Exodus 26:1-14

1Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of very good linen. Also use blue, purple and red material. Tell a worker to use special skills to make pictures of cherubs on the curtains.

2All the curtains must be the same size: 12 metres long and 2 metres wide.

3Join five of the curtains together. Do the same thing with the other five curtains.

4Fix rings of blue material along the edge of the last curtain in each set of five curtains.

5Put 50 rings on the edge of the first set. Put 50 rings on the edge of the other set. Do this so that the rings on one curtain are opposite to the rings on the other curtain.

6Then use 50 small gold hooks to join the curtains together. In this way, a single piece of curtain will make the whole tabernacle.

7Use goats' hair to make 11 curtains. They will cover the tabernacle, like a tent.

8All the curtains must be the same size: 13.5 metres long and 2 metres wide.

9Join five of the curtains together to make one set. Fix the other six curtains together to make a second set. Turn the sixth curtain of this set over itself to cover the entrance of the tent.

10Use material to make 50 rings along the edge of the end curtain in each set.

11Then make 50 bronze hooks. Use them to join the two sets of curtains together so that it makes a single tent.

12The curtains for the tent will be longer than the curtains for the tabernacle. The extra half of the curtain for the tent will hang at the back of the tabernacle.

13The curtains of the tent will be half a metre longer on both sides. The extra material will hang over each side of the tabernacle to cover it completely.

14Use red leather from sheep's skins to cover the tent. Then use another kind of good leather to cover the red leather.