36 1 Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person our Father gave skill and understanding to build the sanctuary must do all the work exactly as our Father commanded.
2 Then Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart our Father put skill, everyone whose heart moved them to come and do the work. 3 They took from Moses all the offering the Israelites had brought for building the sanctuary, while the people kept bringing him voluntary offerings morning after morning. 4 So all the skilled workers doing all the sanctuary's work came, each from the task he was doing. 5 They told Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the work our Father commanded us to do."
6 So Moses commanded a proclamation through the camp: 'No man or woman is to make any more for the sanctuary.' And the people stopped bringing, 7 for what they already had was enough to do all the work, and more than enough.
Ten Curtains of Linen and Gold
8 The skilled workers made the tabernacle: ten curtains of finely twisted linen, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim, the work of a skilled designer. 9 Each curtain was about forty-two feet long, six feet wide—one size for all curtains. 10 He joined five curtains to each other, and the other five to each other. 11 He put blue loops on the edge of the outer curtain in the first set, and the same on the edge of the outer curtain in the second set. 12 He made fifty loops on the first curtain, and fifty on the edge of the curtain in the second set, loops opposite one another. 13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains with them, so the tabernacle became one.
14 He made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the dwelling — eleven curtains. 15 Each curtain was about forty-five feet long, six feet wide; all eleven curtains matched in size. 16 He joined five of the curtains together, and the other six together. 17 He made fifty loops on the outermost curtain's edge in the first set, and fifty loops on the curtain's edge in the second set. 18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent as one. 19 He made a covering for the tent from red-dyed ram skins, and a fine-leather covering above it.
20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 21 Each frame was about fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide. 22 Each frame had two tenons, joined to one another; he made all the tabernacle's frames this way. a a v22 A tenon is a projecting wooden peg at the base of each frame that fits into a slot in the silver base, locking the frame upright. 23 He made the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side. 24 He made forty silver bases under the twenty frames: two bases under one frame for its two tenons, two bases under the next for its two tenons. 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames 26 and their forty silver bases, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame. 27 For the rear of the tabernacle, on the west, he made six frames. 28 He made two frames for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear. 29 Both were doubled at the bottom and joined into a single ring at the top; he did this with both, at the two corners. 30 So there were eight frames with their silver bases—sixteen bases, two under each frame.
31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, 32 Five bars for the frames on the tabernacle's second side, and five bars for the frames at the rear, westward. 33 He made the middle bar to run through the frames from end to end. 34 He overlaid the frames with gold, made gold rings to hold the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 He wove the curtain of blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, cherubim skillfully worked in. 36 He made four acacia pillars for it, plated them with gold, gold hooks, and cast four silver bases for them.
37 He made a screen for the tent's entrance, embroidered in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen. 38 and its five pillars with hooks; he covered their tops and connecting rods with gold, but their five bases were bronze.
