Moses quickly bowed to the ground and prostrated himself in worship.

Then the LORD said, "I'm now going to make a covenant. I'll do miraculous deeds in full view of your people that haven't been done in all the earth or in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the LORD, because it's an awesome thing that I'll do with you.

"Be very careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, so they won't be a snare among you.

Rather, you are to tear down their altars, you are to smash their sacred pillars, and you are to cut down their sacred poles

indeed, you are not to bow down in worship to any other god, because the LORD's name is Jealous he's a jealous God

Otherwise, you may make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and when they prostitute themselves with their gods and offer sacrifices to their gods, someone may invite you and then you may eat some of their sacrifices.

"You are not to take any of their daughters for your sons. Otherwise, when their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they may cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

"You are not to make molten gods for yourselves.

"You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days, at the appointed time in the month Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

"Everything firstborn belongs to me: all the males of your herds, the firstborn of both cattle and sheep.

You are to redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, and if you don't redeem it, you are to break its neck. You are to redeem every firstborn of your sons, and no one is to appear before me empty-handed.

"For six days you are to work, but on the seventh day you are to rest; even during plowing time and harvest you are to rest.

"You are to observe the Festival of Weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Tabernacles at the turn of the year.

Three times during the year all your males are to appear in the presence of the LORD God of Israel,

since I'm going to drive out nations before you, and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land, when you go up to appear in the presence of the LORD your God three times a year.

"You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, nor are you to allow the sacrifice of the Festival of Passover to remain until morning.

"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of the ground to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

Then the LORD told Moses, "Write down these words, because I'm making a covenant with you and with Israel according to these words."

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he had the two tablets in his hand, and he did not know that the skin of his face was ablaze with light because he had been speaking with God.

Aaron and all the Israelis saw Moses and immediately noticed that the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.

When Moses called to them, Aaron and the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and he spoke to them.

and then whenever Moses would come in the LORD's presence to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he left the LORD's presence. When he went out, he would tell the Israelis what he had been commanded.

The Israelis would see the face of Moses and that the skin of his face shone; then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with God.

Moses assembled the entire congregation of the Israelis and told them, "These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:

For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest in dedication to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day is to be executed.

You are not to light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath."

"Take from among yourselves an offering for the LORD. Everyone whose heart is willing is to bring as an offering for the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;

the altar of incense, its poles, the anointing oil, the aromatic incense, and the screen for the doorway at the entrance to the tent,

and every person whose heart moved him and all whose spirits prompted them, brought an offering to the LORD for constructing the Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.

Both the men and women came all whose hearts prompted them and brought brooches, earrings, rings, pendants, and all kinds of gold jewelry. Every person presented a wave offering of gold to the LORD.

The leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and the breast piece,

Each Israeli man and woman whose heart was prompted brought something as a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD had commanded them to do through Moses.

to make artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

to cut stones for setting, to carve wood, and to engage in all kinds of artistic work.

And he has given both him and Ahisamach's son Oholiab from the tribe of Dan the ability to teach.

He has equipped them to do all kinds of work done by an engraver, designer, embroider in blue, purple and scarlet material and in fine linen, or as a weaver. They were able to do all kinds of work and were skilled designers.

Bezalel and Oholiab and all the skilled craftsmen to whom the LORD gave wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work in constructing the sanctuary are to do everything that the LORD has commanded."

Then Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled people to whom the LORD had given ability, including everyone whose hearts stirred them to come forward to do the work.

They received from Moses all the offerings that the Israelis had brought for doing the work of constructing the sanctuary, and the people continued to bring freewill offerings every morning.

and told Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the work that the LORD has commanded us to do."

Then Moses issued an order, and the message was taken throughout the camp, "Men and women, don't bring any more offerings for the sanctuary." The people were restrained from bringing any more,

The length of each curtain was 28 cubits, and the width of each curtain two cubits. All the curtains had the same measurements.

Then he made 50 gold clasps, and joined the curtains to each other with the clasps so the tent was one piece.

The length of each curtain was 30 cubits, and the width of each curtain was two cubits; the measurements of each of the eleven curtains was the same.

He made 50 bronze clasps to join the tent together so it would be one piece.

