Exodus 26:1-30
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.
15“Then you shall make athe boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. 16“Ten cubits shall be the length of 1each board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board. 17“There shall be two 1tenons for each board, 2fitted to one another; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18“You shall make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards 1for the south side. 19“You shall make forty abases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons; 20and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, 21and their forty bases of silver; two bases under one board and two bases under another board. 22“For the 1rear 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 1rear. 24“They shall be 1separated beneath, but together at their completion 2at its top, 3at the first ring; thus it shall be with both of them: they shall form the two corners. 25“There shall be eight boards with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one board and two bases under another board.
26“Then you shall make abars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, 27and five bars for the boards of the 1other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the 2rear side to the west. 28“The middle bar in the 1center of the boards shall pass through from end to end. 29“You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold. 30“Then you shall erect the tabernacle aaccording to its 1plan which you have been shown in the mountain.