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Exodus 35:21-31 Common English Bible (CEB)

21. Everyone who was excited and eager to participate brought the Lord’s gift offerings to be used for building the meeting tent and all its furnishings and for the holy clothes.

22. Both men and women came forward. Everyone who was eager to participate brought pins, earrings, rings, and necklaces, all sorts of gold objects. Everyone raised an uplifted offering of gold to the Lord.

23. And everyone who had blue or purple or deep red yarn or fine linen or goats’ hair or rams’ skins dyed red or beaded leather brought them.

24. Everyone who could make a gift offering of silver or copper brought it as the Lord’s gift offering. Everyone who had acacia wood that could be used in any kind of building work brought it.

25. All the skilled women spun cloth with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and deep red yarns and fine linen.

26. All the women who were eager to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.

27. The chiefs brought gemstones and gems to be set in the priest’s vest and the chest pendant,

28. spices and oil for light and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet-smelling incense.

29. All the Israelite men and women who were eager to contribute something for the work that the Lord had commanded Moses to do brought it as a spontaneous gift to the Lord.

30. Then Moses said to the Israelites: “Look, the Lord has chosen Bezalel, Uri’s son and Hur’s grandson from the tribe of Judah.

31. The Lord has filled him with the divine spirit that will give him skill, ability, and knowledge for every kind of work.

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