The Work Begins

Bezalel and Oholiab came to do the work. So did every person God had made skillful. Moses gave them the gifts the people had brought. But the people kept bringing more gifts every morning.

All the wise men who were doing the work came to Moses. They said, The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make. So Moses gave an order. It was announced in the camp: Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary. So the people were held back from bringing. What they had was enough for all the work, and too much.

The workers made ten curtains of fine linen. They used blue, purple and red yarn and sewed cherubim into them. They made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle. They made covers of skins. They made wood frames covered with gold. The frames stood on silver bases. They also made the veil with cherubim. It hung on four gold-covered pillars.