³⁸ You should also make its tongs and fire pans out of pure gold. ³⁹ All these items should be made from pure gold weighing one kikkar. ⁴⁰ See to it that you make them according to the blueprint for them that you were shown on the mountain.

Instructions for building the dwelling

26 Make the dwelling with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and deep red yarns. Work figures of winged heavenly creatures into their design. ² Each curtain should be forty-two feet long and each curtain six feet wide. All the curtains should be the same size. ³ Five curtains will be joined to each other as one set, while the other five curtains will be joined together as a second set. ⁴ Make loops of blue thread on the edge of the outer curtain in the first set. Do the same on the edge of the outer curtain in the second set. ⁵ Make fifty loops on the one curtain in the first set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set. The loops should be opposite each other. ⁶ Then make fifty gold clasps. Join the curtains to each other with the clasps so that the dwelling becomes one whole structure.

⁷ You should also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the dwelling. Make eleven curtains.