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36 比撒列和亞何利亞伯,以及心裡有智慧的,就是蒙耶和華賜予智慧與聰明,使他們知道怎樣製造供聖所使用的一切工程的人,都照著耶和華吩咐的一切去作。

人民奉獻大量禮物

於是,摩西把比撒列和亞何利亞伯,以及心裡有智慧的,就是蒙耶和華賜他們心裡有智慧的人,凡是心裡受感要前來作這工的人,都召了來。 他們當著摩西面前,接收了以色列人為供聖所使用的工程帶來的一切禮物。他們天天早晨還把自願奉獻的禮物帶到摩西那裡來。 凡是作聖所一切工的智慧人,各人都放下自己所作的工,來了。 他們告訴摩西:“人民帶來的太多,超過耶和華吩咐所作工程使用的需要。” 於是摩西下令,他們就在營中宣告,說:“無論男女都不必再為聖所的工程奉獻甚麼禮物。”這樣,人民才被攔阻,不送甚麼禮物來。 因為所有的材料夠作一切工程,而且有餘。

做幕幔(A)

在作這工程的人中,凡是心裡有智慧的,用十幅幔子作帳幕;這些幔子是用撚的細麻、藍色紫色朱紅色線做的,並且用設計的巧工繡上基路伯。 每一幅幔子長十二公尺,每一幅幔子寬兩公尺,所有的幔子都是一樣的尺寸。 10 他把五幅幔子一一相連;也使另外五幅幔子一一相連。 11 在第一組相連的幔子末幅的邊緣上,他做藍色的鈕扣;在另一組相連的幔子末幅的邊緣上,他也照樣作。 12 在這一幅幔子上,他做了五十個鈕扣;在第二幅相連的幔子的邊緣上,他也做了五十個鈕扣,這些鈕扣都彼此相對。 13 又做了五十個金鉤,用鉤子使幔子彼此相連。這樣就成了一個帳幕。

14 他又用山羊毛做了幔子,作為帳幕上的罩棚,共做了十一幅幔子。 15 每一幅幔子長十三公尺,寬兩公尺,十一幅幔子都是一樣的尺寸。 16 他把五幅幔子相連在一起,又把另外六幅幔子相連在一起。 17 在第一組相連的幔子末幅的邊緣上,做了五十個鈕扣;在第二組相連的幔子末幅的邊緣上,也做了五十個鈕扣。 18 又做了五十個銅鉤,使罩棚相連,可以成為一個。 19 用染紅的公羊皮做了罩棚的蓋,又用海狗皮做蓋,放在罩棚的蓋上面。

做幕板(B)

20 他替帳幕用皂莢木做了豎板。 21 每塊板長四公尺,寬六十六公分。 22 每塊板有兩個榫頭,彼此相連接;帳幕一切木板,他都這樣做。 23 他為帳幕做板,給南邊,就是向南的方向做了二十塊板。 24 在這二十塊板底下,做了四十個銀座;這塊板底下的兩個銀座用來連接板的兩個榫頭,那塊板底下的兩個銀座用來連接它的兩個榫頭。 25 他為帳幕的第二邊,就是北面,也做了二十塊板, 26 和四十個銀座;這一塊板底下有兩個銀座,那一塊板底下也有兩個銀座。 27 帳幕的後面,就是西面,做了六塊板。 28 他替帳幕後面兩個角上做了兩塊板。 29 板的下截是雙的,直到上面的第一個環才接合完整;他把兩塊板都這樣做了,形成兩個角。 30 所以共有八塊板,十六個銀座。每一塊板底下都有兩個銀座。

31 他又用皂莢木做了橫閂,替帳幕這一邊的板做了五個橫閂, 32 替帳幕第二邊的板也做了五個橫閂,替帳幕後面,就是西面的板也做了五個橫閂, 33 他又做了中間的橫閂,穿過板腰,從這一端穿到那一端。 34 他用金子把板包裹,也做了板上的金環,用作穿橫閂的地方,並且也用金子把橫閂包裹。

做幔子、門簾和柱子(C)

35 他用藍色紫色朱紅色線和撚的細麻做了一幅幔幕,用巧設的圖案手工繡上基路伯。 36 他替幔幕做了四根皂莢木柱子,用金子包裹,柱釘是金的,又替柱子鑄造四個銀座。 37 又用藍色紫色朱紅色線和撚的細麻,用繡花的手工做成帳幕的門簾; 38 又為門簾做了五根柱子和柱子上的釘子,用金子把柱頂和橫杆包裹。但那五個座是銅的。

36 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.”

