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Exodus 36:6-18 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

6. So Moses sent word for the people to stop giving, and they did.

7. But there was already more than enough to do what needed to be done.

8-9. The skilled workers got together to make the sacred tent and its linen curtains woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. Each of the ten panels was twelve metres long and two metres wide,

10. and they were sewn together to make two curtains with five panels each.

11-13. Then fifty loops of blue cloth were put along one of the wider sides of each curtain, and the two curtains were fastened together at the loops with fifty gold hooks.

14-15. As the material for the tent, goat hair was used to weave eleven sections thirteen metres by two metres each.

16. These eleven sections were joined to make two panels, one with five and the other with six sections.

17. Fifty loops were put along one of the wider sides of each panel,

18. and the two panels were fastened at the loops with fifty bronze hooks.

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