Exo 35.1-36 tells us about the final section of Exodus which will deal with the actual construction of the Mishkan and how every construction was faithfully carried out.
v 1…Then Moses assembled (“vayakhel” and you can see the root for “kahal” or assembly here) all the congregation (adat) of the sons of Israel, and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do (the context is the construction of the Mishkan).
v 2…For six days work may be done (on the Mishkan in particular), but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day (a day with a kedusha with certain limitations and restrictions), a sabbath of complete rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it (in building the Mishkan) shall be put to death.
v 3…You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day (don’t start work fires for the Mishkan; there are no factories or “Home Depots” in the wilderness, and fires were needed for work; this does not refer to cooking-Exo 16.23 notes; in the Hertz “Pentateuch and Haftorahs” on p. 356 it says, “It would be an open denial of God for an Israelite to desecrate the Sabbath, even in the construction of the Tabernacle”).”
v 4…And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, saying,
v 5…’Take from among you a contribution (terumah) to the Lord; whoever is of a willing heart (generous) let him bring bring it as the Lord’s contribution: gold, silver and bronze,
v 6…and blue (techelet speaks of heaven), purple (argamon speaks of royalty), and scarlet (tola shanni speaks of the blood/redemption), and fine line goats hair (shesh speaking of righteousness),
v 7…and ram’s skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood,
v 8…an oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,
v 9…and onyx stones and setting stones, for the ephod and for the breastpiece (we have dealt with these in Exo 25).
v 10…And let every skillful (wise-hearted) man among you come, and make all that the Lord has commanded;
v 11…the tabernacle (mishkan), its tent (speaks of the pilgrim life) and its covering, its hooks and its boards (alludes to the kahal), its bars, its pillars, and its sockets (kept it as one);
v 12…the ark and its poles, the mercy seat (kipporet-a place of mercy), and the curtain of the screen (speaks of the flesh);
v 13…the table and its poles, and all its utensils, and the bread of the presence (“lechem ha pannim” or bread of the faces alluding to provision);
v 14…the lampstand (Menorah speaks of the light of God’s word) also for the light and its utensils and its lamps and the oil for the light;
v 15…and the altar of incense (mizbeach ha kitoret is the place of prayer-Psa 141.2) and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle (only one way to God);
v 16…the altar of burnt offering (mizbeach ha olah and alludes to the cross) with its bronze grating (judgment), its poles, and all its utensils, the basin (kior) and its stand;
v 17…the hangings of the court (Yeshua “hung” in the flesh), its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
v 18…the pegs (“yotaid” and speaks of security) of the tabernacle, and the pegs of the court and the cords (God’s love-Hos 11.4),
v 19…the woven garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest (he is a picture of the perfect man in the Olam Haba), and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.’ “
v 20…All the congregation of the sons of Israel departed from Moses’ presence (they all heasrd the instruction).
v 21…And everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit moved him (a Hebrew parallelism) came and brought the Lord’s contribution (terumah) for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.
v 22…Then all whose heart moved them, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all articles of gold’ every man who presented an offering of gold to the Lord.
v 23…And every man, who had in his possession blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen (see verse 6 note) and goats (hair) and ram’s skins dyed red and sealskins, brought them.
v 24…Everyone who could make a contribution of silver and bronze brought the Lord’s contribution; and every man, who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
v 25…And all the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen
v 26…And all the women whose heart stirred with a skill spun the goat’s hair.
v 27…And the rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastpiece;
v 28…and the spice and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
v 29…The Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart moved them (they were willing) to bring material for all the work, which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a freewill offering to the Lord.
v 30…Then Moses said to the sons of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel (in the shadow of God) the son of Uri (my light), the son of Hur (white) of the tribe of Judah (praise; the leading tribe).
v 31…And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and knowledge and in all craftsmanship,
v 32…to make designs for working in gold and silver and in bronze,
v 33…and in the cutting of stones for the settings, and in the carving of wood so as to perform in every inventive work (skillful; ingenious).
v 34…He also has put in his heart to teach (direct and train) both he and Oholiab (my father is my tent) the son of Ahisamach (brother of support) of the tribe of Dan (judge, a smaller tribe; this teaches that God will unite both great and small in his service).
v 35…He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen and a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designers.
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