to make artistic designs ¹  for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze,

and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

Now the materials were more than enough ¹  for them to do all the work. ² 

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

and in cutting stones for their setting, ¹  and in cutting wood, to do work in every artistic craft. ² 

They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave ¹  them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

But Moses said, “That would not be the right thing to do, ¹  for the sacrifices we make ²  to the Lord our God would be an abomination ³  to the Egyptians. ⁴  If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, ⁵  will they not stone us? ⁶ 

The Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, every man and woman whose heart was willing to bring materials for all the work that the Lord through ¹  Moses had commanded them ²  to do.

He has filled them with skill ¹  to do all kinds of work ²  as craftsmen, as designers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and in fine linen, and as weavers. They are ³  craftsmen in all the work ⁴  and artistic designers. ⁵