The Tabernacle^(A)

26 Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet. Make them with cherubim, the work of a skilled workman. ² The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits.^[a] All of the curtains shall have the same measurements. ³ Five curtains shall be joined together, one to another. And the other five curtains are to be joined, one to another. ⁴ You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the end curtain in one set, and likewise you shall make loops in the outermost edge of the end curtain in the second set. ⁵ You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second set. The loops are to be opposite to one another. ⁶ You shall make fifty clasps of gold and join the curtains together with the clasps so that the tabernacle shall be one unit.

⁷ You shall make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains. ⁸ The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits,^[b] and the eleven curtains shall all have the same measure. ⁹ You shall join five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. You shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tabernacle. ¹⁰ You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that joins the second set. ¹¹ You shall make fifty bronze clasps, and put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together so that it may be one unit. ¹² The part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. ¹³ A cubit^[c] on the one side and a cubit on the other side of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side to cover it. ¹⁴ You shall make a covering for the tent out of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering above of porpoise skins.

¹⁵ You shall make boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. ¹⁶ Ten cubits^[d] shall be the length of each board, and a cubit and a half shall be the width of each board. ¹⁷ There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another. You shall make all the boards of the tabernacle in this way. ¹⁸ You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side. ¹⁹ You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. ²⁰ For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, there shall be twenty boards, ²¹ and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²² For the back of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six boards. ²³ You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the back. ²⁴ They shall be doubled together beneath and finished together at the top of it into one ring. So it shall be for both of them. They shall form the two corners. ²⁵ There shall be eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

²⁶ You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷ and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the back to the west. ²⁸ The middle bar in the center of the boards shall reach from end to end. ²⁹ You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

³⁰ You shall set up the tabernacle according to the plan which you have been shown on the mountain.

³¹ You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim, the skillful work of a workman. ³² You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks also shall be of gold on four sockets of silver. ³³ You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, so that you may bring in the ark of the testimony within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the Most Holy. ³⁴ You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy. ³⁵ You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south, and you shall put the table on the north side.

³⁶ You shall make a screen for the doorway of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. ³⁷ You shall make five pillars of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold, with their hooks also made of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.