Exodus 26:15–37

¹⁵You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. ¹⁶Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.^{e 17}Two tenons^f must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

¹⁸Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle, ¹⁹with forty silver bases under the twenty frames — two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

²⁰For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames ²¹and forty silver bases — two bases under each frame.

²²Make six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side, ²³and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle, ²⁴coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners. ²⁵So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases — two under each frame.

²⁶You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

²⁸The central crossbar in the middle of the frames shall extend from one end to the other. ²⁹Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

³⁰So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

³¹Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it. ³²Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases. ³³And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony^g behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.^h

³⁴Put the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place. ³⁵And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.

³⁶For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. ³⁷Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold, use hooks of gold, and cast five bronze bases for them.’’