Exodus 35:30-35

Exodus 35:30 to Exodus 36:7 P s. The Craftsmen and their Supplies. The first paragraph (to Exodus 36:1) describes the call of Bezalel and Oholiab (cf. Exodus 31:2 ff.). The second (Exodus 36:2) relates, with a glowing idealisation of the conditions of that golden age, how the craftsmen had to restrain the givers from bringing too much.

Exodus 36:8 P s. The Tent. This section comes first instead of following the account of its contents as in Exodus 36:26. The fourfold curtains are described first (Exodus 35:8; cf. Exodus 26:1); then the framework (Exodus 35:20; cf. Exodus 26:15); and lastly the veil and screen (Exodus 35:35, cf. Exodus 26:31 f., Exodus 26:36 f.). The only new feature is the gradation in gilding by which the veil pillars were all gilt and the screen pillars had gilded capitals (Exodus 36:38), while the pillars at the entrance of the court had silvered tops (Exodus 38:19).