Each board had two pegs, joined to one another, and he did this for all the boards of the tent.

He made 40 silver sockets under the 20 boards: two sockets under one board for its two pegs and two sockets under the next board for its two pegs.

For the second side of the tent to the north he made 20 boards,

and 40 silver sockets for them, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.

and he made two boards for the rear corners of the tent.

They were joined together at the bottom and they were connected on top, by one ring. He did this for the two of them, and they were the two corners.

There were eight boards with their sixteen silver sockets, two sockets under each board.

five bars for the boards on the second side of the tent, and five bars for the boards on the back side of the tent to the west.

He made the middle bar in the center of the boards pass through from end to end.

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

He cast four rings for it on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two rings on its other side.

He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.

He made a Mercy Seat of pure gold two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the Mercy Seat.

One cherub was at one end and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim at the two ends of the Mercy Seat and of one piece with it.

Then he made a table of acacia wood two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

The rings were close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold to carry the table.

A calyx was under the two branches that extended out of the stem; a calyx was under the next pair of branches that extended out of the stem; and a calyx was under the last pair of branches that extended out of the stem, and so on for the six branches extending from the lamp stand.

He made the altar for burning incense of acacia wood, a square, one cubit long, one cubit wide, and two cubits high, with its horns of one piece with it.

He made two gold rings for it under its molding, on its two opposite sides, as holders for poles by which to carry it.

And he put the poles through rings on the sides of the altar to carry it. He made it hollow, out of boards.

He made the bronze basin and its bronze base from mirrors contributed by the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

The screen of the gate of the court was the work of an embroiderer of blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine woven linen. The length was 20 cubits and it was five cubits high along its width, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

Now Uri's son Bezalel, grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had ordered Moses to build.

All the gold that was used in the work, in all the work on the sanctuary, including the gold from the wave offering, totaled 29 talents, 730 shekels, according to the standard used in the sanctuary.

The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the standard used in the sanctuary;

a beka a head (a beka is half a shekel, according to the standard used in the sanctuary) for everyone who went through the registration process from 20 years old and older. The total numbered 603,550 bekas.

One hundred talents of silver were used to cast the sockets for the sanctuary and the sockets for the curtain, 100 sockets for 100 talents, a talent per socket.

With it he made the sockets for the doorway to the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze lattice for it, all the furnishings for the altar,

the sockets for all around the court, the sockets for the gate to the court, all the pegs for the sanctuary, and all the pegs for all around the court.

They hammered out gold sheets and cut off threads to work into the blue, purple, and scarlet material and into the fine linen, a work of skillful design.

They made connecting shoulder pieces for the ephod and attached them to its two edges.

The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve stones corresponding to their names, with the engraving of a signet, each with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

They made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and they put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece.

They put the two gold cords on the two gold rings at the edges of the breast piece,

and they attached the other two ends of the two cords to the filigree settings, and then attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod in front.

They made two gold rings and attached them to the two edges of the breast piece, on the side of it which is toward the inner side of the ephod.

They made two gold rings and attached them in front, on the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, close to the place where it's joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

They tied the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord so it would rest on the skillfully woven band of the ephod and so the breast piece would not come loose from the ephod.

They made the medallion for the holy crown of pure gold, and they wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal: "Holy to the LORD."

They fastened a blue cord to it in order to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

All the work on the Tent of Meeting was completed, and the Israelis had crafted it according to everything that the LORD had commanded Moses, as they should have.

They brought to Moses the tent, all its furnishings, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

the altar of gold, anointing oil, aromatic incense, the screen for the doorway to the tent,

The Israelis had done all the work according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

The LORD spoke to Moses:

"On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tent of the Tent of Meeting.

You are to put the Ark of the Testimony there, and screen off the ark with the curtain.

You are to bring in the table and properly arrange what goes on it. Then you are to bring in the lamp stand and set up its lamps.

"You are to put the golden altar for incense in front of the Ark of the Testimony and then set up the screen for the doorway to the tent.

You are to put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the doorway of the tent of the Tent of Meeting.

You are to put the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it.

You are to set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.

You are to take the anointing oil and anoint the tent and all that is in it. You are to consecrate it and all its furnishings and it will be holy.