Exodus 36

36“Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other workers to whom the Lord has given skill and understanding, who know how to make everything needed to build the sacred Tent, are to make everything just as the Lord has commanded.”

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²Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other skilled men to whom the Lord had given ability and who were willing to help, and Moses told them to start working. ³They received from him all the offerings which the Israelites had brought for constructing the sacred Tent. But the people of Israel continued to bring Moses their offerings every morning. ⁴Then the skilled men who were doing the work went ⁵and reported to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the work which the Lord commanded to be done.”

⁶So Moses sent a command throughout the camp that no one was to make any further contribution for the sacred Tent; so the people did not bring any more. ⁷What had already been brought was more than enough to finish all the work.

⁸The most skilled men among those doing the work made the Tent of the Lord’s presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. ⁹Each piece was the same size, 12 metres long and 2 metres wide. ¹⁰They sewed five of them together in one set and did the same with the other five. ¹¹They made loops of blue cloth on the edge of the outside piece in each set. ¹²They put 50 loops on the first piece of the first set and 50 loops matching them on the last piece of the second set. ¹³They made 50 gold hooks, with which to join the two sets into one piece.

¹⁴Then they made a cover for the Tent out of eleven pieces of cloth made of goats’ hair. ¹⁵They made them all the same size, 13 metres long and 2 metres wide. ¹⁶They sewed five of them together in one set and the other six in another set. ¹⁷They put 50 loops on the edge of the last piece of one set and 50 loops on the edge of the other set. ¹⁸They made 50 bronze hooks to join the two sets, so as to form one cover. ¹⁹They made two more coverings, one of rams’ skin dyed red and the other of fine leather, to serve as an outer cover.

²⁰They made upright frames of acacia wood for the Tent. ²¹Each frame was 4 metres tall and 66 centimetres wide, ²²with two matching projections, so that the frames could be joined together. All the frames had these projections. ²³They made twenty frames for the south side ²⁴and 40 silver bases to go under them, two bases under each frame to hold its two projections. ²⁵They made twenty frames for the north side of the Tent ²⁶and 40 silver bases, two under each frame. ²⁷For the back of the Tent, on the west, they made six frames ²⁸and two frames for the corners. ²⁹These corner frames were joined at the bottom and connected all the way to the top. The two frames that formed the two corners were made in this way. ³⁰So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases, two under each frame.

³¹They made fifteen crossbars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the Tent, ³²five for the frames on the other side, and five for the frames on the west end, at the back. ³³The middle crossbar, set halfway up the frames, extended from one end of the Tent to the other. ³⁴They covered the frames with gold and fitted them with gold rings to hold the crossbars, which were also covered with gold.

³⁵They made a curtain of fine linen, woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered it with figures of winged creatures. ³⁶They made four posts of acacia wood to hold the curtain, covered them with gold, and fitted them with gold hooks. Then they made four silver bases to hold the posts. ³⁷For the entrance of the Tent they made a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery. ³⁸For this curtain they made five posts fitted with hooks, covered their tops and their rods with gold, and made five bronze bases for the posts.