Exodus 26:1-16

1“You 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 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 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 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.

14Make a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red and a covering of fine leather on top of that.

15“You are to make upright supports of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

16Each support is to be fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide.