Exodus 36

Exodus 36:1 “Bezalel and Oholiab should work in accordance with all that Yahveh has commanded along with every craftsman in whom Yahveh has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary.”

Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind Yahveh had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.

Exodus 36:3 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,

Exodus 36:4 so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing,

Exodus 36:5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that Yahveh has commanded us to do.”

Exodus 36:6 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 held back from bringing,

Exodus 36:7 because the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

Exodus 36:8 And all the experts among the workers constructed the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubs woven in by a designer.

Exodus 36:9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.

Exodus 36:10 He joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another.

Exodus 36:11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise, he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.

Exodus 36:12 He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another.

Exodus 36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains one to the other with clasps. So, the tabernacle was a single whole.

Exodus 36:14 He also made curtains of she-goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains.

Exodus 36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size.

Exodus 36:16 He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Exodus 36:17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.

Exodus 36:18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together that it might be a single whole.

Exodus 36:19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and male goatskin leather.

Exodus 36:20 Then he made the structure for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

Exodus 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

Exodus 36:22 Each board had two hand holds for fitting together. He did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Exodus 36:23 The boards for the tabernacle he made this way: twenty boards for the south side.

Exodus 36:24 Also he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two hand holds, and two bases under the next board for its two hand holds.

Exodus 36:25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards

Exodus 36:26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board and two bases under the next board.

Exodus 36:27 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

Exodus 36:28 He made two boards for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.

Exodus 36:29 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.

Exodus 36:30 There were eight boards with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every board two bases.

Exodus 36:31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

Exodus 36:33 And he made the middle bar run through it from end to end halfway up the boards.

Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold for houses for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Exodus 36:35 He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubs skillfully worked into it he made it.

Exodus 36:36 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.

Exodus 36:37 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,

Exodus 36:38 and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.

Exodus 36 quotes:

“The heart of these workers was full of wisdom. Wisdom is simply Christ (1 Cor. 1:30). To have wisdom is to have the ability to know and understand spiritual matters and to know how to carry out matters. Therefore, wisdom, strictly speaking, is Christ as the way. If you have Christ, you have the way to know matters, understand matters, and know how to do things. Christ is our way. We must have Christ and be filled with Christ.”

Lee, Witness. Spiritual Applications of the Tabernacle. Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 40.

“Moses literally stopped the offering. He told the people, ‘Stop giving! We have too much already. Even if we could receive more, we could never pos¬ sibly count it all or use it all.'”

Cameron, Barry L. Contagious Generosity : The Key to Continuous Blessing. HeartSpring Pub. Co., 2006. p. 136.

“Worship involves bringing a willing offering of our natural abilities, and when we have worked to polish and discipline them, God will put our talents to work for Him. He will also give us certain detailed instructions about where and how to use them. The details given in Exodus 36 were minute. It was absolutely clear where each talent needed to be used. Can you sew? Sew for Jesus. Can you landscape? Ask Him where, when, and how. What gift did you bring with you from Egypt to Canaan? Will you worship Jesus with it?”

Briscoe, Jill. Here Am I, Lord– Send Somebody Else: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things. W Pub. Group, 2004. p. 179.