Exodus Chapter 36

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Exodus, chapter thirty six. Bezilel o Holiab and every skilled
person whom the Eternal One has gifted with expertise and
wisdom in order to build the sanctuary, shall use these
gifts as the Eternal One has directed. Moses called together
Bezilel o Holyab and every skilled person whom the eternal

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had gifted with special skills, everyone whose heart moved them
to work, to help out and contribute to the construction work.
Moses handed over to the workers all the materials the
Israelites donated to build the Congregation tent, and every morning
new contributions continued to come in. Eventually, the craftsmen who
were working on every aspect of the sanctuary project interrupted

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their particular jobs and reported to Moses, the people are
bringing far more than we need to complete the work
which the Eternal One has instructed us to do. So,
Moses issued a new directive, and it spread quickly throughout
the camp. We do not need any more contributions to
complete the Congregation tent. We have more than enough. And
with that the people stopped bringing contributions, for the material

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already on hand was more than enough to construct, furnish,
and decorate the sanctuary. All the craftsmen made ten curtains
at a finely woven linen for the congregation tent, using blue,
purple and scarlet thread. Bezelel had skilled workers embroider images
of the winged Guardians on the curtains. Each curtain was

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forty two feet long and six feet wide. All ten
curtains were identical in size and shape. Bezilel had his
craftsmen connect five curtains together to make one large panel.
Then they connected the other five curtains to make a second.
He had fifty blue loops made and attached along the
edge of the outer curtain of the first panel, and
then did the same thing on the edge of the

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outer curtain of the second. He made sure the loops
matched up with each other. He also had fifty clasps
fashioned from gold and use them to join the curtains
together so that the interior of the congregation tent formed
one continuous piece. He then had eleven panels of tent
fabric made out of goat hair to use as a
covering for the interior of the congregation tent. Each panel

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was forty five feet long and six feet wide. All
eleven of the panels were identical in size and shape.
He joined five panels together to form one large panel,
and then did the same with the remaining six to
form a second large panel. He had fifty loops made
and attached along the edge of the outer panel of
each set. Then he had fifty clasps fashioned from bronze

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and used them to connect the panels together so that
they formed one continuous piece. He then covered the goat
hair panels with a layer of red dyed ramskins and
covered that with a layer made from sea cow hides.
Bezeleel had his workers construct the supporting frame panels for
the congregation tent out of akasha wood. Each panel was

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fifteen feet high and twenty seven inches wide. He had
them carved two tenons on each panel to fit into
the next. They made all the panels this way. This
is how they made all the panels for the congregation tent.
He made twenty panels for the southern end and set
them into forty bases made of silver, two bases beneath
each panel. He made twenty panels for the northern end

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as well, and set them into forty silver bases beneath
the twenty panels two bases beneath each framing panel. At
the back wall of the congregation tent, the side that
faces west, he made six panels. He also made two
special panels to support each corner on the back of
the tent. They came together with the side panels at
the bottom to make a strong corner, and attached at

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the top of the first ring. He did the same
thing at both corners. On the back wall. There were
eight frame panels with silver bases, sixteen bases in all,
two beneath each panel. He then made crossbars of akashi wood,
five to connect the frame panels on one side of
the congregation tent, five more to connect the panels on

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the other side, and five more to connect the panels
at the back the side that faces west. He ran
one bar in the center from corner to corner, halfway
up the panels. He overlaid the panels with gold and
fashioned gold rings to hold the crossbars, and he overlaid
the crossbars with gold as well. Bezelel had his skilled

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workers make the veil by embroidering finely woven linen with
images of winged guardians in blue, purple and scarlet thread
to hold up the veil. He erected four acasuwoed posts
that were overlaid with gold, onto four silver bases. He
fashioned gold hooks for them. For the entrance to the tent,
he made a fabric screen at a finely woven linen

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richly embroidered with blue, purple and scarlet thread. He hung
it on five posts using hooks overlaid with gold. The
posts were set into four bases made of bronze.