“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put
skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the
construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all
that the LORD has commanded.”
And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose
mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to
come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the
contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the
work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill
offerings every morning, so that all the craftsmen who were doing
every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that
he was doing, and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than
enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do.” So
Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp,
“Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the
sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing, for the
material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.
And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with
ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and
purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked. The
length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of
each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.
He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five
curtains he coupled to one another. He made loops of blue on the
edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made
them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set. He
made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the
edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were
opposite one another. And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled
the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle was a
single whole.
He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the
tabernacle. He made eleven curtains. The length of each curtain was
thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The
eleven curtains were the same size. He coupled five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by themselves. And he made fifty loops
on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty
loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. And he made
fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be
a single whole. And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams'
skins and goatskins.
Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia
wood. Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half
the breadth of each frame. Each frame had two tenons for fitting
together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle. The
frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south
side. And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames,
two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under
the next frame for its two tenons. For the second side of the
tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames and their
forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases
under the next frame. For the rear of the tabernacle westward he
made six frames. He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle
in the rear. And they were separate beneath but joined at the top,
at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two
corners. There were eight frames with their bases of silver:
sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.
He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side
of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the other side
of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle
at the rear westward. And he made the middle bar to run from end to
end halfway up the frames. And he overlaid the frames with gold,
and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid
the bars with gold.
He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine
twined linen; with cherubim skillfully worked into it he made it.
And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with
gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of
silver. He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue
and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered
with needlework, and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid
their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five
bases were of bronze.
