Exode 36
Louis Segond
36 Betsaleel, Oholiab, et tous les hommes habiles, en qui l'Éternel avait mis de la sagesse et de l'intelligence pour savoir et pour faire, exécutèrent les ouvrages destinés au service du sanctuaire, selon tout ce que l'Éternel avait ordonné.
2 Moïse appela Betsaleel, Oholiab, et tous les hommes habiles dans l'esprit desquels l'Éternel avait mis de l'intelligence, tous ceux dont le coeur était disposé à s'appliquer à l'oeuvre pour l'exécuter.
3 Ils prirent devant Moïse toutes les offrandes qu'avaient apportées les enfants d'Israël pour faire les ouvrages destinés au service du sanctuaire. Chaque matin, on apportait encore à Moïse des offrandes volontaires.
4 Alors tous les hommes habiles, occupés à tous les travaux du sanctuaire, quittèrent chacun l'ouvrage qu'ils faisaient,
5 et vinrent dire à Moïse: Le peuple apporte beaucoup plus qu'il ne faut pour exécuter les ouvrages que l'Éternel a ordonné de faire.
6 Moïse fit publier dans le camp que personne, homme ou femme, ne s'occupât plus d'offrandes pour le sanctuaire. On empêcha ainsi le peuple d'en apporter.
7 Les objets préparés suffisaient, et au delà, pour tous les ouvrages à faire.
8 Tous les hommes habiles, qui travaillèrent à l'oeuvre, firent le tabernacle avec dix tapis de fin lin retors et de fil bleu, pourpre et cramoisi; on y représenta des chérubins artistement travaillés.
9 La longueur d'un tapis était de vingt-huit coudées; et la largeur d'un tapis était de quatre coudées; la mesure était la même pour tous les tapis.
10 Cinq de ces tapis furent joints ensemble; les cinq autres furent aussi joints ensemble.
11 On fit des lacets bleus au bord du tapis terminant le premier assemblage; on fit de même au bord du tapis terminant le second assemblage.
12 On mit cinquante lacets au premier tapis, et l'on mit cinquante lacets au bord du tapis terminant le second assemblage; ces lacets se correspondaient les uns aux autres.
13 On fit cinquante agrafes d'or, et l'on joignit les tapis l'un à l'autre avec les agrafes. Et le tabernacle forma un tout.
14 On fit des tapis de poil de chèvre, pour servir de tente sur le tabernacle; on fit onze de ces tapis.
15 La longueur d'un tapis était de trente coudées, et la largeur d'un tapis était de quatre coudées; la mesure était la même pour les onze tapis.
16 On joignit séparément cinq de ces tapis, et les six autres séparément.
17 On mit cinquante lacets au bord du tapis terminant un assemblage, et l'on mit cinquante lacets au bord du tapis du second assemblage.
18 On fit cinquante agrafes d'airain, pour assembler la tente, afin qu'elle formât un tout.
19 On fit pour la tente une couverture de peaux de béliers teintes en rouge, et une couverture de peaux de dauphins, qui devait être mise par-dessus.
20 On fit les planches pour le tabernacle; elles étaient de bois d'acacia, placées debout.
21 La longueur d'une planche était de dix coudées, et la largeur d'une planche était d'une coudée et demie.
22 Il y avait pour chaque planche deux tenons, joints l'un à l'autre; l'on fit de même pour toutes les planches du tabernacle.
23 On fit vingt planches pour le tabernacle, du côté du midi.
24 On mit quarante bases d'argent sous les vingt planches, deux bases sous chaque planche pour ses deux tenons.
25 On fit vingt planches pour le second côté du tabernacle, le côté du nord,
26 et leur quarante bases d'argent, deux bases sous chaque planche.
27 On fit six planches pour le fond du tabernacle, du côté de l'occident.
28 On fit deux planches pour les angles du tabernacle dans le fond;
29 elles étaient doubles depuis le bas et bien liées à leur sommet par un anneau; on fit de même pour toutes aux deux angles.
30 Il y avait ainsi huit planches, avec leurs bases d'argent, soit seize bases, deux bases sous chaque planche.
31 On fit cinq barres de bois d'acacia pour les planches de l'un des côtés du tabernacle,
32 cinq barres pour les planches du second côté du tabernacle, et cinq barres pour les planches du côté du tabernacle formant le fond vers l'occident;
33 on fit la barre du milieu pour traverser les planches d'une extrémité à l'autre.
34 On couvrit d'or les planches, et l'on fit d'or leurs anneaux pour recevoir les barres, et l'on couvrit d'or les barres.
35 On fit le voile de fil bleu, pourpre et cramoisi, et de fin lin retors; on le fit artistement travaillé, et l'on y représenta des chérubins.
36 On fit pour lui quatre colonnes d'acacia, et on les couvrit d'or; elles avaient des crochets d'or, et l'on fondit pour elles quatre bases d'argent.
37 On fit pour l'entrée de la tente un rideau de fil bleu, pourpre et cramoisi, et de fin lin retors; c'était un ouvrage de broderie.
