V.
Building the tabernacle
35:1—40:38
A.
The making of the tabernacle with its furniture and the garments for the priests
35:1—39:31
1.
A word concerning the Sabbath
35:1-3
Exo. 35
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35:1
And Moses gathered all the assembly of the children of Israel and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded you to do.
Exo. 35
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35:2
aSix days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a
1Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
Exo. 35
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35:3
You shall kindle no fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.
2.
The offering of the materials and the preparing of the workers
35:4—36:7
Exo. 35
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35:4
aAnd Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is what Jehovah has commanded, saying,
Exo. 35
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35:5
1Take from among yourselves a
2heave offering to Jehovah; whoever is of a willing
aheart, let him bring it, the heave offering of Jehovah: gold and silver and bronze,
Exo. 35
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35:6
And blue and purple and scarlet
strands, and fine linen, and goats’
hair,
Exo. 35
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35:7
And rams’ skins dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood,
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35:8
And oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
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35:9
And onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
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35:10
And let every man who is
1awise in heart among you come and make all that Jehovah has commanded:
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35:11
aThe tabernacle, its
btent, and its covering; its clasps and its boards; its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
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35:12
The aArk and its poles, the expiation cover, and the
bveil of the screen;
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35:13
The atable and its poles and all its utensils, and the
bbread of the Presence;
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35:14
And the
alampstand for the light and its utensils and its lamps, and the
boil for the light;
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35:15
And the
aaltar of incense and its poles; and the
banointing oil and the fragrant
cincense; and the
dscreen for the entrance, at the entrance of the tabernacle;
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35:16
The aaltar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the
blaver and its base;
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35:17
The hangings of the
acourt, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
Exo. 35
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35:18
The pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;
Exo. 35
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35:19
The finely worked garments for ministering in the sanctuary, the holy
agarments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons
for them to serve as priests.
Exo. 35
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35:20
And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
Exo. 35
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35:21
And they came, everyone whose heart
1lifted him up and everyone whose
1spirit made him
awilling,
and brought the
bheave offering of Jehovah for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.
Exo. 35
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35:22
And they came, men together with women, as many as were of a willing
aheart,
and brought nose
brings and earrings and signet rings and pendants, all
kinds of articles of gold; even every man who waved a wave offering of gold to Jehovah.
Exo. 35
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35:23
And every man with whom was found
ablue and purple and scarlet
strands and fine linen and goats’
hair and rams’ skins dyed red and porpoise skins brought
them.
Exo. 35
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35:24
Everyone who offered a heave offering of silver and bronze brought the heave offering of Jehovah, and every man with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought
it.
Exo. 35
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35:25
And all the women who were
awise in heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, the blue and the purple
and the scarlet
strands and the fine linen.
Exo. 35
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35:26
And all the women whose heart lifted them up in wisdom spun the goats’
hair.
Exo. 35
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35:27
And the leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastplate,
Exo. 35
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35:28
And the spices and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
Exo. 35
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35:29
The children of Israel brought a
1freewill offering to Jehovah, every man and woman whose
aheart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Jehovah had commanded through Moses to be done.
Exo. 35
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35:30
aAnd Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name
bBezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
Exo. 35
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35:31
And He has filled him with the
aSpirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all
kinds of workmanship;
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35:32
Even to fashion skillful designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze,
Exo. 35
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35:33
And in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, to work in all
kinds of skillful workmanship.
Exo. 35
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35:34
And He has put in his heart to
1teach, both he and
aOholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
Exo. 35
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35:35
He has filled them with
awisdom of heart, to work all
kinds of workmanship, of an
1engraver and of a skillful workman and of an embroiderer in blue and in purple
and in scarlet
strands and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do all
kinds of workmanship and of those who fashion skillful designs.
