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Exodus 26

¹“Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker.

²All the curtains are to be the same size — twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide. [70]

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. [71]

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 [72] 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 the other durable leather. [73]

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, [74]

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 woven into it by a skilled worker.

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 covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

³⁴Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law 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.