Then Pharaoh took his king's ring from his finger and he put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed Joseph in beautiful clothes made of linen. He put a gold chain round Joseph's neck.

blue, purple and red material; good linen and goat's hair;

The tabernacle

Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of very good linen. Also use blue, purple and red material. Tell a worker to use special skills to make pictures of cherubs on the curtains.

The curtain inside the tabernacle

Use blue, purple and red material and good linen to make a special curtain. A worker must use special skills to make pictures of cherubs on it.

Make a curtain for the entrance of the tent. Use blue, purple and red material and good linen to make it. A worker must use special skills to make it so that it looks beautiful.

The yard

Make a yard around the tent of the tabernacle. The south side must be 45 metres long. It will have curtains that are made of good linen.

Make a curtain 9 metres wide for the entrance to the yard. Make it out of blue, purple and red material, as well as good linen. Choose a worker who can use special skills to make the curtain look beautiful. Make four poles and their bases to hold the curtain at the entrance.

The yard will be 45 metres long and 23 metres wide. Use good linen to make the curtains. They must be 2¼ metres high on the bronze bases.

These are the clothes that they must make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a long shirt, a linen hat, and a long belt of cloth. They must make these special clothes for your brother Aaron and for his sons. Then Aaron and his sons will serve me as my priests.

The workers who have special skills must use beautiful material that is gold, blue, purple and red, as well as good linen.

The ephod

Use gold, blue, purple and red material, as well as good linen, to make the ephod. A worker should use special skills to make it so that it looks beautiful.

Make a beautiful belt to tie around the ephod. The belt and the ephod must be one piece of work. Use the same materials to make both of them: gold, blue, purple and red material, and good linen.

The breastpiece

A worker must use special skills to make a breastpiece so that it looks beautiful. The breastpiece will help the priest to know what God is saying. Make it like the ephod. Use gold, blue, purple and red material, and good linen to make it.

Fix a blue string to the plate and tie it to the front of the linen hat.

Use good linen to make the long shirt and the hat for the priest. A worker with special skills must make the long belt, so that it looks beautiful.

Use good linen to make trousers that will cover the lower parts of their bodies.

Put the linen hat on Aaron's head. Fix the special gold sign to the hat.

blue, purple and red material; good linen, goats' hair;

Everyone who had blue, purple or red material, or good linen, brought it. They also brought goats' hair, red leather from sheep's skins and other kinds of good leather.

All the women who knew how to make things used their hands to make material. They brought what they had made: blue, purple and red material and good linen.

They have special skills to make all kinds of things. They can draw pictures of the things that they want to make. They can cut pictures in metal. They can use blue, purple and red material and good linen to make beautiful things with pictures on them. They are very clever at their work, so that the things that they make look beautiful.’

The tabernacle

All the workers who had special skills made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They used very good linen, as well as blue, purple and red material. They made beautiful pictures of cherubs on the curtains.

The workers used blue, purple and red material, and good linen to make a special curtain. A worker used special skills to make pictures of cherubs on it.

They made a curtain for the entrance of the tent. They used blue, purple and red material and good linen to make it. A worker used special skills to make it, so that it looked beautiful.

The yard of the tabernacle

Bezalel made the yard around the tent. The south side of the yard was 45 metres long. It had curtains that were made from good linen.