Preparing to build the dwelling

⁴ Moses said to the whole Israelite community, This is what the Lord has commanded: ⁵ Collect gift offerings for the Lord from all of you. Whoever freely wants to give should bring the Lord’s gift offerings: gold, silver, and copper; ⁶ blue, purple, and deep red yarns; fine linen; goats’ hair; ⁷ rams’ skins dyed red; beaded leather;^[a] acacia wood; ⁸ the oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense; ⁹ gemstones; and gems for setting in the priest’s vest^[b] and in the priest’s chest pendant.

¹⁰ All of you who are skilled in crafts should come forward and make everything that the Lord has commanded: ¹¹ the dwelling, its tent and its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its posts, and its bases, ¹² the chest with its poles and its cover, the veil for a screen, ¹³ the table with its poles and all its equipment, the bread of the presence, ¹⁴ the lampstand for light with its equipment and its lamps, the oil for the light, ¹⁵ the incense altar with its poles, the anointing oil and the sweet-smelling incense, the entrance screen for the dwelling’s entrance, ¹⁶ the altar for entirely burned offerings with its copper grate, its poles, and all its equipment, the washbasin with its stand, ¹⁷ the courtyard’s drapes, its posts, and its bases, and the screen for the courtyard gate, ¹⁸ the dwelling’s tent pegs and the courtyard’s tent pegs, and their cords, ¹⁹ the woven clothing for ministering in the sanctuary, and the holy clothes for Aaron the priest and his sons for their service as priests.

Gifts for building the dwelling

²⁰ The whole Israelite community left Moses. ²¹ Everyone who was excited and eager to participate brought the Lord’s gift offerings to be used for building the meeting tent and all its furnishings and for the holy clothes. ²² Both men and women came forward. Everyone who was eager to participate brought pins, earrings, rings, and necklaces, all sorts of gold objects. Everyone raised an uplifted offering of gold to the Lord. ²³ And everyone who had blue or purple or deep red yarn or fine linen or goats’ hair or rams’ skins dyed red or beaded leather brought them. ²⁴ Everyone who could make a gift offering of silver or copper brought it as the Lord’s gift offering. Everyone who had acacia wood that could be used in any kind of building work brought it. ²⁵ All the skilled women spun cloth with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and deep red yarns and fine linen. ²⁶ All the women who were eager to use their skill spun the goats’ hair. ²⁷ The chiefs brought gemstones and gems to be set in the priest’s vest and the chest pendant, ²⁸ spices and oil for light and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet-smelling incense. ²⁹ All the Israelite men and women who were eager to contribute something for the work that the Lord had commanded Moses to do brought it as a spontaneous gift to the Lord.