Exodus 31
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Behold, I have called by name
Beseleel the son of Urias the son of Or, of the tribe of Juda.
3 And I have filled him
with a divine spirit of wisdom, and understanding,
and knowledge, to invent in every work,
4 and to frame works, to labour in
gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet,
5 and works in stone, and for
artificers' work in wood, to work at all works.
6 And I have
aGr. given.appointed him and Eliab the son of Achisamach of the
tribe of Dan, and to every one understanding in heart I have given
understanding; and they shall
bOr, work in or at. One reading is ποιήσουσι.make all things as many as I have appointed thee,—
7 the tabernacle of witness, and the
ark of the covenant, and the propitiatory that is upon it, and the furniture
of the tabernacle, 8 and the altars,
and the table and all its furniture,
9 and the pure candlestick and all its
furniture, and the laver and its base,
10 and Aaron's robes of ministry, and
the robes of his sons to minister to me as priests,
11 and the anointing oil and the
compound incense of the sanctuary; according to all that I have commanded thee
shall they make them.
12 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, 13 Do thou also charge the
children of Israel, saying, Take heed and keep my sabbaths;
for they are a sign with me and among you throughout
your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord that sanctifies you.
14 And ye shall keep the sabbaths,
because this is holy to the Lord for you; he that profanes it shall surely be
put to death: every one who shall do a work on it, that soul shall be
destroyed from the midst of his people.
15 Six days thou shalt do works, but
the seventh day is the sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord; every one who shall
do a work on the seventh day shall be put to death.
16 And the children of Israel shall
keep the sabbaths, to observe them throughout their generations.
17 It is a perpetual covenant with me
and the children of Israel, it is a perpetual sign with me; for in six days
the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and on the seventh day he ceased, and
rested. 18 And he gave to Moses when
he left off speaking to him in mount Sina the two tables of testimony, tables
of stone written upon with the finger of God.