EXODUS 26 (NIV)
- "Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purpel and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman.
- All the curtains are to be the same size twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
- Join five of the crutains together, and do the same with the other five.
- Make 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.
- Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
- Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tablernacle is a unit
- "Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle - eleven altogether.
- All eleven curtains are to be the same size - thrity cubits long and four cuubits wide.
- Join 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.
- Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain on one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
- Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.
- As 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.
- The 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.
- Make for the tent a acovering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of hides of sea cows.
- "Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
- Each frame is to be tencubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
- with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
- Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
- and make forty silver bases to go under them - two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
- For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, make twenty frames
- and forty silver bases - two under each frame.
- Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
- and make two frames for the corners at the far end.
- At 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.
- So there will be eight frames and sixteen silver bases - two under each frame.
- "Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five of the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
- five for those on the other side, and ifve for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.
- The center crossbar is to extend from end to end at the middle of the frames.
- Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
- "Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.
- "Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftman.
- Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
- Hang the curtain from the calsps and place the ark of the Testimonly behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the most Holy Place.
- Put the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
- Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
- "For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen - the work of an embroiderer.
- Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.