Exodus 36

1Now Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the Lord put wisdom and knowledge to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the holy place, did according to all the Lord commanded.

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2Then Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whose heart the Lord put wisdom, everyone whose heart willed freely to come and do the work.

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3They received from Moses all the offerings the children of Israel brought for all the works for making the holy place, and they continued bringing him freewill offerings every morning.

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4Then all the wise men who were doing all the work of the holy place came, each according to the work he was doing,

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5and they spoke to Moses, saying, 'The people bring much more than enough for the work the Lord commanded us to do.'

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6So Moses gave a commandment and proclaimed it throughout the camp, saying, 'Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the offering of the holy place.' Thus the people were restrained from bringing more,

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7for the material was sufficient for all the work to be done—indeed, too much.

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8Then all the gifted artisans among them who worked on Aaron's garments for the holy places did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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9He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, spun scarlet, and fine twined linen.

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10Thin plates of gold were then cut into threads to be woven into the blue, purple, spun scarlet, and fine twined linen; and they formed it as a woven piece.

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11He then coupled the ephod together from its two sides, a work woven by a mutual twisting of the parts into one another.

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12They constructed it according to the same workmanship of gold, blue, purple, spun scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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13Then they made two emerald stones, clasped together and set in gold, carved and engraved as signets are engraved with the names of the sons of Israel.

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14He attached these as memorial stones to the shoulders of the ephod for the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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15Then they made the oracle, a woven work of embroidery like the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, spun scarlet, and fine twined linen.

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16They made the oracle square by doubling it; a span was its length and a span its width when doubled.

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17Interwoven into this texture was a setting of four rows of stones: the first row, a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;

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18and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper;

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19and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

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20and the fourth row, a chrysolite, a beryl, and an onyx, set around with gold and fastened with gold.

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21The twelve stones bore the names of the sons of Israel, their names engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes.

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22Then they made on the oracle chains, plaited fringes of gold, a work of pure gold.

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23They also made two gold bosses and two gold rings.

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24Then they put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the oracle.

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25They also attached two golden clasps to the rings on both sides of the oracle, the two clasps to the two couplings.

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26Then they placed the two gold bosses, joining them to the shoulders of the ephod opposite one another in the front.

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27They made two gold rings and attached them to two loops on top of the oracle, near the back of it, the side toward the ephod.

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28Then they made two gold rings and attached them below the two shoulders of the ephod in front, woven into the ephod like the coupling above.

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29Then they bound the oracle by means of its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord.

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30That way it would be above the intricately woven band of the ephod, and the breastplate would not rip away from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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31He made the undergarment of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

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32The collar of the undergarment was plaited and interwoven, having a border all around that it would not tear.

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33Beneath the border of the robe there were knobs of flowering pomegranate, constructed of blue, purple, spun scarlet, and fine twined linen.

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34Then they made bells of pure gold and put the bells on the hem of the robe all around between the pomegranates.

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35The golden bells and pomegranates, all the hem of the robe, were for the ministry, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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36They made fine linen robes, woven work, for Aaron and his sons, and belts of fine linen, and turbans of fine linen, short trousers of fine linen,

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37and their sashes of fine woven linen, blue, purple, spun scarlet, made by a weaver according as the Lord commanded Moses.

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38Then they made the plate of gold, a dedicated thing of the holy place, of pure gold, and on it he wrote an inscription like the engraving of a signet: Holiness to the Lord.

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39And they tied a blue cord to it to fasten it above on the turban, in the manner the Lord commanded Moses.

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