The People Bring More than Enough
1. So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person are to carry out everything commanded by the LORD, who has given them skill and understanding to know how to perform all the work of constructing the sanctuary.
2. Then Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person whom the LORD had gifted—everyone whose heart stirred him to volunteer to do the work.
3. They received from Moses all the offerings that the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
4. So all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work
5. and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do.”
6. Then Moses issued a command, and a proclamation was circulated throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing more,
7. because what they already had was more than enough to perform all the work.
The Ten Curtains for the Tabernacle
8. All the skilled craftsmen among those who were doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely spun linen, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
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 together and did the same with the other five.
11. Then he made loops of blue yarn along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and the same was done with the outermost curtain in the second set.
12. He made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, with the loops opposite each other.
13. Then he made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together so that the tabernacle became a single unit.
The Eleven Curtains of Goat Hair
14. He made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether.
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 together, and he joined the other six together.
17. Then he made fifty loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
18. He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a single unit.
19. Then he made a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and another covering of fine leather to go over that.
The Frames and Bases
20. Then 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 apiece for fitting together. He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
23. He made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
24. and forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
25. For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, he made twenty frames
26. and their forty silver bases, two under each frame.
27. He made six frames for the far end of the tabernacle, the west side.
28. He also made two frames for the corners of the tabernacle at the far end.
29. At these two corners the frames were doubled at the bottom and fitted together at the top by a single ring. Both were like this for both corners.
30. So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.
31. Then he made crossbars of acacia wood—five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
32. five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.
33. He made the center crossbar to run from end to end halfway up the frames.
34. He overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars, and he overlaid the crossbars with gold as well.
The Veil
35. Then he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
36. He made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold, along with gold hooks, and he cast four silver bases for the posts.
The Curtain for the Entrance
37. Then he made a screen for the entrance to the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, the work of an embroiderer,
38. and its five posts with their hooks. He overlaid their tops and bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze.