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"For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,

and onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

the lampstand also for the light and its utensils and its lamps and the oil for the light;

and the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle;

the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

the woven garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.'"

Everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit moved him came and brought the LORD'S contribution for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.

Everyone who could make a contribution of silver and bronze brought the LORD'S contribution; and every man who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastpiece;

and the spice and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

The Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart moved them to bring material for all the work, which the LORD had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a freewill offering to the LORD.

to make designs for working in gold and in silver and in bronze,

and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to perform in every inventive work.

and they said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the LORD commanded us to perform."

So Moses issued a command, and a proclamation was circulated throughout the camp, saying, "Let no man or woman any longer perform work for the contributions of the sanctuary." Thus the people were restrained from bringing any more.

For the material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to perform it.

Then he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.

He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of porpoise skins above.

Then he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.