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Exodus 36:6-23 Good News Bible (GNB)

6. So Moses sent a command throughout the camp that no one was to make any further contribution for the sacred Tent; so the people did not bring any more.

7. What had already been brought was more than enough to finish all the work.

8. The most skilled men among those doing the work made the Tent of the Lord's presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures.

9. Each piece was the same size, twelve metres long and two metres wide.

10. They sewed five of them together in one set and did the same with the other five.

11. They made loops of blue cloth on the edge of the outside piece in each set.

12. They put fifty loops on the first piece of the first set and fifty loops matching them on the last piece of the second set.

13. They made fifty gold hooks, with which to join the two sets into one piece.

14. Then they made a cover for the Tent out of eleven pieces of cloth made of goats' hair.

15. They made them all the same size, thirteen metres long and two metres wide.

16. They sewed five of them together in one set and the other six in another set.

17. They put fifty loops on the edge of the last piece of one set and fifty loops on the edge of the other set.

18. They made fifty bronze hooks to join the two sets, so as to form one cover.

19. They made two more coverings, one of rams' skin dyed red and the other of fine leather, to serve as an outer cover.

20. They made upright frames of acacia wood for the Tent.

21. Each frame was four metres tall and 66 centimetres wide,

22. with two matching projections, so that the frames could be joined together. All the frames had these projections.

23. They made twenty frames for the south side

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