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*. / *That is, about 42 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 13 meters long and 1.8 meters 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*. / *That is, about 45 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 13.5 meters long and 1.8 meters 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. / *That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
26:14 Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather*. / *Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals (see 25:5)
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,* / *That is, about 15 feet long and 2 1/4 feet wide or about 4.5 meters long and 68 centimeters 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 center 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.