Exodus 36:8–19

Construction of the Tabernacle

⁸All those with skill among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains; they were made of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and crimson yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.^{* 9}The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains were of the same size.

¹⁰He joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another. ¹¹He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set; likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set; ¹²he made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.^{* 13}And he made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains one to the other with clasps; so the tabernacle was one whole.

¹⁴He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.^{* 15}The length of each curtain was thirty cubits and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains were of the same size. ¹⁶He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. ¹⁷He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. ¹⁸He made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together so that it might be one whole. ¹⁹And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and an outer covering of fine leather.^x*