Exodus 26:1–13

THE TABERNACLE

26“You^k are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains. You must make them of finely spun linen, and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them. ²Each curtain should be forty-two feet^G long and six feet wide; all the curtains are to have the same measurements. ³Five of the curtains should be joined together, and the other five curtains joined together. ⁴Make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the first set, and do the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. ⁵Make fifty loops on the one curtain and make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops line up together. ⁶Also make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single unit.

⁷“You are to make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; make eleven of these curtains. ⁸Each curtain should be forty-five feet^A long and six feet wide. All eleven curtains are to have the same measurements. ⁹Join five of the curtains by themselves, and the other six curtains by themselves. Then fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent. ¹⁰Make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain, the outermost in the first set, and make fifty loops on the edge of the corresponding curtain of the second set. ¹¹Make fifty bronze clasps; put the clasps through the loops and join the tent together so that it is a single unit. ¹²As for the flap that remains from the tent curtains, the leftover half curtain is to hang over the back of the tabernacle. ¹³What remains along the length of the tent curtains—a half yard^B on one side and a half yard on the other side—should hang over the sides of the tabernacle on either side to cover it.