Exodus 26:1-14
Read Exodus 26 in full →Instructions for Making the Tabernacle
26“aMoreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and 1blue and purple and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful designer. 2“The length of each curtain shall be 1twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four 2cubits; all the curtains shall have 3the same measurements. 3“Five curtains shall be 1joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be 2joined to one another. 4“And you shall make loops of 1blue on the edge of the 2outermost curtain in the one set, and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second 3set. 5“You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the 1edge of the curtain that is in the second 2set; the loops shall be opposite each other. 6“You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and you shall 1join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the 2tabernacle will be a unit.
7“Then ayou shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains in all. 8“The length of each curtain shall be 1thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have 2the same measurements. 9“And you shall 1join five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain 2at the front of the tent. 10“You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the 1curtain that is outermost in the one 2set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second 3set.
11“You shall make fifty clasps of 1bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and 2join the tent together so that it will be one unit. 12“The 1overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle. 13“The cubit on one side and the cubit on the other, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall lap over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and on the other to cover it. 14“aYou shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins 1dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.