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¹ And Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and said to them, These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.² Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work therein shall be put to death.³ You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.⁴ And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,⁵ You take from among you an offering to Yahweh; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, and silver, and bronze,⁶ and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair],⁷ and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood,⁸ and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,⁹ and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.¹⁰ And let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:¹¹ the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;¹² the ark, and the poles thereof, the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen;¹³ the table, and its poles, and all its vessels, and the showbread;¹⁴ the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light;¹⁵ and the altar of incense, and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;¹⁶ the altar of burnt-offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;¹⁷ the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;¹⁸ the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords;¹⁹ the finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to serve in the priest's office.

²⁰ And all the congregation of the sons of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.²¹ And every one [of the wise-hearted] whose heart stirred him up came; and every one whom his spirit made willing brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments.²² And the men as well as the women, as many as were willing-hearted, brought brooches, and earrings, and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man that offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.²³ And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them.²⁴ Every one that offered an offering of silver and bronze brought Yahweh's offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.²⁵ And all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.²⁶ And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' [hair].²⁷ And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;²⁸ and the spice, and the oil; for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.²⁹ The sons of Israel brought a freewill-offering to Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

³⁰ And 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 understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;³² and to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,³³ and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skillful workmanship.³⁴ And he has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.³⁵ He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those that do any workmanship, and of those that devise skillful works.