Exodus 26
1 “Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. Make them with cherubim, skillfully worked into them.
2 Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide. All the curtains shall be the same size.
3 Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall also be joined to one another.
4 Make loops of blue yarn along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same along the edge of the last curtain in the second set.
5 Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops face one another.
6 Make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is one whole.
7 Make curtains of goat hair as a tent over the tabernacle; make eleven curtains.
8 Each curtain shall be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide. The eleven curtains shall be the same size.
9 Join five curtains together as one set and six curtains together as another set, and fold the sixth curtain over the front of the tent.
10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the last curtain in one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain in the second set.
11 Make fifty bronze clasps, put the clasps through the loops, and join the tent together so that it is one whole.
12 As for the excess of the tent curtains, half of the curtain that extends beyond shall hang down at the back of the tabernacle.”
13 The cubit that extends on one side and the cubit on the other side, from the excess length of the tent curtains, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it on both sides.
14 Make a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red, and a covering of fine leather above that.
15 Make the frames for the tabernacle from acacia wood, standing upright.
16 Each frame shall be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
17 Each frame shall have two tenons joined together. Make all the frames of the tabernacle this way.
18 Make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side.
19 Make forty silver bases under the twenty frames: two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under another frame for its two tenons.
20 For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, twenty frames,
21 and their forty silver bases: two bases under one frame and two bases under another frame.
22 For the back of the tabernacle, on the west, make six frames.
23 Also make two frames for the corners of the tabernacle at the back.
24 They shall be double at the bottom and joined together at the top, at the first ring. The two shall be made this way; they shall be at the two corners.
25 So there shall be eight frames with their silver bases, sixteen bases in all: two bases under one frame and two bases under another frame.”
26 “Make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
27 five crossbars for the frames on the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the frames on the back of the tabernacle, on the west.
28 The middle crossbar shall run through the middle of the frames, from one end to the other.
29 Overlay the frames with gold, make their rings of gold to hold the crossbars, and overlay the crossbars with gold.
30 Set up the tabernacle according to its plan, which was shown to you on the mountain.
31 Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen. It shall be skillfully worked with cherubim.
32 Hang it on four acacia pillars overlaid with gold, with gold hooks, standing on four silver bases.
33 Hang the veil beneath the clasps, and bring the Ark of the Testimony inside the veil. The veil shall separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place for you.
34 Place the atonement cover on the Ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
35 Place the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. Put the table on the north side.
36 Make a screen for the entrance of the tent from blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, embroidered by a skilled worker.
37 Make five acacia pillars for the screen and overlay them with gold, with gold hooks; cast five bronze bases for them.”
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