Exodus 26:1-21 ▼

1 |You are to make the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen and with blue, purple, and scarlet material. You are to make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

2 The length of each curtain is to be 28 cubits, the width of each curtain four cubits, and all the curtains are to have the same measurements.

3 |Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five curtains are to be joined together.

4 You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you are to make loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

5 You are to make 50 loops in the one curtain, and you are to make 50 loops along the edge of the curtain that is in the second set, with the loops opposite each other.

6 Then you are to make 50 gold clasps, and join the curtains to each other with the clasps so that the tent will be one piece.

7 |You are to make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tent. You are to make eleven curtains.

8 The length of each curtain is to be 30 cubits, and the width of each curtain two cubits; the measurements of each of the eleven curtains is to be the same.

9 You are to join five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and you are to double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

10 You are to make 50 loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and 50 loops along the edge of the curtain of the other set.

11 You are to make 50 bronze clasps, put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together so that it will be one piece.

12 As for the excess that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—is to hang over the back of the tent.

13 The half cubit that remain on either end of the length of the curtains of the tent is to hang over each side of the tent to cover it.

14 |You are to make a cover for the tent of ram skins dyed red and a covering of dolphin skins above that.

15 |You are to make upright boards of acacia wood for the tent.

16 Each board is to be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

17 Each board is to have two pegs joined to one another, and you are to do this for all the boards of the tent.

18 You are to make the boards for the tent: 20 boards for the south side.

19 And you are to make 40 silver sockets under the 20 boards: two sockets under the one board for its two pegs and two sockets under the next board for its two pegs.

20 |For the second side of the tent to the north you are to make 20 boards

21 and 40 silver sockets for them, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.