1 Moreover, you
shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and
blue, purple, and crimson yarns; you shall make them with cherubim
skilfully worked into them. 2 The length of each curtain shall be
twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the
curtains shall be of the same size. 3 Five curtains shall be joined to
one another; and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another.
4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in
the first set; and likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the
outermost curtain in the second set. 5 You shall make fifty loops on the
one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain
that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another. 6
You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one
another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be one whole.
7 You shall also make curtains
of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven
curtains. 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the
width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall be of the
same size. 9 You shall join five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at
the front of the tent. 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the
curtain that is outermost in the second set.
11 You shall make fifty clasps
of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent
together, so that it may be one whole. 12 The part that remains of the
curtains of the tent, the half-curtain that remains, shall hang over the
back of the tabernacle. 13 The cubit on one side, and the cubit on the
other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent,
shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side,
to cover it. 14 You shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’
skins and an outer covering of fine leather.
15 You shall make upright
frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. 16 Ten cubits shall be the
length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the width of each frame. 17
There shall be two pegs in each frame to fit the frames together; you
shall make these for all the frames of the tabernacle. 18 You shall make
the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side; 19 and
you shall make forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases
under the first frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next
frame for its two pegs; 20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on
the north side twenty frames, 21 and their forty bases of silver, two
bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame; 22 and
for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames. 23
You shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear; 24
they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first
ring; it shall be the same with both of them; they shall form the two
corners. 25 And so there shall be eight frames, with their bases of
silver, sixteen bases; two bases under the first frame, and two bases
under the next frame.
26 You shall make bars of
acacia wood, five for the frames of one side of the tabernacle, 27 and
five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five
bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear to the
west. 28 The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall pass through from
end to end. 29 You shall overlay the frames with gold, and shall make
their rings of gold to hold the bars; and you shall overlay the bars
with gold. 30 Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan
for it that you were shown on the mountain.
31 You shall make a curtain of
blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen; it shall be
made with cherubim skilfully worked into it. 32 You shall hang it on
four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, which have hooks of gold and
rest on four bases of silver. 33 You shall hang the curtain under the
clasps, and bring the ark of the covenant inside, within the curtain;
and the curtain shall separate for you the holy place from the most
holy. 34 You shall put the mercy-seat on the ark of the covenant
in the most holy place. 35 You shall set the table outside the curtain,
and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the
table; and you shall put the table on the north side.
36 You shall make a screen for
the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of
fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework. 37 You shall make for
the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold; their
hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for
them.
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