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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 36 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/36.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/36-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 36</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/35.htm" title="Exodus 35">◄</a> Exodus 36 <a href="../exodus/37.htm" title="Exodus 37">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/36.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded us to do.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters">a</a></sup></span> and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probably Bezalel (compare 35:30; 37:1)">b</a></sup></span> coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle was a single whole.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he made the middle bar to run from end to end halfway up the frames. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubim skillfully worked into it he made it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/36-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">cubit</i> was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Probably Bezalel (compare 35:30; 37:1)<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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