¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

² I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

³ And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork,

⁴ To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

⁵ In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.

⁶ And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;

⁷ The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the Tent,

⁸ And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,

⁹ And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel with its base,

¹⁰ And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests,

¹¹ And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done.

¹² And the Lord said to Moses,

¹³ Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.

¹⁴ So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

¹⁵ Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

¹⁶ And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.

¹⁷ It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

¹⁸ And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

¹ Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

² For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

³ Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

⁴ For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

⁵ As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

⁶ In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

⁷ He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

⁸ He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

⁹ It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"