Exodus 36
1ACCORDINGLY * Beseleel and Eliab and every man skilled in arts, to whom had been given wisdom and understanding to know how to execute every kind of work suitable for the holy service, performed it according to all that the Lord had commanded.
2When Moses called Beseleel and Eliab and all who had skill—everyone in whose heart God had put knowledge and all who were freely willing to come to the work so as to finish it completely,
3they received from Moses all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for making all the works of the sanctuary. They received also the offerings from those who still continued to bring them in, every morning.
4And all the artists who did the works of the sanctuary attended diligently everyone at the work in which he was engaged.
5And when Moses was told that the people were bringing in more than sufficient for all the works which the Lord had ordered to be made,
6Moses issued orders and caused proclamation to be made throughout the camp saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offerings of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing any more;
7for the materials which they had were sufficient for all the work to be done; and there was an overplus.
8Now the most skillful among the workmen made the holy garments, which are appropriate to Aaron the priest as the Lord commanded Moses.
9They made the ephod of gold and of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread,
10the thin plates of gold being cut into fine threads so as to be inwoven with the blue and purple and with the scarlet yarn and cotton thread. They made it a woven work,
11the shoulder pieces having from both the sides a work woven one piece into another alternately, each convoluted through itself out of itself.
12They made it according to its peculiar fabric of gold and blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread as the Lord commanded Moses.
13And they worked the two smaragdine stones fastened with it and set in gold, which were excavated and engraven, like the engraving of a seal, with the names of the sons of Israel;
14and put them on the shoulders of the ephod, as stones of remembrance of the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
15And they made the oracle, a work of embroidery, like the workmanship of the ephod, of gold and blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread.
16The oracle they made double, and it was square, a span, the length; and a span, the breadth on both sides.
17And there was interwoven with it a texture containing stones in four rows; the first row of stones, a sardius and a topaz and a smaragdus;
18and the second row, a carbuncle and a sapphire and a jasper;
19and the third row, a ligure and an agate and an amethyst,
20and the fourth row, a chrysolite and a beryl and an onyx, set in gold and bound in with gold.
21Now these stones were twelve from the names of the sons of Israel, engraven like seals, every one with its peculiar name, for the twelve tribes.
22And on the oracle they made pieces of plaited net-work, the work of a plaiter of pure gold.
23They made also two little shields of gold and two rings of gold;
24and they put the two rings of gold on the two upper sides of the oracle;
25and they put the two pieces of plaited work of gold on the two rings on the two sides of the oracle;
26and they put the two pieces of plaited work for the two junctions, on the two shields which were on the shoulders of the ephod over against each other in front;
27and they made two rings of gold and put them on the two wings below the tip of the oracle and on the tip of the hinder part of the ephod on the inside;
28and they made two rings of gold and put them on both the shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, over against the upper junction of the texture of the ephod;
29and they fastened the oracle by the rings on it to the rings of the ephod which were fastened to it with blue yarn, being plaited into the texture of the ephod, that the oracle might not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.
30And they made the long robe under the ephod, a woven work, all of blue yarn:
31and the opening of the under robe in the middle was woven with a binding of plaited work, having a hem all around the hole that it might not be rent.
32And on the border of the robe below, they made clusters as of a blooming pomegranate of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and cotton thread:
33And they made golden bells and put the bells on the border of the robe round about between the clusters,
34a golden bell and a cluster on the border of the robe round about, to minister in as the Lord commanded Moses.
35And they made cotton vestures, a woven work for Aaron and his sons
36and the tiaras of cotton and the mitre of cotton and the drawers of cotton,
37and the girdles of cotton thread and of blue and purple and scarlet yarn a work of embroidery as the Lord commanded Moses.
38And they made the plate of gold, a dedication of the sanctuary, of pure gold,
39and wrote thereon in letters engraved like a seal, Holiness to the Lord,
40and put it on a ribbon of blue that it might be hung upon the mitre above as the Lord commanded Moses.