Provision of Skilled People

31 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² “See, I have called by name^[a] Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. ³ And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill^[b] and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship, ⁴ to devise designs, to work with gold and with silver and with bronze, ⁵ and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of craftsmanship. ⁶ And, look, I have given with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, and I have put skill in the heart of all the skilled of heart, and they will make all that I have commanded you— ⁷ the tent of assembly and the ark of the testimony and the atonement cover that is on it and all the equipment of the tent, ⁸ and the table and all its equipment, and the pure gold lampstand and all its equipment, and the incense altar, ⁹ and the altar of burnt offering and all its equipment, and the basin and its stand, ¹⁰ and the garments of woven material, and the garments of the sanctuary^[c] for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests, ¹¹ and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they will make it.

Provision of Rest from Work

¹² And Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, ¹³ “And you, speak to the Israelites,^[d] saying, ‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, in order to know that I am Yahweh, who consecrates you. ¹⁴ And you must keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you; defilers^[e] of it will surely be put to death, because anyone who does work on it—that person will be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵ On six days work can be done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of complete rest,^[f] a holy day^[g] for Yahweh; anyone doing work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death. ¹⁶ The Israelites^[h] will pay attention to the Sabbath in order to fulfill the Sabbath^[i] throughout their generations as a lasting covenant. ¹⁷ It is a sign between me and the Israelites^[j] forever, because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh he ceased^[k] and recovered.”^[l]

¹⁸ And when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of God.