1. Moses assembled the entire Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:
2. For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on it must be executed.
3. Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”
4. Then Moses said to the entire Israelite community, “This is what the Lord has commanded:
5. Take up an offering among you for the Lord. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;
6. blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
7. ram skins dyed red and manatee skins; acacia wood;
8. oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
9. and onyx with gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece.
10. “Let all the skilled craftsmen among you come and make everything that the Lord has commanded:
11. the tabernacle — its tent and covering, its clasps and planks, its crossbars, its posts and bases;