1. Then Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to them, “These are the words which the Lord has commanded you to do:
2. Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
3. You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
4. And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying:
5. ‘Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord: gold, silver, and bronze;
6. blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats’ hair;
7. ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood;
8. oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense;
9. onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.
10. ‘All who are gifted artisans among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded:
11. the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;