Exodus 36
1 Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled men to whom the LORD had given skill and understanding to know how to do all the work of service for the sanctuary did everything as the LORD had commanded.
2 Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled men in whose hearts the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart moved him to come forward to do the work.
3 They received from Moses all the contribution the Israelites had brought for the work of service for the sanctuary, to carry it out. And the people kept bringing him voluntary offerings, morning after morning.
4 Then all the skilled men who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came, each one leaving the work he was doing.
5 They said to Moses, “The people are bringing far more than is needed for the work the LORD commanded us to do.”
6 So Moses gave an order, and a proclamation was made throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else for the contribution for the sanctuary.” And the people were stopped from bringing more.
7 There was enough material to do all the work, and more than enough.
8 All the skilled workers among those doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen, blue, purple, and crimson yarn, with cherubim skillfully woven into them.
9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains had the same measurements.
10 He joined five curtains to one another, and he joined the other five curtains to one another.
11 He made loops of blue yarn along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and he did the same along the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
12 He made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain in the second set, with the loops opposite one another.
13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle became one whole.
14 He also made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.
15 Each curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide; the eleven curtains had the same measurements.
16 He joined five curtains together as one set and six curtains together as the other set.
17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in one set, and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain in the second set.
18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together, so that it would be one whole.
19 For the tent he made a covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and over it a covering of fine leather.
20 He made the frames for the tabernacle out of acacia wood, standing upright.
21 Each frame was ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
22 Each frame had two pegs joined to one another; he made all the frames of the tabernacle this way.
23 He made the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side.
24 He made forty silver bases for the twenty frames: two bases under one frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs.
25 For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames.
26 Their forty bases were silver: two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame.
27 For the back of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six frames.
28 He also made two frames for the corners at the back of the tabernacle.
29 They were doubled at the bottom and joined together at the top, as far as the first ring. He did this for both frames at the two corners.
30 So there were eight frames, with their silver bases—sixteen bases, two bases under each frame.
31 He made crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
32 five crossbars for the frames on the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the frames at the back of the tabernacle, to the west.
33 He made the middle crossbar to pass through the middle of the frames, from one end to the other.
34 He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold as holders for the crossbars, and he overlaid the crossbars with gold.
35 He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim skillfully woven into it.
36 He made four acacia-wood posts for it and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks; and he cast four silver bases for them.
37 He made a screen for the entrance to the tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and finely twisted linen, embroidered by a skilled worker,
38 with its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops and bands with gold, and its five bases were bronze.
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