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The Sabbath Command

¹ Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, "^(C1)These are the things that Yahweh has commanded you to ^(F1)do:

² "^(C1)Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, ^(C2)a sabbath of complete rest to Yahweh; ^(C3)whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.³ "^(C1)You shall not kindle a fire in any of your places of habitation on the sabbath day."

Willing Hearts Contribute to Yahweh

⁴ And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, saying,⁵ '^(C1)Take from among you a ^(F1)contribution to Yahweh; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as a ^(F1)contribution to Yahweh: gold, silver, and ^(F2)bronze,⁶ and ^(F1)blue, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goats' hair,⁷ and rams' skins ^(F1)dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood,⁸ and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,⁹ and onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the ^(F1)breastpiece.

¹⁰ '^(C1)And let everyone ^(F1)wise at heart among you come and make all that Yahweh has commanded:¹¹ the ^(F1)(C1)tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;¹² the ^(C1)ark and its poles, the ^(F1)mercy seat, and the curtain of the screen;¹³ the ^(C1)table and its poles, and all its ^(F1)utensils, and the bread of the ^(F2)Presence;¹⁴ the ^(C1)lampstand also for the light and its utensils and its lamps and the oil for the light;¹⁵ and the ^(C1)altar of incense and its poles, and the ^(C2)anointing oil and the ^(C3)fragrant incense, and the screen for the doorway at the ^(F1)entrance of the tabernacle;^16 (C1)the altar of burnt offering with its ^(F1)bronze grating, its poles, and all its ^(F2)utensils, the laver and its stand;^17 (C1)the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;¹⁸ the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court and their cords;¹⁹ the ^(F1)(C1)woven garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.'"

Contributions Brought by the People

²⁰ Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel went out from Moses' presence.^21 (C1)And everyone whose heart ^(F1)stirred him and everyone whose spirit was willing came and brought the ^(F2)contribution to Yahweh for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.²² Then all whose hearts were willing, both men and women, came and brought brooches and ^(F1)earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all articles of gold; so did every man who waved it as a wave offering of gold to Yahweh.²³ And every man, ^(F1)who had in his possession ^(F2)blue and purple and scarlet material and fine linen and goats' hair and rams' skins ^(F3)dyed red and porpoise skins, brought them.²⁴ Everyone who could raise up a ^(F1)contribution of silver and ^(F2)bronze brought the ^(F1)contribution to Yahweh; and every man ^(F3)who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.²⁵ All the women ^(F1)wise at heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, in ^(F2)blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.²⁶ And all the women whose heart ^(F1)stirred with wisdom spun the goats' hair.²⁷ And the rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the ^(F1)breastpiece;²⁸ and ^(C1)the spice and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.²⁹ The sons of Israel—all the men and women whose heart was willing to bring material for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded through the hand of Moses to do—brought a ^(C1)freewill offering to Yahweh.

^30 (C1)Then Moses said to the sons of Israel, "See, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.³¹ "And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in discernment, and in knowledge, and in all ^(F1)craftsmanship;³² to devise ^(F1)designs for working in gold and in silver and in ^(F2)bronze,³³ and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to do well in every work of thoughtful design.³⁴ "He also has put in his heart to teach, both he and ^(C1)Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.³⁵ "^(C1)He has filled them with ^(F1)wisdom in their heart to do every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer, in ^(F2)blue and in purple and in scarlet material and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as those who do every work and make designs.