1 M oreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim skillfully embroidered shall you make them.

2 T he length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; each of the curtains shall measure the same.

3 T he five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

4 A nd you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the last curtain in the first set, and likewise in the second set.

5 F ifty loops you shall make on the one curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the last curtain that is in the second coupling or set, so that the loops on one correspond to the loops on the other.

6 A nd you shall make fifty clasps of gold and fasten the curtains together with the clasps; then the tabernacle shall be one whole.

7 A nd make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.

8 O ne curtain shall be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide; and the eleven curtains shall all measure the same.

9 Y ou shall join together five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the front of the tabernacle.

10 A nd make fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the one set and fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the second set.

11 Y ou shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and couple the tent together, that it may be one whole.

12 T he surplus that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

13 A nd the cubit on the 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 Y ou shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins tanned red, and a covering above that of dolphin or porpoise skins.

15 A nd you shall make the upright frame for the tabernacle of boards of acacia wood.

16 T en cubits shall be the length of a board and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

17 M ake two tenons in each board for dovetailing and fitting together; so shall you do for all the tabernacle boards.

18 A nd make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;

19 A nd you shall make forty silver sockets under the twenty boards, two sockets under each board for its two tenons.

20 A nd for the north side of the tabernacle there shall be twenty boards

21 A nd their forty silver sockets, two sockets under each board.

22 F or the back or west side of the tabernacle you shall make six boards.

23 M ake two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the rear on both sides.

24 T hey shall be coupled down below and coupled together on top with one ring. Thus shall it be for both of them; they shall form the two corners.

25 A nd that will be eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under each board.

26 A nd you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of one side,

27 A nd five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the rear end of the tabernacle, for the back wall to the west.

28 A nd the middle bar halfway up the boards shall pass through from end to end.

29 Y ou shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold to hold the bars and overlay the bars with gold.

30 Y ou shall erect the tabernacle after the plan of it shown you on the mountain.

31 A nd make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet and fine twined linen, skillfully worked with cherubim on it.

32 Y ou shall hang it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold, with gold hooks, on four sockets of silver.

33 A nd you shall hang the veil from the clasps and bring the ark of the Testimony into place within the veil; and the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

34 A nd you shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.

35 A nd you shall set the table outside the veil on the north side and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle.

36 Y ou shall make a hanging for the door of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet and fine twined linen, embroidered.

37 Y ou shall make five pillars of acacia wood to support the hanging curtain and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.