1 "Bezalel and Oholiab are to work, together with every skilled person to whom the LORD has given wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work of building the sanctuary, doing everything just as the LORD has commanded."
2 Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person whose heart the LORD had filled with wisdom, everyone whose heart moved him to come and take part in the work.
3 From Moses they received all the contributions the children of Israel had brought for carrying out the work on the sanctuary. Meanwhile the people kept bringing him freewill offerings morning after morning.
4 So all the skilled workers who were doing the work on the sanctuary left what each of them was doing and came
5 to tell Moses, "The people are bringing far more than is needed for the work the LORD commanded us to do."
6 So Moses gave an order, and word was sent throughout the camp: "No man or woman is to make anything more as a contribution for the sanctuary." So the people were held back from bringing more,
7 because what they already had was enough to do all the work, and more than enough.
8 All the skilled workers among them made the tabernacle from ten curtains of fine twisted linen with blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman.
9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
10 He joined five of the curtains to each other and joined the other five to each other as well.
11 He made loops of blue yarn along the edge of the end curtain in the one set, and did the same along the edge of the end curtain in the second set.
12 He put fifty loops on the one curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the second set, with the loops facing each other.
13 Then he made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the curtains to each other, so that the tabernacle formed a single unit.
14 He made curtains of goats' hair as a tent to cover the tabernacle, eleven of them in all.
15 Each curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide; all eleven curtains were the same size.
16 He joined five of the curtains into one set and six into another.
17 He put fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain in the other set.
18 He made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together so that it formed a single unit.
19 For the tent he made a covering of rams' skins dyed red, and over that a covering of goatskins.
20 He made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
21 Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
22 with two tenons on each frame, set parallel to each other. He made all the frames of the tabernacle this way.
23 He made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle, the side facing the Negev,
24 and he made forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames, two bases under each frame, one for each of its two tenons.
25 For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames
26 with their forty silver bases, two under each frame.
27 For the far end of the tabernacle, the west side, he made six frames,
28 and he made two frames for the corners of the tabernacle at the far end.
29 At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom and joined all the way to the top, at the first ring; he made both corners alike.
30 So there were eight frames with their silver bases, sixteen bases in all, two under each frame.
31 He made bars of acacia wood as well: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
32 five for the frames on the other side, and five for the frames on the west side, at the far end of the tabernacle.
33 He made the center bar run through the middle of the frames from one end to the other.
34 He overlaid the frames with gold, made gold rings on them to hold the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold too.
35 He made the veil of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman.
36 For it he made four pillars of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast four silver bases for them.
37 For the entrance to the tent he made a screen of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer,
38 together with its five pillars and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the pillars and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.