1. “Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other workers to whom the Lord has given skill and understanding, who know how to make everything needed to build the sacred Tent, are to make everything just as the Lord has commanded.”
2. Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other skilled men to whom the Lord had given ability and who were willing to help, and Moses told them to start working.
3. They received from him all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for constructing the sacred Tent. But the people of Israel continued to bring Moses their offerings every morning.
4. Then the skilled men who were doing the work went
5. and reported to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the work which the Lord commanded to be done.”
6. So Moses sent a command throughout the camp that no one was to make any further contribution for the sacred Tent; so the people did not bring any more.
7. What had already been brought was more than enough to finish all the work.
8. The most skilled men among those doing the work made the Tent of the Lord's presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures.
9. Each piece was the same size, twelve metres long and two metres wide.
10. They sewed five of them together in one set and did the same with the other five.