23. Everyone brought their blue, purple, and red wool, their fine linen, and their cloth made of goat hair, as well as their ram skins dyed red and their fine leather.
24. Anyone who had silver or bronze or acacia wood brought it as a gift to the Lord.
25. The women who were good at weaving cloth brought the blue, purple, and red wool and the fine linen they had made.
26. And the women who knew how to make cloth from goat hair were glad to do so.
27. The leaders brought different kinds of jewels to be sewn on the special clothes and the breastpiece for the high priest.
28. They also brought sweet-smelling spices to be mixed with the incense and olive oil that were for the lamps and for ordaining the priests.
29. Moses had told the people what the Lord wanted them to do, and many of them decided to bring their gifts.
30. Moses said to the people of Israel:The Lord has chosen Bezalel of the Judah tribe.
31-33. Not only has the Lord filled him with his Spirit, but he has given him wisdom and made him a skilled craftsman who can create objects of art with gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood.
34. The Lord is urging him and Oholiab from the tribe of Dan to teach others.
35. And he has given them all kinds of artistic skills, including the ability to design and embroider with blue, purple, and red wool and to weave fine linen.