Exodus 36
New English Translation
36 1 So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person[a] in whom the Lord has put skill[b] and ability[c] to know how[d] to do all the work for the service[e] of the sanctuary are to do the work[f] according to all that the Lord has commanded.”
2 Moses summoned[g] Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom[h] the Lord had put skill—everyone whose heart stirred him[i] to volunteer[j] to do the work. 3 They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to do[k] the work for the service of the sanctuary, and they still continued to bring him a freewill offering each morning.[l] 4 So all the skilled people who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came from the work[m] they were doing 5 and told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than[n] is needed for the completion[o] of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!”[p]
6 Moses instructed them to take[q] his message[r] throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do anymore work for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more.[s] 7 Now the materials were more than enough[t] for them to do all the work.[u]
The Building of the Tabernacle
8 All the skilled among those who were doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarn; they were made with cherubim that were the work of an artistic designer. 9 The length of one curtain was 42 feet, and the width of one curtain was 6 feet—the same size for each of the curtains. 10 He joined[v] five of the curtains to one another, and the other[w] five curtains he joined to one another. 11 He made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in the first set; he did the same along the edge of the end curtain in the second set. 12 He made fifty loops on the first curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end curtain that was in the second set, with the loops opposite one another. 13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit.[x]
14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.[y] 15 The length of one curtain was 45 feet, and the width of one curtain was 6 feet—one size for all eleven curtains. 16 He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. 17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joined the second set. 18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit.[z] 19 He made a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.[aa]
20 He made the frames[ab] for the tabernacle of acacia wood[ac] as uprights.[ad] 21 The length of each[ae] frame was 15 feet, the width of each[af] frame was 2¼ feet, 22 with[ag] two projections per frame parallel one to another.[ah] He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 23 So he made frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side. 24 He made forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise[ai] two bases under the next frame for its two projections, 25 and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames 26 and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next[aj] frame. 27 And for the back of the tabernacle on the west he made six frames. 28 He made two frames for the corners of the tabernacle on the back. 29 At the two corners[ak] they were doubled at the lower end and[al] finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both. 30 So there were eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under each frame.
31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle 32 and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle for the back side on the west. 33 He made the middle bar to reach from end to end in the center of the frames. 34 He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places[am] for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.
35 He made the special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; he made[an] it with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer. 36 He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks,[ao] and he cast for them four silver bases.
37 He made a hanging for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, 38 and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops[ap] and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze.[aq]
Footnotes
- Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “wise of [in] heart.”
- Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “wisdom.”
- Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “understanding, discernment.”
- Exodus 36:1 tn The relative clause includes this infinitive clause that expresses either the purpose or the result of God’s giving wisdom and understanding to these folk.
- Exodus 36:1 tn This noun is usually given an interpretive translation. B. Jacob renders the bound relationship as “the holy task” or “the sacred task” (Exodus, 1019). The NIV makes it “constructing,” so read “the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
- Exodus 36:1 tn The first word of the verse is a perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it is singular because it agrees with the first of the compound subject. The sentence is a little cumbersome because of the extended relative clause in the middle.
- Exodus 36:2 tn The verb קָרָא (qaraʾ) plus the preposition “to”—“to call to” someone means “to summon” that person.
- Exodus 36:2 tn Here there is a slight change: “in whose heart Yahweh had put skill.”
- Exodus 36:2 tn Or “whose heart was willing.”
- Exodus 36:2 sn The verb means more than “approach” or “draw near”; קָרַב (qarav) is the word used for drawing near the altar as in bringing an offering. Here they offer themselves, their talents and their time.
- Exodus 36:3 tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive “to do it” comes after “sanctuary”; it makes a smoother rendering in English to move it forward, rather than reading “brought for the work.”
- Exodus 36:3 tn Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”
- Exodus 36:4 tn Heb “a man, a man from his work”; or “each one from his work.”
- Exodus 36:5 tn The construction uses the verbal hendiadys: מַרְבִּים לְהָבִיא (marbim lehaviʾ) is the Hiphil participle followed (after the subject) by the Hiphil infinitive construct. It would read, “they multiply…to bring,” meaning, “they bring more” than is needed.
