Exodus — Chapter 35

Moses then convoked the whole Israelite communityawhole Israelite community Or the leadership, on everyone’s behalf. and said to them:These are the things that GOD has commanded you to do:

On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest, holy to GOD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

You shall kindle no fire throughout your settlements on the sabbath day.

Moses said further to the whole Israelite community:This is what GOD has commanded:

Take from among you gifts to GOD; everyone whose heart is so moved shall bring them—gifts for GOD:bOn the list that follows, see 25.4–7 and the notes there. gold, silver, and copper;

blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, and goats’ hair;

tanned ram skins, dolphin skins, and acacia wood;

oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the aromatic incense;

lapis lazuli and other stones for setting, for the ephod and the breastpiece.

And let all among you who are skilled come and make all that GOD has commanded:

the Tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its planks, its bars, its posts, and its sockets;

the ark and its poles, the cover, and the curtain for the screen;

the table, and its poles and all its utensils; and the bread of display;

the lampstand for lighting, its furnishings and its lamps, and the oil for lighting;

the altar of incense and its poles; the anointing oil and the aromatic incense; and the entrance screen for the entrance of the Tabernacle;

the altar of burnt offering, its copper grating, its poles, and all its furnishings; the laver and its stand;

the hangings of the enclosure, its posts and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

the pegs for the Tabernacle, the pegs for the enclosure, and their cords;

the service vestments for officiating in the sanctuary, the sacral vestments of Aaron the priest and the vestments of his sons for priestly service.

So the whole Israelite communitycwhole Israelite community See note at v. 1. left Moses’ presence.

And everyone who excelled in ability and everyone whose spirit was moved came, bringing to GOD an offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the sacral vestments.

Men and women, all whose hearts moved them, all who would make an elevation offering of gold to GOD, came bringing brooches, earrings, rings, and pendantsdpendants Meaning of Heb. kumaz uncertain; cf. Num. 31.50.—gold objects of all kinds.

And everyone who possessed blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, goats’ hair, tanned ram skins, and dolphin skins, brought them;

everyone who would make gifts of silver or copper brought them as gifts for GOD; and everyone who possessed acacia wood for any work of the service brought that.

And all the skilled women spun with their own hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and in fine linen.

And all the women who excelled in that skill spun the goats’ hair.

And the chieftains brought lapis lazuli and other stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece;

and spices and oil for lighting, for the anointing oil, and for the aromatic incense.

Thus the Israelites, all the men and women whose hearts moved them to bring anything for the work that GOD, through Moses, had commanded to be done, brought it as a freewill offering to GOD.

And Moses said to the Israelites: See, GOD has singled out by name Bezalel, son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

endowing him with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge in every kind of craft,

and inspiring himeinspiring him Moved up from v. 34 for clarity. to make designs for work in gold, silver, and copper,

to cut stones for setting and to carve wood—to work in every kind of designer’s craft—

and to give directions. He and Oholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan

have been endowed with the skill to do any work—of the carver, the designer, the embroiderer in blue, purple, crimson yarns, and in fine linen, and of the weaver—as workers in all crafts and as makers of designs.