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And it came to pass that Moses said unto Israel: See, YHVHa hath called by name Bezaleelb, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
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And YHVH hath filled him with the Breath of Elohima, in knowledge and in wisdom, giving him understanding in all manner of workmanship,
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To devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning works.
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And YHVH hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
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These hath YHVH filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, of the embroiderer and of the cunning workman;
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In bluea, and in purpleb, in scarletc, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work.
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And thus was it said that Bezaleel knew the means by which to join the heavens and the earth, for the malakima had shown unto him how all things were created and thus he was skilled in the craftd.
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¶ And it came to pass that Bezaleel called upon Aholiab, and they upon every wisehearteda man, in whom YHVH put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that YHVH had instructed;
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And they received of Moses all the offering which Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal.
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¶ And it came to pass that the people brought yet more free offerings continually, day after day, morning after morning.
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And all the wise mena that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came, everyone from their work which they made;
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And they spake unto Moses, saying: The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which YHVH instructed to make!
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And Moses sent out a commandmenta, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying: Let neither man nor woman make anymore work for the offering of the sanctuary.
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And it came to pass that the people were restrained from bringing; for the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
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¶ And it came to pass that every wise-hearted person among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet; with cherubima of cunning work made they them; the curtains were all of one size.
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And they coupled the five curtains one unto another; and the other five curtains they coupled one unto another.
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And they made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the woven edge in the coupling; likewise, they made in the uttermost side of another curtain in the coupling of the second.
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Fifty loops made they in one curtain, and fifty loops made they in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second; the loops held one curtain to another.
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And they made fifty tachesa of gold and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches, so it became one tabernacle.
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And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains they made them.
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And they made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made they upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
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And they made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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And they made a covering for the tent of the skins of rams dyed red and a covering of the skins of badgers above that.
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And they made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up; one board had two tenons equally distant one from another; thus did they make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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And they made boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward; and forty sockets of silver they made under the twenty boards—two sockets under one board for his two tenons and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
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And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, they made twenty boards, and their forty sockets of silver—two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.
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And for the sides of the tabernacle westward they made six boards; and two boards made they for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
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And they were coupled beneath and coupled together at the head thereof to one ring; thus they did to both of them in both the corners.
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And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets, and they made bars of shittim wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle.
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And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle, for the sides westward; and they made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
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And they overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
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And they made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim made they it of cunning work.
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And they made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and they cast for them four sockets of silver.
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And they made a hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework, and the five pillars of it with their hooks;
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And they overlaid the tops of the pillars and their fillets with gold; but their five sockets were of brass.