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the incense altar with its poles; the anointing oil; the fragrant incense; the screen for the entranceway at the entrance to the tabernacle;

the altar for burnt offerings, with its poles and all its utensils; the basin with its base;

the tapestries for the courtyard, with their posts and sockets; the screen for the gateway of the courtyard;

the tent pegs for the tabernacle; the tent pegs for the courtyard, with their ropes;

the garments for officiating, for serving in the Holy Place; and the holy garments for Aharon the cohen and the garments for his sons, so that they can serve in the office of cohen.'"

(LY: ii) and they came, everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit made him willing, and brought Adonai 's offering for the work on the tent of meeting, for the service in it and for the holy garments.

Everyone contributing silver or bronze brought his offering for Adonai , and everyone who had acacia-wood suitable for any of the work brought it.

The leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set, for the ritual vest and the breasplate;

the spices; and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

He has filled them with the skill needed for every kind of work, whether done by an artisan, a designer, an embroiderer using blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and fine linen, or a weaver — they have the skill for every kind of work and design.

"B'tzal'el and Oholi'av, along with all the craftsmen whom Adonai has endowed with the wisdom and skill necessary to carry out the work needed for the sanctuary, are to do exactly according to everything Adonai has ordered."

They received from Moshe all the offering which the people of Isra'el had brought for the work of building the sanctuary. But they still kept bringing voluntary offerings every morning,

until all the craftsmen doing the work for the sanctuary left the work they were involved with

So Moshe gave an order which was proclaimed throughout the camp: "Neither men nor women are to make any further efforts for the sanctuary offering." In this way, the people were restrained from making additional contributions.

For what they had already was not only sufficient for doing all the work, but too much!

He made a covering for the tent of tanned ram skins and an outer covering of fine leather.

(LY: v) He made the upright planks of acacia-wood for the tabernacle.

There were two projections on each plank, and the planks were joined one to another. This is how he made all the planks for the tabernacle.

He made the planks for the tabernacle as follows: twenty planks for the south side, facing southward.

He made forty silver sockets under the twenty planks, two sockets under one plank for its two projections and two sockets under another plank for its two projections.