CHAPTER 26

¹“And the Tabernacle you shall make with ten panels of twisted linen, and indigo and purple and crimson, with cherubim, designer’s work you shall make them. ²The length of the panel is twenty-eight cubits, and a width of four cubits to the one panel, a single measure for all the panels. ³Five of the panels shall be joined to each other and the other five joined to each other. ⁴And you shall make indigo loops along the edge of the outermost panel in the set, and thus shall you do on the edge of the outermost panel in the other set. ⁵Fifty loops you shall make in the one panel and fifty loops you shall make in the outermost panel which is in the other set, the loops opposite one another. ⁶And you shall make fifty golden clasps, and you shall join the panels to one another with the clasps, that the Tabernacle be one whole. ⁷And you shall make goat-hair panels for a tent over the Tabernacle, eleven panels you shall make them. ⁸The length of the one panel, thirty cubits, and a width of four cubits to the panel, a single measure for the eleven panels. ⁹And you shall join five of the panels by themselves and six of the panels by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth panel at the front of the tent. ¹⁰And you shall make fifty loops along the edge of the outermost panel in the one set, and fifty loops along the edge of the outermost panel in the other set. ¹¹And you shall make fifty bronze clasps and bring the clasps through the loops, and you shall join the tent, that it become one whole. ¹²And the overhang left over in the tent panels, half of the leftover panel you shall let hang over the back of the Tabernacle. ¹³And the cubit on one side and the cubit on the other in what is left over in the length of the tent panels shall hang over both sides of the Tabernacle to cover it. ¹⁴And you shall make a covering for the tent of reddened ram skins and a covering of ocher-dyed skins above. ¹⁵And you shall make boards for the Tabernacle of acacia wood, upright. ¹⁶Ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of the single board. ¹⁷Two tenons for the one board linked to each other, thus you shall do for all the boards of the Tabernacle. ¹⁸And you shall make the boards for the Tabernacle, twenty boards for the southern end. ¹⁹And forty silver sockets you shall make beneath the twenty boards, two sockets beneath the one board for its two tenons and two sockets beneath the other board for its two tenons. ²⁰And on the other side of the Tabernacle at the northern end, twenty boards. ²¹And their forty silver sockets, two sockets beneath the one board and two sockets beneath the other board. ²²And at the rear of the Tabernacle to the west you shall make six boards. ²³And two boards you shall make for the corners of the Tabernacle at the rear. ²⁴And they shall match below, and together they shall end at the top inside the one ring, thus it shall be for the two of them, at the two corners they shall be. ²⁵And there shall be eight boards with their silver sockets, sixteen sockets, two sockets beneath the one board and two sockets beneath the next board. ²⁶And you shall make crossbars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the Tabernacle. ²⁷And five crossbars for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle, and five crossbars for the side of the Tabernacle at the rear to the west. ²⁸And the central crossbar in the middle board shall shoot through from end to end. ²⁹And the boards you shall overlay with gold, and their rings you shall make of gold, housings for the crossbars, and you shall overlay the crossbars with gold. ³⁰And you shall set up the Tabernacle according to the fashion of it that you were shown on the mountain.

³¹“And you shall make a curtain of indigo and purple and crimson and twisted linen, designer’s work it shall be made, with cherubim. ³²And you shall set it on the four acacia posts overlaid with gold, their hooks gold, upon four silver sockets. ³³And you shall set the curtain under the clasps and you shall bring there, within the curtain, the Ark of the Covenant, and the curtain shall divide for you between the Holy and the Holy of Holies. ³⁴And you shall set the cover over the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies. ³⁵And you shall put the table outside the curtain and the lamp stand facing the table on the side of the Tabernacle to the south, and the table you shall set on the northern side. ³⁶And you shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, indigo and purple and crimson and twisted linen, embroiderer’s work. ³⁷And you shall make for the screen five acacia posts, and you shall overlay them with gold, their hooks gold, and you shall cast for them five bronze sockets.”