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26:1  ‘Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker.
26:2  All the curtains are to be the same size – twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
26:3  Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.
26:4  Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set.
26:5  Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
26:6  Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.
26:7  ‘Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle – eleven altogether.
26:8  All eleven curtains are to be the same size – thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
26:9  Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.
26:10  Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
26:11  Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.
26:12  As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.
26:13  The tent curtains will be a cubit longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it.
26:14  Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of other durable leather.
26:15  ‘Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
26:16  Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
26:17  with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
26:18  Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
26:19  and make forty silver bases to go under them – two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
26:20  For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, make twenty frames
26:21  and forty silver bases – two under each frame.
26:22  Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
26:23  and make two frames for the corners at the far end.
26:24  At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that.
26:25  So there will be eight frames and sixteen silver bases – two under each frame.
26:26  ‘Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
26:27  five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.
26:28  The centre crossbar is to extend from end to end at the middle of the frames.
26:29  Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
26:30  ‘Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.
26:31  ‘Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker.
26:32  Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
26:33  Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
26:34  Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place.
26:35  Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
26:36  ‘For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen – the work of an embroiderer.
26:37  Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.