- Exodus 36:5 tn Heb “for the service” (so KJV, ASV).
- Exodus 36:5 tn The last clause is merely the infinitive with an object—“to do it.” It clearly means the skilled workers are to do it.
- Exodus 36:6 tn The verse simply reads, “and Moses commanded and they caused [a voice] to cross over in the camp.” The second preterite with the vav may be subordinated to the first clause, giving the intent (purpose or result).
- Exodus 36:6 tn Heb “voice.”
- Exodus 36:6 tn The verse ends with the infinitive serving as the object of the preposition: “from bringing.”
- Exodus 36:7 tn This part of the sentence comes from the final verb, the Hiphil infinitive—leave over, meaning, have more than enough (see BDB 451 s.v. יָתַר).
- Exodus 36:7 tn Heb “for all the work, to do it.”sn This lengthy section (35:1-36:7) forms one of the most remarkable sections in the book. Here there is a mixture of God’s preparation of people to do the work and their willingness to give and to serve. It not only provides insight into this renewed community of believers, but it also provides a timeless message for the church. The point is clear enough: In response to God’s commission, and inspired by God’s Spirit, the faithful and willing people rally to support and participate in the Lord’s work.
- Exodus 36:10 tn The verb is singular since it probably is referring to Bezalel, but since he would not do all the work himself, it may be that the verbs could be given a plural subject: “they joined.”
- Exodus 36:10 tn The words “the other” have been supplied.
- Exodus 36:13 tn Heb “one.”
- Exodus 36:14 tn Heb “eleven curtains he made them.”
- Exodus 36:18 tn The construction uses the infinitive construct from the verb “to be” to express this purpose clause: “to be one,” or, “so that it might be a unit.”
- Exodus 36:19 tn See the note on this phrase in Exod 25:5.
- Exodus 36:20 tn There is debate whether the word הַקְּרָשִׁים (haqqerashim) means “boards” or “frames” or “planks” (see Ezek 27:6) or “beams,” given the size of them. The literature on this includes M. Haran, “The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle,” HUCA 36 (1965): 192; B. A. Levine, “The Description of the Tabernacle Texts of the Pentateuch,” JAOS 85 (1965): 307-18; J. Morgenstern, “The Ark, the Ephod, and the Tent,” HUCA 17 (1942/43): 153-265; 18 (1943/44): 1-52.
- Exodus 36:20 tn “Wood” is an adverbial accusative.
- Exodus 36:20 tn The plural participle “standing” refers to how these items will be situated; they will be vertical rather than horizontal (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 354).
- Exodus 36:21 tn Heb “the frame.”
- Exodus 36:21 tn Heb “the one.”
- Exodus 36:22 tn Heb “two hands to the one frame.”
- Exodus 36:22 tn Heb “joined one to one.”
- Exodus 36:24 tn The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”
- Exodus 36:26 tn Heb “under the one frame” again.
- Exodus 36:29 tn This is the last phrase of the verse, moved forward for clarity.
- Exodus 36:29 tn This difficult verse uses the perfect tense at the beginning, and the second clause parallels it with יִהְיוּ (yihyu), which has to be taken here as a preterite without the consecutive vav (ו). The predicate “finished” or “completed” is the word תָּמִּים (tammim); it normally means “complete, sound, whole,” and related words describe the sacrifices as without blemish.
- Exodus 36:34 tn Literally “houses”; i.e., places to hold the bars.
- Exodus 36:35 tn The verb is simply “he made” but as in Exod 26:31 it probably means that the cherubim were worked into the curtain with the yarn, and so embroidered on the curtain.
- Exodus 36:36 tn Heb “and their hooks gold.”
- Exodus 36:38 tn The word is “their heads”; technically it would be “their capitals” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV). The bands were bands of metal surrounding these capitals just beneath them. These are not mentioned in Exod 26:37, and it sounds like the posts are to be covered with gold. But the gradation of metals is what is intended: the posts at the entrance to the Most Holy Place are all of gold; the posts at the entrance to the tent are overlaid with gold at the top; and the posts at the entrance to the courtyard are overlaid with silver at the top (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 387, citing Dillmann without reference).
