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Exodus - ch 36 v 1 - 20
- Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whom Jehovah had put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work of the service of the sanctuary -- according to all that Jehovah had commanded.
- And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whose heart God had put wisdom, every one whose heart moved him to come to the work to do it.
- And they took from Moses every heave-offering that the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought him voluntary offerings morning by morning.
- And all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which they wrought,
- and spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded to be done.
- Then Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed through the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary! So the people were restrained from bringing;
- for the work they had was sufficient for all the work to do it, and it was too much.
- And every wise-hearted man among those that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work did he make them.
- The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits -- one measure for all the curtains.
- And he coupled five of the curtains one to another, and the other five curtains coupled he one to another.
- And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain at the edge of the coupling; he did likewise in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling.
- He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops at the end of the curtain that was in the other coupling: the loops were opposite to one another.
- And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one.
- And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.
- The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain -- one measure for the eleven curtains.
- And he coupled five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves.
- And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he on the edge of the curtain in the other coupling.
- And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.
- And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
- And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;
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