because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.

The tabernacle

All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands. All the curtains were the same size – twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 36:9 That is, about 13 metres long and 1.8 metres wide