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📚And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together and said to them, “These are the things which the LORD has commanded you to do. 2 📚Work is to be done for six days, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever works on it shall be put to death. 3 📚On the Sabbath you shall not light a fire in any of your homes”.Offerings for the building of the tabernacle
4 📚And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded, saying, 5 📚‘Take from among yourselves an offering for the LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering for the LORD: 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 badgers’ skins, and acacia wood, 8 📚and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 9 📚and onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
35:5,9 Ex 25:1-9. In offerings made to God there must be a willing mind (vs 21,29; Deut 15:10; 1 Chron 29:3, 5, 9, 14, 17; 2 Cor 9:7; 8:12), otherwise the offering is not acceptable. God’s people should count it a joy to give to God and His work. If we do not, there is something wrong with our spiritual condition. God’s command to give of our substance to Him is a test of our love for Him and His work. If we love Him we will want to give something to Him. The people then were giving for the construction of a sanctuary so God could live among them. New Testament believers have the privilege of giving toward the work of the building of God’s spiritual house, the church which is Christ’s body. Note and references on giving at 2 Cor 9:15.⚜
The Tabernacle Articles
10 📚“And let every skillful person among you come and make all that the LORD has commanded: 11 📚the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its crossbars, its pillars, and its sockets, 12 📚the ark, and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil that hides it, 13 📚the table, and its poles, and all its utensils, and the Showbread, 14 📚also the lampstand for the light, and its articles, and its lamps, with the oil for the light, 15 📚and the incense altar, and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle, 16 📚the altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils, the laver and its base, 17 📚the hangings of the court, its pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court, 18 📚the pegs for the tabernacle, and the pegs for the court, and their cords, 19 📚the woven garments for service in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to serve as priests”.
20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel left Moses’ presence, 21 📚and everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whose spirit made him willing, came and brought the LORD’s offering for the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 22 📚And all who were willing, both men and women, came and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and ornaments, all gold jewelry, and everyone presented an offering of gold to the LORD. 23 📚And everyone who had in his possession blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them. 24 📚Everyone who presented an offering of silver and bronze brought the LORD’s offering, and everyone who had acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. 25 📚And all the women who were skillful spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. 26 📚And all the women whose heart stirred them with a skill spun goats’ hair. 27 📚And the leaders brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate, 28 📚and spices, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. 29 📚The children of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, each man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring something for all the kinds of work which the LORD had commanded through Moses to be made.
The Call of Bezaleel and Aholiab
30 📚And Moses said to the children of Israel, “See, the LORD has called Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, by name 31 📚and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all manner of craftsmanship, 32 to make designs to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, 33 and to cut stones for setting them, and in carving wood, to make any kind of artistic work. 34 📚And he has put in his heart, both his and that of Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others. 35 📚He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all kinds of work, of the engraver, and of the artistic craftsman, and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, of those who do any work, and of those who make designs”.