Dual Panel1Bezalel and Aholiab are to work exactly as the LORD has commanded, and so also is every craftsman whom the LORD has made skilful and ingenious in these matters so that they may know how to execute every kind of work for the service of the sanctuary.”
2Moses summoned Bezalel, Aholiab, and every other craftsman to whom the LORD had given skill and who was willing, to come forward and set to work.
3They took from before Moses all the contributions which the Israelites had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, but the people still brought freewill-offerings morning after morning.
4The craftsmen at work on the sanctuary therefore left what they were doing, every one of them,
5and came to Moses and said, “The people are bringing much more than we need for doing the work which the LORD has commanded.”
6So Moses sent word round the camp that no man or woman should prepare anything more as a contribution for the sanctuary. The people stopped bringing gifts;
7what was there already was more than enough for all the work they had to do.
8So all the skilled craftsmen among the workers made the Tabernacle of ten hangings of finely woven linen, and violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked on them, all made by a seamster.
9The length of each hanging was twenty-eight cubits and the breadth four cubits, all of the same size.
10They joined five of the hangings together, and similarly the other five.
11They made violet loops along the outer edge of one set of hangings and they did the same for the outer edge of the other set of hangings.
12They made fifty loops for each hanging; they made also fifty loops for the end hanging in the second set, the loops being opposite each other.
13They made fifty gold fasteners, with which they joined the hangings one to another, and the Tabernacle became a single whole.
14They made hangings of goats' hair, eleven in all, to form a tent over the Tabernacle;
15each hanging was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all eleven of the same size.
16They joined five of the hangings together, and similarly the other six.
17They made fifty loops on the edge of the last hanging in the first set and fifty loops on the joining edge of the second set,
18and fifty bronze fasteners to join up the tent and make it a single whole.
19They made for the tent a cover of tanned rams' skins and an outer covering of dugong-hides.
20They made for the Tabernacle frames of acacia-wood as uprights,
21each frame ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide,
22and two tenons for each frame joined to each other. They did the same for all the frames of the Tabernacle.
23They arranged the frames thus: twenty frames for the south side facing southwards,
24with forty silver sockets under them, two sockets under each frame for its two tenons;
25and for the second or northern side of the Tabernacle twenty frames
26with forty silver sockets, two under each frame.
27They made six frames for the far end of the Tabernacle on the west.
28They made two frames for the corners of the Tabernacle at the far end;
29at the bottom they were alike, and at the top, both alike, they fitted into a single ring. They did the same for both of them at the two corners.
30There were eight frames with their silver sockets, sixteen sockets in all, two sockets under each frame.
31They made bars of acacia-wood: five for the frames on one side of the Tabernacle,
32five bars for the frames on the second side of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the far end of the Tabernacle on the west.
33They made the middle bar to run along from end to end half-way up the frames.
34They overlaid the frames with gold and made rings of gold on them to hold the bars, which were also overlaid with gold.
35They made the curtain of finely woven linen and violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked on it, all made by a seamster.
36They made for it four posts of acacia-wood overlaid with gold, with gold hooks, and cast four silver sockets for them.
37For the entrance of the tent a screen of finely woven linen was made, embroidered with violet, purple, and scarlet,
38and five posts of acacia-wood with their hooks. They overlaid the tops of the posts and the bands round them with gold; the five sockets for them were of bronze.