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1 Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful one to whom the Lord has given skill and understanding to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.
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"Bezalel and Oholiab, along with everyone whom God has given the skill and know-how for making everything involved in the worship of the Sanctuary as commanded by God, are to start to work."
2 Moses then called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful one to whom the Lord had given skill, everyone whose heart was stirred to come to do the work;
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Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab along with all whom God had gifted with the ability to work skillfully with their hands. The men were eager to get started and engage in the work.
3 and they received from Moses all the freewill offerings that the Israelites had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,
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They took from Moses all the offerings that the Israelites had brought for the work of constructing the Sanctuary. The people kept on bringing in their freewill offerings, morning after morning.
4 so that all the artisans who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task being performed,
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All the artisans who were at work making everything involved in constructing the Sanctuary came, one after another,
5 and said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do."
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to Moses, saying, "The people are bringing more than enough for doing this work that God has commanded us to do!"
6 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp: "No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing;
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So Moses sent out orders through the camp: "Men! Women! No more offerings for the building of the Sanctuary!"
7 for what they had already brought was more than enough to do all the work.
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There was plenty of material for all the work to be done. Enough and more than enough. The Tapestries
8 All those with skill among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains; they were made of fine twisted linen, and blue, purple, and crimson yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
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Then all the skilled artisans on The Dwelling made ten tapestries of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet fabric with an angel-cherubim design worked into the material.
9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains were of the same size.
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Each panel of tapestry was forty-six feet long and six feet wide.
10 He joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another.
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Five of the panels were joined together, and then the other five.
11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set; likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set;
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Loops of blue were made along the edge of the outside panel of the first set, and the same on the outside panel of the second set.
12 he made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.
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They made fifty loops on each panel, with the loops opposite each other.
13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and joined the curtains one to the other with clasps; so the tabernacle was one whole.
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Then they made fifty gold clasps and joined the tapestries together so that The Dwelling was one whole.
14 He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.
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Next they made tapestries of woven goat hair for a tent that would cover The Dwelling. They made eleven panels of these tapestries.
15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were of the same size.
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The length of each panel was forty-five feet long and six feet wide.
16 He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
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They joined five of the panels together, and then the other six,
17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.
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by making fifty loops along the edge of the end panel and fifty loops along the edge of the joining panel,
18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together so that it might be one whole.
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then making fifty clasps of bronze, connecting the clasps to the loops, bringing the tent together.
19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and an outer covering of fine leather.
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They finished it off by covering the tapestries with tanned rams' skins dyed red, and covered that with dolphin skins. The Framing
20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
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They framed The Dwelling with vertical planks of acacia wood,
21 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the width of each frame.
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each section of frame fifteen feet long and two and a quarter feet wide,
22 Each frame had two pegs for fitting together; he did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
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with two pegs for securing them. They made all the frames identical:
23 The frames for the tabernacle he made in this way: twenty frames for the south side;
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twenty frames for the south side,
24 and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under the first frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs.
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with forty silver sockets to receive the two tenons from each of the twenty frames;
25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames
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they repeated that construction on the north side of The Dwelling.
26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next frame.
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27 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.
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For the rear of The Dwelling facing west, they made six frames,
28 He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.
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with two additional frames for the rear corners.
29 They were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; he made two of them in this way, for the two corners.
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Both of the two corner frames were double in thickness from top to bottom and fit into a single ring
30 There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.
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- eight frames altogether with sixteen sockets of silver, two under each frame.
31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
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They made crossbars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of The Dwelling,
32 and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
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five for the other side, and five for the back side facing west.
33 He made the middle bar to pass through from end to end halfway up the frames.
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The center crossbar ran from end to end halfway up the frames.
34 And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made rings of gold for them to hold the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
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They covered the frames with a veneer of gold, made gold rings to hold the crossbars, and covered the crossbars with a veneer of gold.
35 He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
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They made the curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. They wove a design of angel-cherubim into it.
36 For it he made four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.
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They made four posts of acacia wood, covered them with a veneer of gold, and cast four silver bases for them.
37 He also made a screen for the entrance to the tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework;
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They made a screen for the door of the tent, woven from blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen with embroidery.
38 and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their bases with gold, but their five bases were of bronze.
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They framed the weaving with five poles of acacia wood covered with a veneer of gold, and made gold hooks to hang the weaving and five bronze bases for the poles.
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