Ten Linen Curtains
26 1 Make the tabernacle from ten curtains: finely twisted linen with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, woven with cherubim by a skilled artisan. 2 Each curtain: about forty-two feet long and six feet wide — all the same size. 3 Five curtains join to each other; the other five join to each other. 4 Make blue loops on the outer curtain's edge in the first set, and the same in the second set. 5 Make fifty loops on the first curtain, fifty on the second set's curtain edge, matching each other. 6 Make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with them, so the tabernacle becomes one.
7 Make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle — eleven of them. 8 All eleven curtains: forty-five feet long, six feet wide, one size. 9 Join five curtains separately, and six separately; fold the sixth curtain double at the tent's front. 10 Make fifty loops on the edge of the first set's outer curtain, and fifty on the edge of the second set's curtain. 11 Make fifty bronze clasps, put them through the loops, and join the tent into one. 12 The extra half-curtain from the tent is to hang down over the back of the tabernacle. 13 The extra eighteen inches of curtain hangs down each side of the tabernacle, covering it on both sides. 14 Make the tent's covering: rams' skins dyed red, and above, a covering of fine leather.
15 Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. 16 Each frame is to be about fifteen feet long and about twenty-seven inches wide. 17 Give each frame two tenons, matching each other; make all the tabernacle's frames this way. 18 Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle, 19 Make forty silver bases under the twenty frames — two per frame, one per peg. 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames 21 and forty silver bases, two under each frame. 22 For the rear of the tabernacle, on the west, make six frames, 23 and make two frames for the corners at the rear. 24 They must be doubled from the bottom, joined together to the top at one ring—same for both, for the two corners. 25 So there will be eight frames and their silver bases — sixteen bases, two under each frame.
26 Make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, 27 five for the frames on the other side, and five for the frames at the rear, westward. 28 The center bar is to run through the middle of the frames from end to end. 29 Overlay the frames with gold, make gold rings to hold the bars, and overlay the bars with gold. 30 Set up the tabernacle according to the plan you were shown on the mountain.
31 Make a veil: blue, purple, scarlet yarn, finely twisted linen, skillfully woven with cherubim. 32 Hang it on four gold-plated acacia posts with gold hooks, set on four silver bases. 33 Hang the curtain under the clasps. Bring the covenant chest in behind it — the curtain separates the holy place from the most holy. a a v33 This curtain kept the people apart from the most holy place where our Father's presence rested; its later tearing opened the way home into his presence. 34 Put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant law in the most holy place. 35 Put the table outside the veil, the lampstand opposite it on the tabernacle's south side, the table on the north side.
36 Make a screen for the tent entrance: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, embroidered work. 37 Make five acacia posts for the screen, gold-covered, with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases.
