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the tribe of Dan , the abil ity to teach others . 35 He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as en grav ers , de signers , em broi der ers in blue , pur ple and scar let yarn and fine linen , and weavers — all of them skilled work ers and
36 de sign ers . 1 So Bez a lel , Oho liab and ev ery skilled per son to whom the Lord has given skill and abil ity to know how to carry out all the work of con struct ing the sanc tu ary are to do the work just as the Lord has com manded .”
2 Then Mo ses sum moned Bez a lel and Oho liab and ev ery skilled per son to whom the Lord had given abil ity and who was will ing to come and do the work . 3 They re ceived from Mo ses all the of fer ings the Is ra el ites had brought to carry out the work of con struct ing the sanc tu ary . And the peo ple con tin ued to bring free will of fer ings morn ing af ter morn ing . 4 So all the skilled work ers who were do ing all the work on the sanc tuary left what they were do ing 5 and said to Mo ses , “ The peo ple are bring ing more than enough for do ing the work the Lord com manded to be done .”
6 Then Mo ses gave an or der and they sent this word through out the camp : “ No man or woman is to make any thing else as an of fer ing for the sanc tu ary .” And so the peo ple were re strained from bring ing more , 7 be cause what they already had was more than enough to do all the work .
The Tabernacle
8 All those who were skilled among the work ers made the tab er na cle with ten cur tains of finely twisted linen and blue , pur ple and scar let yarn , with cher u bim wo ven into them by ex pert hands . 9 All the cur tains were the same size — twenty eight cu bits long and four cu bits wide . a 10 They joined five of the cur tains to gether and did the same with the other five . 11 Then they made loops of blue ma terial along the edge of the end cur tain in one set , and the same was done with the end cur tain in the other set . 12 They also made fifty loops on one cur tain and fifty loops on the end cur tain of the other set , with the loops op po site each other . 13 Then they
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EXODUS 36:2 – 7
The people of Israel walk all the way from Egypt to the promised land . Along the way , God gives Moses instructions for building a place of worship , the tabernacle . Moses asks the people to give from their belongings gold , silver , spices , fabrics and more . The people line up eagerly to give what they have and to offer their skills in woodworking , sewing , weaving , and spinning . Gifts heap on each other until they form a mountain of gifts , until there is more than enough . Moses tells the people to stop . No more gifts !
• OUR STORY • Money is only one way to give to God . A person might have musical talents or technical abilities to use in worship . Some have the gift of encouraging others . Some can paint or draw . Anything we have and anything we are can be a generous and wonderful gift for God . What if today people had to be told to stop giving ? Wouldn ’ t that be amazing ?
made fifty gold clasps and used them to fas ten the two sets of cur tains to gether so that the tab er na cle was a unit .
14 They made cur tains of goat hair for the tent over the tab er na cle — eleven al to gether . 15 All eleven cur tains were the same size — thirty cu bits long and four cu bits wide . b 16 They joined five of the cur tains into one set and the other six into an other set . 17 Then they made fifty loops along the edge of the end cur tain in one set and also along the edge of the end cur tain in the other set .
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9 That is , about 42 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 13 meters long and 1.8 meters wide b
15 That is , about 45 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 14 meters long and 1.8 meters wide