Exodus 35:6-16

6 fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; cloth made of goats' hair;

7 rams' skin dyed red; fine leather; acacia wood;

8 oil for the lamps; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense;

9 carnelians and other jewels to be set in the High Priest's ephod and in his breastpiece.

10 "All the skilled workers among you are to come and make everything that the Lord commanded:

11 the Tent, its covering and its outer covering, its hooks and its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases;

12 the Covenant Box, its poles, its lid, and the curtain to screen it off;

13 the table, its poles, and all its equipment; the bread offered to God;

14 the lampstand for the light and its equipment; the lamps with their oil;

15 the altar for burning incense and its poles; the anointing oil; the sweet-smelling incense; the curtain for the entrance of the Tent;

16 the altar on which to burn offerings, with its bronze grating attached, its poles, and all its equipment; the washbasin and its base;

Exodus 35:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 35

This chapter begins with a renewal of the command of the sabbath, Ex 35:1-3 and contains an order for a freewill offering to be brought for the service of the sanctuary, and specifies the things to be brought, and for what uses, Ex 35:4-19 to which there was a ready compliance, and men and women, princes and the common people, everyone according to what they had in possession, brought and offered it freely, Ex 35:20-29 and for their encouragement, that their offering would not be in vain, they were informed there were two persons divinely inspired, to do, and teach to be done, all manner of work for the tabernacle, towards which they had made such a liberal and plentiful contribution, Ex 35:30-35.