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Bezalel and Oholiab Help

¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, ² "See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri from the tribe of Judah. (Uri was the son of Hur.) ³ I have filled Bezalel with the Spirit of God and have given him the skill, ability, and knowledge to do all kinds of work. ⁴ He is able to design pieces to be made from gold, silver, and bronze, ⁵ to cut jewels and put them in metal, to carve wood, and to do all kinds of work. ⁶ I have also chosen Oholiab son of Ahisamach from the tribe of Dan to work with Bezalel. I have given skills to all the craftsmen, and they will be able to make all these things I have commanded you: ⁷ the Meeting Tent, the Ark of the Agreement, the lid that covers the Ark, and everything in the Tent. ⁸ This includes the table and everything on it, the pure gold lampstand and everything with it, the altar of incense, ⁹ the altar for burnt offerings and everything used with it, and the bowl and the stand under it. ¹⁰ They will make the woven clothes and the holy clothes for Aaron and the clothes for his sons to wear when they serve as priests. ¹¹ They will also make the special olive oil used in appointing people and things to the service of the Lord, and the sweet-smelling incense for the Holy Place.

"These workers will make all these things just as I have commanded you."

The Day of Rest

¹² Then the Lord said to Moses, ¹³ "Tell the Israelites, ‘You must keep the rules about my Sabbaths, because they will be a sign between you and me from now on. In this way you will know that I, the Lord, make you holy.

¹⁴ "‘Make the Sabbath a holy day. If anyone treats the Sabbath like any other day, that person must be put to death; anyone who works on the Sabbath day must be cut off from his people. ¹⁵ There are six days for working, but the seventh day is a day of rest, a day holy for the Lord. Anyone who works during the Sabbath day must be put to death. ¹⁶ The Israelites must remember the Sabbath day as an agreement between them and me that will continue from now on. ¹⁷ The Sabbath day will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, because in six days I, the Lord, made the sky and the earth. On the seventh day I did not work; I rested.'"

¹⁸ When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone tablets with the Agreement written on them, written by the finger of God.