Exodus 36:7
5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the LORD has commanded us to do.”
6 After Moses had given an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “No man or woman should make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing more,
since what they already had was more than enough to perform all the work.
8 All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- since what they already had was more than enough to perform all the work.
- KJV
- For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
- WEB
- For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
- ASV
- For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
- DARBY
- for the work they had was sufficient for all the work to do it, and it was too much.
- BLB
- And the work they had was sufficient for all the work to be done, and there was excess.
- ÅB
- Men det som var gitt, var nok til hele det arbeid som skulle fullføres, ja mere enn nok.
- OTB
- For materialene de hadde var tilstrekkelige og mer enn nok til å fullføre alt arbeidet.
- B1930
- Men det som var gitt, var nok til hele det arbeid som skulde fullføres, ja mere enn nok.
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2 Chronicles 31:10
and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
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