And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone (A)whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.

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17 And say to (A)Archippus, “See that you fulfill (B)the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”

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And behold, I have appointed with him (A)Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men (B)ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

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And (A)no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, (B)just as Aaron was.

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23 And when they had (A)appointed (B)elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting (C)they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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(A)Therefore, brothers,[a] pick out from among you seven men (B)of good repute, (C)full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But (D)we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 6:3 Or brothers and sisters

and for all the work to be done by craftsmen, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating himself[a] today to the Lord?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 29:5 Or ordaining himself; Hebrew filling his hand

10 “Let (A)every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

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(A)Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

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You shall speak to all the (A)skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.

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(A)“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From (B)every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.

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21 And they came, (A)everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, (B)and brought the Lord's contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 22 So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord. 23 And (C)every one who possessed (D)blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats' hair or tanned rams' skins or goatskins brought them. 24 (E)Everyone who could make a contribution of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord's contribution. And every one who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it. 25 And every (F)skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 26 All the women (G)whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats' hair. 27 And the (H)leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, 28 and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. 29 (I)All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord.

Construction of the Tabernacle

30 (J)Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31 and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with (K)skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, 32 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, 33 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. 34 And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. 35 He has (L)filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

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