¹ So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

² Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:

³ And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

⁴ Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;

⁵ And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.

⁶ So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.

⁷ For the material they had was enough and more than enough for all the work which had to be done.

⁸ Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

⁹ Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

¹⁰ And five curtains were joined together, and the other five curtains were joined together.

¹¹ And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group.

¹² Fifty twists on the one curtain and Fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another.

¹³ And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.

¹⁴ And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made.

¹⁵ Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

¹⁶ Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group.

¹⁷ And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group,

¹⁸ And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent.

¹⁹ And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.

²⁰ And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.

²¹ The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.

²² Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way.

²³ They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:

²⁴ And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.

²⁵ And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards,

²⁶ With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board.

²⁷ And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards,

²⁸ And two boards for the angles at the back.

²⁹ These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles.

³⁰ So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board.

³¹ And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,

³² And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west.

³³ The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other.

³⁴ All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

³⁵ And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

³⁶ And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

³⁷ And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;

³⁸ And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

¹ Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

² He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

³ Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

⁴ But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."

⁵ The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

⁶ Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

⁷ Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

⁸ Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.

⁹ Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

¹⁰ They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

¹¹ We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

¹² He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

¹³ They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

¹⁴ Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

¹⁵ By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

¹⁷ He put them all together into custody for three days.

¹⁸ Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

¹⁹ If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

²⁰ Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

²¹ They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

²² Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

²³ They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

²⁴ He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

²⁵ Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

²⁶ They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

²⁷ As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

²⁸ He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

²⁹ They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

³⁰ "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

³¹ We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

³² We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

³³ The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

³⁴ Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

³⁵ It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

³⁶ Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

³⁷ Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."

³⁸ He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."