- Exodus 36:38 sn For a good summary of the differences between the instruction section and the completion section, and the reasons for the changes and the omissions, see B. Jacob, Exodus, 1022-23.
Exodus 36
Modern English Version
36 So Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skilled person, in whom the Lord has put skill and understanding to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, are to do the work according to all that the Lord has commanded.
2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom the Lord had put wisdom, everyone whose heart stirred him to come to the work to do it. 3 They received from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had brought to do the work of the service of the sanctuary, and they continued to bring to him freewill offerings every morning. 4 And all the skilled men who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came from the work they were doing, 5 and they said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than is needed for the service of the work which the Lord commanded us to do.”
6 So Moses issued a command, and they circulated a proclamation throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more. 7 For the material they had was sufficient for all the work and more than enough to do it.
Construction of the Tabernacle(A)
8 Every skilled man among those who were doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim that were the work of skillful workmen. 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits.[a] All of the curtains were the same size. 10 He joined the five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one to another. 11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. He did likewise along the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. 12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain and made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another. 13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit.
14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains in all. 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain was four cubits.[b] The eleven curtains were all the same size. 16 He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. 17 He made fifty loops on the outermost edge of the curtain in the first set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which joined the second set. 18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together, so that it would be one unit. 19 He made a covering for the tent out of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.
20 Then he made boards for the tabernacle out of acacia wood, standing upright. 21 The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width of each board was one and a half cubits.[c] 22 Each board had two tenons, equally distant from each other. He did this for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 He made boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side. 24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 25 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 For the back of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. 28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the back. 29 They were doubled beneath and joined together at the top in one ring. He did this with both of them in both the corners. 30 There were eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two under every board.
31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of 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 back to the west. 33 He made the middle bar to pass through the boards from the one end to the other. 34 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 He made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. He made cherubim, the work of a skillful designer. 36 He made four pillars of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold with their hooks of gold, and he cast four sockets of silver for them. 37 He made a hanging for the tabernacle entrance of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. 38 And he made its five pillars with their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold, but their five sockets were of bronze.
Footnotes
- Exodus 36:9 About 42 feet long and 6 feet wide, or 13 meters long and 1.8 meters wide.
- Exodus 36:15 About 45 feet long and 6 feet wide, or 14 meters long and 1.8 meters wide.
- Exodus 36:21 About 15 feet long and 2¼ feet wide, or 4.5 meters long and 68 centimeters wide.
Exodus 36
BasisBijbel
Het werk begint
36 Toen maakten Bezaleël en Aholiab alle dingen voor het heiligdom, samen met de andere mannen die de Heer had uitgekozen. Ze maakten alles zoals de Heer het bevolen had. De Heer gaf hun de wijsheid, het verstand en de kennis om alles te maken. 2 Want Mozes had Bezaleël en Aholiab aangewezen om alle dingen voor het heiligdom te maken. Ze werden daarbij geholpen door alle vakmensen aan wie de Heer daarvoor wijsheid en inzicht had gegeven. Zij wilden graag komen helpen. 3 Mozes bracht hun alles wat het volk had gegeven. Elke morgen kwamen de mensen geschenken naar Mozes brengen. 4 Tenslotte gingen de vakmensen die het werk voor het heiligdom maakten naar Mozes en zeiden: 5 "De mensen brengen méér dan nodig is om alles te maken wat de Heer heeft bevolen." 6 Toen liet Mozes in het tentenkamp omroepen: "Niemand hoeft nog geschenken te brengen voor het heiligdom." Zo werd het volk tegengehouden om nog meer te brengen. 7 Want er was genoeg materiaal om alles te maken. Er was zelfs te veel.