38 On fit ses cinq colonnes et leurs crochets, et l'on couvrit d'or leurs chapiteaux et leurs tringles; leurs cinq bases étaient d'airain.
Exodus 36
The Voice
Two skilled craftsmen are given special mention in this work of the people. They are called to transform the abundant gifts the people freely provide into the congregation tent and its furnishings. It is God who gifts the hearts and hands of these two individuals and further inspires them to teach others. Of all the women and men who lend their expertise to this project, only Bezalel and Oholiab are recorded. Until Solomon’s temple is built in Jerusalem, their handiwork will be admired by all of Israel as the house of the Eternal One.
36 Moses: Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person whom the Eternal One has gifted with expertise and wisdom in order to build the sanctuary shall use these gifts as the Eternal One has directed.
2 Moses called together Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person whom the Eternal had gifted with special skills—everyone whose heart moved them to work—to help out and contribute to the construction work.
This project is nothing like the forced labor the people endured back in Egypt. All the creativity and work put into the building and furnishing of the congregation tent comes from the heart. People with various skills—skills honed in slavery—step forward as free men and women to create a home on earth for God. Ultimately all talent and skill comes from God. Used properly they all point back to God.
3 Moses handed over to the workers all the materials the Israelites donated to build the congregation tent. Every morning new contributions continued to come in. 4 Eventually the craftsmen who were working on every aspect of the sanctuary project interrupted their particular jobs 5 and reported to Moses.
Workers: The people are bringing far more than we need to complete the work which the Eternal One has instructed us to do.
6 So Moses issued a new directive, and it spread quickly throughout the camp.
Moses: We do not need any more contributions to complete the congregation tent. We have more than enough.
With that the people stopped bringing contributions, 7 for the material already on hand was more than enough to construct, furnish, and decorate the sanctuary.
8 All the craftsmen made 10 curtains out of finely woven linen for the congregation tent. Using blue, purple, and scarlet thread, Bezalel had skilled workers embroider images of the winged guardians on the curtains.[a] 9 Each curtain was 42 feet long and 6 feet wide. All 10 curtains were identical in size and shape. 10 Bezalel had his craftsmen connect five curtains together to make one large panel; then they connected the other five curtains to make a second. 11-12 He had 50 blue loops made and attached along the edge of the outer curtain of the first panel, and then did the same thing on the edge of the outer curtain of the second. He made sure the loops matched up with each other. 13 He also had 50 clasps fashioned from gold and used them to join the curtains together, so that the interior of the congregation tent formed one continuous piece.
14 He then had 11 panels of tent fabric made out of goat hair to use as a covering for the interior of the congregation tent. 15 Each panel was 45 feet long and 6 feet wide. All 11 of the panels were identical in size and shape. 16 He joined five panels together to form one large panel and then did the same with the remaining six to form a second large panel. 17 He had 50 loops made and attached along the edge of the outer panel of each set. 18 Then he had 50 clasps fashioned from bronze and used them to connect the panels together, so that they formed one continuous piece. 19 He then covered the goat hair panels with a layer of red-dyed rams’ skins and covered that with a layer made from sea-cow hides.
20 Bezalel then had his workers construct the supporting frame panels for the congregation tent out of acacia wood. 21 Each panel was 15 feet high and 27 inches wide. 22 He had them carve two tenons on each panel to fit into the next. They made all the panels this way. 23 This is how they made all the panels for the congregation tent: he made 20 panels for the southern end 24 and set them into 40 bases made of silver—two bases beneath each panel. 25 He made 20 panels for the northern end as well 26 and set them into 40 silver bases beneath the 20 panels—two bases beneath each framing panel.
27 At the back wall of the congregation tent (the side that faces west), he made six panels. 28 He also made two special panels to support each corner on the back of the tent. 29 They came together with the side panels at the bottom to make a strong corner and attached at the top of the first ring. He did the same thing at both corners. 30 On the back wall, there were eight frame panels with silver bases—16 bases in all—two beneath each panel.
31 He then made crossbars of acacia wood, five to connect the frame panels on one side of the congregation tent, 32 five more to connect the panels on the other side, and five more to connect the panels at the back, the side that faces west. 33 He ran one bar in the center from corner to corner, halfway up the panels. 34 He overlaid the panels with gold and fashioned gold rings to hold the crossbars, and he overlaid the crossbars with gold as well.
35 Bezalel had his skilled workers make the veil by embroidering finely woven linen with images of winged guardians in blue, purple, and scarlet thread. 36 To hold up the veil, he erected four acacia wood posts that were overlaid with gold onto four silver bases. He fashioned gold hooks for them. 37 For the entrance to the tent, he made a fabric screen out of finely woven linen richly embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet thread. 38 He hung it on five posts using hooks overlaid with gold. The posts were set into four bases made of bronze.
Footnotes
- 36:8 The Hebrew switches from plural to singular, and with other references it is clear that Bezalel is supervising the craftsmen who are executing the design.
Exodus 36
King James Version
36 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the Lord commanded to make.
6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
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