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in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.

And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,

and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do."

So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing,

for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains.

And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins.

Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.

The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side.

And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons.

For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames

For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.

He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.

And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners.

He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,

and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.

He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework,