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"For I will drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

"You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

"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.

"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

'Take from among you a contribution to the LORD; whoever is of a willing heart is to bring it as the LORD'S contribution: gold, silver, and bronze,

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

And all the women whose heart stirred with a skill spun the goats' hair.

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 voluntary offering to the LORD.

"He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver, of a designer, and of an embroiderer, in violet, purple, and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs.

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

All the skillful people among those who were performing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and violet, purple, and scarlet material, with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer, Bezalel made them.

He also made fifty clasps of gold, and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit.

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

He also made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together so that it would be a unit.

And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of fine leather above.

Ten cubits was the length of each board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

Moreover, he made the veil of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer.

He also made a curtain for the doorway of the tent, of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver;