dwelling on the west, they made six boards.
28 along with two additional frames to reinforce the rear corners of the Tabernacle.
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They made two additional boards for the dwelling's rear corners.
29 These corner frames were matched at the bottom and firmly attached at the top with a single ring, forming a single corner unit. Both of these corner units were made the same way.
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They were spread out at the bottom but joined together at the top with one ring. In this way, these two boards formed the two corners.
30 So there were eight frames at the rear of the Tabernacle, set in sixteen silver bases—two bases under each frame.
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And so there were eight boards with their sixteen silver bases, with two bases under every board.
31 Then he made crossbars of acacia wood to link the frames, five crossbars for the north side of the Tabernacle
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They also made acacia-wood bars: five for the boards on one side of the dwelling,
32 and five for the south side. He also made five crossbars for the rear of the Tabernacle, which faced west.
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five bars for the boards on the other side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards on the back wall of the dwelling on the west.
33 He made the middle crossbar to attach halfway up the frames; it ran all the way from one end of the Tabernacle to the other.
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They made the middle bar, which was halfway up the boards, run from one end to the other.
34 He overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. Then he overlaid the crossbars with gold as well.
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They covered the boards with gold. They made gold rings to house the bars and covered the bars with gold.
35 For the inside of the Tabernacle, Bezalel made a special curtain of finely woven linen. He decorated it with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and with skillfully embroidered cherubim.
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They made the veil of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine twisted linen, with figures of winged heavenly creatures worked into its design.
36 For the curtain, he made four posts of acacia wood and four gold hooks. He overlaid the posts with gold and set them in four silver bases.
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They made for it four acacia-wood posts covered in gold with gold hooks and cast four silver bases for them.
37 Then he made another curtain for the entrance to the sacred tent. He made it of finely woven linen and embroidered it with exquisite designs using blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
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They made a screen for the entrance to the tent of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine twisted linen, decorated with needlework.
38 This curtain was hung on gold hooks attached to five posts. The posts with their decorated tops and hooks were overlaid with gold, and the five bases were cast from bronze.
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They made its five posts with hooks. They covered their tops and bands with gold, but made their five bases out of copper.
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