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. 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] So all the skilled people who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came from the work[m] they were doing 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]

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] Now the materials were more than enough[t] for them to do all the work.[u]

The Building of the Tabernacle

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. 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

  1. Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “wise of [in] heart.”
  2. Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “wisdom.”
  3. Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “understanding, discernment.”
  4. 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.
  5. 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.”
  6. 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.
  7. Exodus 36:2 tn The verb קָרָא (qaraʾ) plus the preposition “to”—“to call to” someone means “to summon” that person.
  8. Exodus 36:2 tn Here there is a slight change: “in whose heart Yahweh had put skill.”
  9. Exodus 36:2 tn Or “whose heart was willing.”
  10. 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.
  11. 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.”
  12. Exodus 36:3 tn Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”
  13. Exodus 36:4 tn Heb “a man, a man from his work”; or “each one from his work.”
  14. 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.
  15. Exodus 36:5 tn Heb “for the service” (so KJV, ASV).
  16. 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.
  17. 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).
  18. Exodus 36:6 tn Heb “voice.”
  19. Exodus 36:6 tn The verse ends with the infinitive serving as the object of the preposition: “from bringing.”
  20. 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).
  21. 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.
  22. 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.”
  23. Exodus 36:10 tn The words “the other” have been supplied.
  24. Exodus 36:13 tn Heb “one.”
  25. Exodus 36:14 tn Heb “eleven curtains he made them.”
  26. 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.”
  27. Exodus 36:19 tn See the note on this phrase in Exod 25:5.
  28. 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.
  29. Exodus 36:20 tn “Wood” is an adverbial accusative.
  30. 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).
  31. Exodus 36:21 tn Heb “the frame.”
  32. Exodus 36:21 tn Heb “the one.”
  33. Exodus 36:22 tn Heb “two hands to the one frame.”
  34. Exodus 36:22 tn Heb “joined one to one.”
  35. 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.”
  36. Exodus 36:26 tn Heb “under the one frame” again.
  37. Exodus 36:29 tn This is the last phrase of the verse, moved forward for clarity.
  38. 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.
  39. Exodus 36:34 tn Literally “houses”; i.e., places to hold the bars.
  40. 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.
  41. Exodus 36:36 tn Heb “and their hooks gold.”
  42. 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).
  43. 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.

36 So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person(A) to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary(B) are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.”

Then Moses summoned Bezalel(C) and Oholiab(D) and every skilled person to whom the Lord had given ability and who was willing(E) to come and do the work. They received from Moses all the offerings(F) the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning. So all the skilled workers who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left what they were doing and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough(G) for doing the work the Lord commanded to be done.”

Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more, because what they already had was more(H) than enough to do all the work.

The Tabernacle(I)

All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands. All the curtains were the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.[a] 10 They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five. 11 Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set. 12 They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other. 13 Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the two sets of curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.(J)

14 They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether. 15 All eleven curtains were the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.[b] 16 They joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another set. 17 Then they made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set. 18 They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together as a unit.(K) 19 Then they made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.[c]

20 They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. 21 Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,[d] 22 with two projections set parallel to each other. They made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 23 They made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle 24 and made forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection. 25 For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, they made twenty frames 26 and forty silver bases—two under each frame. 27 They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle, 28 and two frames were made for the corners of the tabernacle at the far end. 29 At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike. 30 So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

31 They also made crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, 32 five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle. 33 They made the center crossbar so that it extended from end to end at the middle of the frames. 34 They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

35 They made the curtain(L) of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker. 36 They made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold. They made gold hooks for them and cast their four silver bases. 37 For the entrance to the tent they made a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer;(M) 38 and they made five posts with hooks for them. They overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold and made their five bases of bronze.

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 36:9 That is, about 42 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 13 meters long and 1.8 meters wide
  2. Exodus 36:15 That is, about 45 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 14 meters long and 1.8 meters wide
  3. Exodus 36:19 Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals (see 35:7)
  4. Exodus 36:21 That is, about 15 feet long and 2 1/4 feet wide or about 4.5 meters long and 68 centimeters wide