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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.

to create designs for working in gold, 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 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.

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.

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

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

There were two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; he did this to all the boards of the tabernacle.

So he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;

and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,

And for the back of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six boards.

He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the back.

They were double beneath, and together they were complete to its top, to the first ring; he did this with both of them for the two corners.

Then he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the back side to the west.

Then he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

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