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So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me." And all the Levites gathered around him.

Afterward, Moses said, "Today you have been ordained for service to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother; so He has bestowed a blessing on you this day."

So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Oh, what a great sin these people have committed; they have made gods of gold for themselves.

So the Israelites remained stripped of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

So Moses chiseled two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he ascended Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant-the Ten Commandments.

But Moses called out to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.

and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.

So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.

So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person are to carry out everything commanded by the LORD, who has given them skill and understanding to know how to perform all the work of constructing the sanctuary."

so that all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work

After Moses had given an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: "No man or woman should make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing more,

He made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops lined up opposite one another.

He also made fifty gold clasps to join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases-two under each frame.

He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.

Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.

The bases for the posts were bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.