[1] Bez'alel and Oho'liab and every able man in whom the LORD has put
ability 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." [2] And Moses called Bez'alel and Oho'liab and every able man
in whose mind the LORD had put ability, every one whose heart stirred him
up to come to do the work; [3] and they received from Moses all the
freewill offering which the people of Israel had brought for doing the work
on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every
morning, [4] so that all the able men who were doing every sort of task on
the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, [5] and said to
Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the
LORD has commanded us to do." [6] So Moses gave command, and word was
proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let neither man nor woman do anything more
for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from
bringing; [7] for the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and
more. [8] And all the able men among the workmen made the tabernacle with
ten curtains; they were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and
scarlet stuff, with cherubim skilfully worked. [9] The length of each
curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four
cubits; all the curtains had the same measure. [10] And he coupled five
curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one
another. [11] And he made loops of blue on the edge of the outmost curtain
of the first set; likewise he made them on the edge of the outmost curtain
of the second set; [12] 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. [13] And he made fifty clasps of gold, and
coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps; so the tabernacle was
one whole. [14] He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the
tabernacle; he made eleven curtains. [15] The length of each curtain was
thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven
curtains had the same measure. [16] He coupled five curtains by themselves,
and six curtains by themselves. [17] And he made fifty loops on the edge of
the outmost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the
other connecting curtain. [18] And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple
the tent together that it might be one whole. [19] And he made for the tent
a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins. [20] Then he made the
upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. [21] Ten cubits was the
length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. [22]
Each frame had two tenons, for fitting together; he did this for all the
frames of the tabernacle. [23] The frames for the tabernacle he made thus:
twenty frames for the south side; [24] and he made forty bases of silver
under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and
two bases under another frame for its two tenons. [25] And for the second
side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames [26] and
their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under
another frame. [27] And for the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six
frames. [28] And he made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the
rear. [29] And they were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the
first ring; he made two of them thus, for the two corners. [30] There were
eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame
two bases. [31] And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the
one side of the tabernacle, [32] 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. [33] And he made the middle bar to pass through from end
to end halfway up the frames. [34] And he overlaid the frames with gold,
and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the
bars with gold. [35] And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet
stuff and fine twined linen; with cherubim skilfully worked he made it.
[36] 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.
[37] He also made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and
scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework; [38] and
its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their
fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.