Exodus 26 / 40
- 1"Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman.
- 2All the curtains are to be the same size-twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
- 3Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.
- 4Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set.
- 5Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
- 6Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.
- 7"Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle-eleven altogether.
- 8All eleven curtains are to be the same size-thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
- 9Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.
- 10Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
- 11Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.
- 12As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.
- 13The tent curtains will be a cubit longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it.
- 14Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of hides of sea cows.
- 15"Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
- 16Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
- 17with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
- 18Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
- 19and make forty silver bases to go under them-two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
- 20For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, make twenty frames
- 21and forty silver bases-two under each frame.
- 22Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
- 23and make two frames for the corners at the far end.
- 24At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top, and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that.
- 25So there will be eight frames and sixteen silver bases-two under each frame.
- 26"Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
- 27five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.
- 28The center crossbar is to extend from end to end at the middle of the frames.
- 29Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
- 30"Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.
- 31"Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman.
- 32Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
- 33Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- 34Put the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
- 35Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
- 36"For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen-the work of an embroiderer.
- 37Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.