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

They received from Moses all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for the construction of the sanctuary, to prepare it for service. And they continued to bring him freewill (voluntary) offerings every morning.

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

So Moses issued a command, and it was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let neither man nor woman do any more work for the sanctuary offering." So the people were restrained from bringing anything more;

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

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

He made a [third] covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and above it a [fourth] covering of porpoise skins.

Bezalel made boards of acacia wood for the upright framework of the tabernacle.

Each board had two tenons (dovetails), fitted to one another; he did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.

And [this is how] he made the boards [for frames] for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;

and he made under the twenty boards forty silver sockets; two sockets under one board for its two tenons (dovetails), and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards,

And for the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six [frame] boards.

And he made two boards for each corner of the tabernacle in the rear.

Bezalel made bars of acacia wood, five for the [frame] boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle's other side, and five bars for the boards at the rear side to the west.

He overlaid the boards and the bars with gold and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars.

For the veil (partition curtain) he made four support poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were gold, and he cast for them four silver sockets.

He made a screen (curtain) for the doorway of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer;

He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.