1 Todos os outros artistas, com capacidades dadas por Deus, deverão prestar assistência a Bezalel e a Aoliabe na construção e no mobiliário do tabernáculo, disse Moisés a Bezalel, a Aoliabe e a todos os outros que se sentiam chamados para este trabalho. E mandou que começassem.
3 Moisés entregou-lhes o material oferecido pelo povo; mas este ainda trazia em cada manhã mais ofertas voluntárias.
4 Por fim todos os que trabalhavam naquela tarefa vieram ter com Moisés e disseram-lhe: Já temos muito mais do que é necessário para esta obra!
6 Moisés então enviou uma mensagem através do campo anunciando que não eram precisas mais ofertas. E o povo teve mesmo de ser impedido de trazer mais coisas.
8 Os artistas tecelãos fizeram primeiramente dez cortinas de linho fino retorcido, em azul, púrpura e carmezim, com querubins habilmente bordados. Cinco destas cortinas eram ligadas entre si lado a lado, e outras cinco também da mesma maneira, de forma a fazerem duas peças rectangulares. Cinquenta laços azuis foram cosidos na bainha de cada uma dessas duas longas peças. Depois fizeram-se cinquenta colchetes de ouro para prender os laços, atando assim as duas peças de maneira a formarem o tecto do tabernáculo.
14 Por cima desse tecto havia uma segunda coberta feita de onze cobertas de pêlo de cabra, cada uma delas uniformemente com quinze metros de comprimento por dois de largura. Bezalel juntou cinco destas cobertas formando uma peça rectangular e as outras seis também as uniu da mesma forma. Depois fez cinquenta laços na bainha dum dos lados de cada uma dessas peças, assim como cinquenta pequenos colchetes de bronze para poder atar os laços uns aos outros, a fim de que as duas peças ficassem bem unidas uma à outra. A última camada deste telhado era feita de pele de carneiro tingida de vermelho e ainda de peles de cabra curtidas.
20 Para os lados do tabernáculo empregou tábuas de madeira de acácia postas ao alto.
21 A altura de cada tábua era de 5 metros, e a largura de 75 centímetros.
22 Cada tábua tinha uma ranhura para poder encaixar na seguinte. Havia vinte tábuas do lado do sul, com as extremidades enfiando, ao todo, em quarenta bases de prata. Cada tábua estava fixada à base por duas braçadeiras. Havia também vinte tábuas do lado norte do tabernáculo, com quarenta bases de prata, duas para cada tábua. O lado ocidental, que era a sua parte de trás, tinha seis tábuas mais uma outra para cada canto. Estas tábuas, incluindo as dos cantos, ligavam-se umas às outras em ambas as extremidades por meio de argolas. Assim, no lado ocidental havia oito tábuas no total, com dezasseis bases de prata sob elas, duas para cada tábua.
31 Depois fez cinco conjuntos de barras de madeira de acácia para prender as tábuas entre si, cinco barras para cada lado do tabernáculo. A barra do meio - desse conjunto de cinco - ficava a meia altura das tábuas, percorrendo-as duma ponta à outra desse lado. Tanto as tábuas como as barras foram cobertas de ouro, mas as argolas eram de ouro puro.
35 O véu interior, de azul, púrpura e carmezim, foi feito de linho com querubins artisticamente bordados. Depois, foi então atado a quatro ganchos postos em quatro colunas de madeira de acácia recobertas de ouro e assentes em quatro bases de prata.
37 Seguidamente fez a cortina para a entrada do tabernáculo, de linho fino retorcido, bordado a azul, púrpura e carmezim. Esta cortina estava suspensa por quatro ganchos a cinco postes ou colunas. Estes postes, os seus capitéis e hastes foram revestidos de ouro. As suas cinco bases foram moldadas em bronze.
1 And Bezalel and Oholiab will work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
3 and they received of Moses all the offering which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. And they brought yet to him freewill-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 wrought.
5 And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh 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 anymore work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were kept back from bringing.
7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
8 And all the wise-hearted men among them who wrought the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, [Bezalel] made them.
9 The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure.
10 And he coupled five curtains one to another: and [the other] five curtains he coupled one to another.
11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.
12 Fifty loops he made in the one curtain, and fifty loops he made in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling: the loops were opposite one to another.
13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.
14 And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain: the eleven curtains had one measure.
16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain which was [outermost in] the second coupling.
18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze 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 sealskins above.
20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.
21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.
23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.
24 And 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 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, 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 hinder part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
28 And two boards he made for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part.
29 And they were a pair at the bottom, but they were joined together at its top to one ring: thus he did to both of them in the two corners.
30 And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
31 And he made bars of acacia 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 hinder part westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, he made it.
36 And he made thereto four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; And he cast for them four sockets of silver.
37 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer;
38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of bronze.