Exodus 26:8-17

Common English Bible

⁸ Each curtain should be forty-five feet long and each curtain six feet wide. The eleven curtains should all be the same size. ⁹ Join five of the curtains together, and join the six other curtains together. Double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. ¹⁰ Make fifty loops on the edge of the outer curtain in one set and fifty loops on the edge of the outer curtain in the second set.

¹¹ Make fifty copper clasps. Put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it becomes one whole structure. ¹² The extra cloth that is left over from the tent curtains, that is, the half curtain that remains, should hang over the back of the dwelling. ¹³ Eighteen inches on one side and eighteen inches on the other side of the leftover length of the tent’s curtains will hang over the two sides of the dwelling to cover it. ¹⁴ Then for the tent, make a covering of rams’ skins dyed red and an outer covering of beaded leather.^[a]

¹⁵ Make acacia-wood boards to stand upright as a frame for the dwelling. ¹⁶ Each board will be fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide. ¹⁷ Put two pegs on each board for joining them to each other. Do this for all the dwelling’s boards.