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📚Then Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every skillful person in whom the LORD had put skill and understanding to know how to do all kinds of work for the service of the sanctuary, worked according to all that the LORD had commanded.2 📚And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every skillful person in whose heart the LORD had put skill, each one whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work, 3 📚and they received from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, for its construction. And they continued to bring him freewill offerings every morning. 4 📚And all the skillful men who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each one from his work which they were doing, 5 📚and they spoke to Moses, saying, “The people are bringing much more than enough for the building work which the LORD commanded to be done”.
6 And Moses gave an order and they proclaimed it throughout the camp, saying, “Neither man nor woman should do anything more for the offering for the sanctuary”. So the people were restrained from bringing more. 7 📚For the material they had was enough, and more than enough, for all the work to be done.
36:5-7 See 2 Chron 31:6-10. This will be the result in any age, in any country on earth when God’s people willingly and lovingly give to Him for His work. Then God’s blessing will be on His people (Mal 3:10; 2 Cor 9:7-9).⚜
The building of the tabernacle
8 📚And every skillful person among them who was doing work on the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine woven linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet. He made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful craftsman. 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. The curtains were all of one size. 10 📚And he joined five curtains to one another, then joined the other five curtains to one another. 11 📚And he made loops of blue on the edge of the end curtain of the first set; he did the same on the end curtain of the second set. 12 📚He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops held one curtain to another. 13 📚And he made fifty clasps of gold, and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps. So the tabernacle became a unit.
14 📚And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven of these curtains. 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain was four cubits. The eleven curtains were of one size. 16 And he joined five curtains by themselves, and the other six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the set, and made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. 18 And he made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together, so that it would be a unit. 19 📚And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
20 📚And he made boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, to stand upright. 21 The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width of each board one cubit and a half. 22 Each board had two tenons, equally distant from one another. He made these for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 And he made boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side facing south. 24 And he made forty silver sockets on the bottom of the twenty boards, two sockets under each board for its two tenons, and two sockets under every other board for its two tenons. 25 And he made twenty boards for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, 26 and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under each board, and two sockets under every other board. 27 📚And he made six boards for the west side of the tabernacle. 28 And he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear. 29 📚And they were double from the bottom and so to its top and joined together to one ring. He did this for both of them for the two corners. 30 📚And there were eight boards; and they had sixteen silver sockets, two sockets under each board.
31 📚And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle, 32 📚and five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the west side. 33 And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the other. 34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings out of gold to hold the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 📚And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine woven linen. He made it with cherubim, the work of a skillful craftsman. 36 📚And he made four pillars of acacia wood for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks also were of gold. And he cast four sockets of silver for them. 37 📚And for the tabernacle doorway he made a hanging of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine woven linen, of needlework. 38 📚And he made its five pillars with their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold; but their five sockets were of bronze.