1 “You shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. You shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman. 2 Each curtain shall be about forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All the curtains shall have the same measurements. 3 Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another. 4 You shall make loops of blue yarn on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. 5 You shall make fifty loops on the one curtain, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. The loops shall be opposite one another. 6 You shall make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be one whole.

7 You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains. 8 Each curtain shall be about forty-five feet long and six feet wide. The eleven curtains shall have the same measurements. 9 You shall join five curtains in one set and six curtains in another set, and fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent. 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. 11 You shall make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together, so that it may be one whole. 12 The excess that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13 The extra length of the tent curtains, about eighteen inches on one side and eighteen inches on the other, shall hang down over both sides of the tabernacle to cover it. 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of fine leather above it.

15 You shall make upright boards of acacia wood for the tabernacle. 16 Each board shall be about fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide. 17 Each board shall have two tenons fitted to one another. You shall make all the boards of the tabernacle this way. 18 You shall make twenty boards for the south side of the tabernacle. 19 You shall make forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons. 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north, there shall be twenty boards, 21 and their forty silver bases, two bases under one board and two bases under another board. 22 For the back of the tabernacle, toward the west, you shall make six boards. 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the back. 24 They shall be paired at the bottom and together form a whole at the top, up to the single ring. Both shall be made this way; they shall be for the two corners. 25 There shall be eight boards with their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under one board and two bases under another board. 26 You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, 27 five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards at the back of the tabernacle, toward the west. 28 The middle bar shall pass through the midst of the boards 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 You shall set up the tabernacle according to its prescribed form, which you were shown on the mountain.

31 You shall make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen. It shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman. 32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with gold hooks, on four silver bases. 33 You shall hang the veil under the clasps and bring the ark of the Testimony there, inside the veil. The veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place. 35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. You shall put the table on the north side. 36 You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. 37 You shall make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bronze bases for them.”