Het maken van de tent
8 Toen maakten ze de tent van tien tentkleden van blauwe, paarse en rode stof en fijn linnen, met prachtig ingeweven engelen. 9 Elk tentkleed was 28 el (12½ m) lang en 4 el (1,8 m) breed. Alle tentkleden waren even groot. 10 Ze maakten vijf van de tentkleden aan elkaar. Ook de andere vijf kleden maakten ze aan elkaar. 11 Ze maakten blauwe lussen aan de rand aan het laatste kleed van de vijf tentkleden die aan elkaar genaaid waren. Hetzelfde deden ze aan de rand van het laatste kleed van de andere vijf tentkleden die aan elkaar genaaid waren. 12 Zo maakten ze 50 lussen aan het eind van het laatste tentkleed van het ene stel tentkleden en 50 lussen aan het eind van het laatste tentkleed van het andere stel tentkleden. Ze deden het zó, dat de lussen van het ene stel recht tegenover de lussen van het andere stel kwamen. 13 Ze maakten 50 gouden haakjes, staken ze in de lussen en haakten daarmee de tentkleden aan elkaar vast. Zo werden de tentkleden samen één tent.
14 Ze maakten ook tentkleden van geitenhaar. Die werden een tent over de eerste tent. Elf tentkleden maakten ze. 15 Elk tentkleed was 30 el (13½ m) lang en 4 el (1,8 m) breed. Alle elf tentkleden waren even groot. 16 Ze maakten vijf van de tentkleden aan elkaar en de zes andere tentkleden maakten ze aan elkaar. 17 Ze maakten 50 lussen aan de rand van het laatste tentkleed van het ene stel en 50 lussen aan de rand van het laatste tentkleed van het andere stel. 18 Ze maakten 50 koperen haakjes, staken ze in de lussen en haakten daarmee de tentkleden aan elkaar vast. Zo werden de tentkleden één geheel.
19 Ook maakten ze van roodgeverfde schapenvachten een dekkleed voor de tent en daaroverheen een dekkleed van dun leer.
20 Ze maakten van acaciahout rechtopstaande planken voor de wanden van de tent. 21 Elke plank was 10 el (4½ m) lang en 1½ el (68 cm) breed. 22 Elke plank had twee koppelstukken waarmee de planken aan elkaar vastgemaakt konden worden. 23 Ze maakten 20 planken voor de zuidkant van de tent. 24 Onder die 20 planken maakten ze 40 zilveren voetstukken. Dus twee voetstukken onder elke plank. Daarin pasten de koppelstukken. 25 Ook voor de andere kant van de tent, de noordkant, maakten ze 20 planken 26 met 40 zilveren voetstukken: twee voetstukken onder elke plank. 27 Voor de achterkant van de tent, aan de westkant, maakten ze zes planken. 28 Voor de hoeken aan de achterkant van de tent maakten ze twee dubbele planken. 29 Van onder tot boven waren die planken precies gelijk. Ze werden bovenaan met één ring aan elkaar vastgemaakt. Deze twee dubbele planken vormden de hoeken. 30 Er waren aan de achterkant dus acht planken met zilveren voetstukken. Telkens twee voetstukken onder elke plank, dus 16 voetstukken.
31 Ze maakten dwarsbalken van acaciahout. Vijf dwarsbalken voor de planken aan de ene zijkant van de tent, 32 vijf dwarsbalken voor de planken aan de andere zijkant van de tent en vijf dwarsbalken voor de planken aan de achterkant van de tent, aan de westkant. 33 Ze maakten de middelste dwarsbalken halverwege de planken vast. De dwarsbalken liepen helemaal van de ene kant van de tent naar de andere kant van de tent. 34 De planken werden met goud bedekt. Ze maakten gouden ringen waarmee de dwarsbalken aan de planken werden vastgemaakt. Ook de dwarsbalken werden met goud bedekt.
35 Ze weefden een gordijn van blauw, paars en rood draad en fijn linnen, met prachtige ingeweven engelen. 36 Ze maakten vier palen van acaciahout om het gordijn aan op te hangen en bedekten die palen met goud. Om de gordijnen op te hangen maakten ze gouden haakjes. Voor de palen maakten ze vier zilveren voetstukken.
37 Ze weefden een gordijn voor de ingang van de tent van blauw, paars en rood draad en fijn linnen. Het werd een kleurig geweven stof. 38 Ze maakten vijf palen van acaciahout om het gordijn aan op te hangen en vijf gouden haakjes. De toppen van de palen en de dwarsbalken werden met goud bedekt. De vijf palen hadden voetstukken van koper.
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