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- So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the LORD has given
- skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing
- the sanctuary are to do the work just as the LORD has commanded."
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- Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to
- whom the LORD had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.
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- They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to
- carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued
- to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
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- So all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work
- on the sanctuary left their work
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- and said to Moses, "The people are bringing more than enough for
- doing the work the LORD commanded to be done."
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- Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp:
- "No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary."
- And so the people were restrained from bringing more,
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- because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.
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- All the skilled men among the workmen made the tabernacle with
- ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn,
- with cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman.
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- All the curtains were the same size--twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
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- They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five.
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- Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set,
- and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set.
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- They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain
- of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
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- Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten
- the two sets of curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.
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- They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle--
- eleven altogether.
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- All eleven curtains were the same size--
- thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
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- They joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another set.
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- Then they made 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.
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- They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together as a unit.
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- Then they made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red,
- and over that a covering of hides of sea cows.
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- They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
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- Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
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- with two projections set parallel to each other.
- They made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
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- They made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
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- and made forty silver bases to go under them--
- two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
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- For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, they made twenty frames
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- and forty silver bases--two under each frame.
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- They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
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- and two frames were made for the corners of the tabernacle at the far end.
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- At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way
- to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike.
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- So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases--two under each frame.
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- They also made crossbars of acacia wood:
- five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
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- five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west,
- at the far end of the tabernacle.
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- They made the center crossbar so that it extended from end to end
- at the middle of the frames.
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- They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars.
- They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.
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- They made the curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen,
- with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman.
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- They made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold.
- They made gold hooks for them and cast their four silver bases.
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- For the entrance to the tent they made a curtain of blue,
- purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen--the work of an embroiderer;
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- and they made five posts with hooks for them.
- They overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands
- with gold and made their five bases of bronze.