Exodus 26

¹ The tabernacle itself you are to make with ten sheets of fine twined linen, of purple stuffs, violet shade and red, and of crimson stuffs; you are to have these sheets finely brocaded with cherubs.

² The length of a single sheet is to be twenty-eight cubits, its width four cubits, all the sheets to be of the same size.

³ Five of the sheets must be joined to each other, and the other five similarly.

⁴ You must attach loops of violet stuff to the border of the last sheet in one set, and do the same for the border of the last sheet in the other set.

⁵ You are to put fifty loops on the first sheet and, matching them one by one, fifty loops on the border of the last sheet in the second set.

⁶ And you are to make fifty gold clasps to draw the sheets together. In this way the tabernacle will be a unified whole.

⁷ ‘You are to make sheets of goats’ hair to form a tent over the tabernacle; you will make eleven of these.

⁸ The length of a single sheet is to be thirty cubits, its width four cubits, the eleven sheets to be all of the same size.

⁹ You must join five of these sheets together into one set, the remaining six into another; the sixth you will fold double over the front of the tent.

¹⁰ You must attach fifty loops to the border of the last sheet in one set, and do the same for the border of the last sheet in the second set.

¹¹ You must make fifty bronze clasps and put them into the loops, so as to draw the tent together and make it a unified whole.

¹² ‘As one sheet of the tent will be left over, half of this extra sheet is to hang over the back of the tabernacle.

¹³ The extra cubit on either side along the length of the tent sheets is to hang over the sides of the tabernacle as a covering for it.

¹⁴ ‘For the tent you will further make a covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of fine leather to spread over that.

¹⁵ ‘You are to make frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle, these to stand upright.

¹⁶ Each frame is to be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

¹⁷ Each frame must be fitted with twin tenons; for all the frames of the tabernacle you must do this.

¹⁸ You are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the southern side, facing the south country.

¹⁹ You are to make forty silver sockets for putting under the twenty frames thus: two sockets under the first frame to receive its two tenons, and so on for the other frames.

²⁰ The other side of the tabernacle, on the north, is to have twenty frames

²¹ supported by forty silver sockets, two sockets under each frame.

²² For the back of the tabernacle, on the west, you must make six frames.

²³ You are to make two frames for the corners at the back of the tabernacle.

²⁴ These frames must be coupled at their lower end and so to the top, up to the level of the first ring; this for the two frames that are to form the two corners.

²⁵ Thus there will be eight frames with their sixteen silver sockets: two sockets under the first frame and so on.

²⁶ ‘You are to make crossbars of acacia wood: five to hold together the frames for one side of the tabernacle,

²⁷ five to hold the frames for the other side of the tabernacle, and five to hold the frames that form the west end of the tabernacle.

²⁸ The middle bar, fixed half-way up, is to run from one end to the other.

²⁹ The frames are to be plated with gold, and with gold rings on them to take the cross-bars which you are to plate with gold.

³⁰ This is how you are to erect the tabernacle according to the model shown to you on the mountain.

³¹ ‘You are to make a veil of purple stuffs, violet shade and red, of crimson stuffs, and of fine twined linen; you are to have it finely embroidered with cherubs.

³² You are to hang it on four posts of acacia wood plated with gold and furnished with golden hooks and set in four silver sockets.

³³ You must hang the veil from the clasps and there behind the veil you must place the ark of the Testimony, and the veil will serve you to separate the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies.

³⁴ The throne of mercy you must place on top of the ark inside the Holy of Holies.

³⁵ The table you must set outside the veil, and the lamp-stand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table. You must put the table on the north side.

³⁶ For the entrance to the tent you are to make a screen of purple stuffs, violet shade and red, and of crimson stuffs and fine twined linen, the work of a skilled embroiderer.

³⁷ For this screen you are to make five posts of acacia wood plated with gold, with golden hooks; for these you are to cast five bronze sockets.