Exodus 35 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Sabbath Regulations

Exo 35:1Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do.

Exo 35:2

Exo 35:2Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

Exo 35:3

Exo 35:3You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”

Contributions for the Tabernacle

(Exo 25:1–9; 39:32–43 )

Exo 35:4

Exo 35:4Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the LORD has commanded.

Exo 35:5

Exo 35:5Take from among you a contribution to the LORD. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the LORD’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;

Exo 35:6

Exo 35:6blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair,

Exo 35:7

Exo 35:7tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins;[fn] acacia wood,

Exo 35:8

Exo 35:8oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

Exo 35:9

Exo 35:9and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

Exo 35:10

Exo 35:10“Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the LORD has commanded:

Exo 35:11

Exo 35:11the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

Exo 35:12

Exo 35:12the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;

Exo 35:13

Exo 35:13the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;

Exo 35:14

Exo 35:14the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

Exo 35:15

Exo 35:15and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;

Exo 35:16

Exo 35:16the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

Exo 35:17

Exo 35:17the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;

Exo 35:18

Exo 35:18the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;

Exo 35:19

Exo 35:19the finely worked garments for ministering[fn] in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”

Exo 35:20

Exo 35:20Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

Exo 35:21

Exo 35:21And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD’s contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

Exo 35:22

Exo 35:22So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the LORD.

Exo 35:23

Exo 35:23And every one who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins brought them.

Exo 35:24

Exo 35:24Everyone who could make a contribution of silver or bronze brought it as the LORD’s contribution. And every one who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it.

Exo 35:25

Exo 35:25And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

Exo 35:26

Exo 35:26All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.

Exo 35:27

Exo 35:27And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece,

Exo 35:28

Exo 35:28and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

Exo 35:29

Exo 35:29All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the LORD had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the LORD.

Construction of the Tabernacle

(Exo 31:1–11 )

Exo 35:30

Exo 35:30Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

Exo 35:31

Exo 35:31and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,

Exo 35:32

Exo 35:32to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze,

Exo 35:33

Exo 35:33in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.

Exo 35:34

Exo 35:34And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan.

Exo 35:35

Exo 35:35He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

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ESV Footnotes

(35:7)

The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 23; compare 25:5

(35:19)

Or garments for worship; see 31:10

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