1. Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled people are to work based on everything the Lord has commanded. The Lord has given them wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
2. So Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart the Lord had placed wisdom, everyone whose heart moved him, to come to the work and do it.
3. They took from Moses’ presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
4. Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came one by one from the work they were doing
5. and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the construction of the work the Lord commanded to be done.”
6. After Moses gave an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people stopped.
7. The materials were sufficient for them to do all the work. There was more than enough.
8. All the skilled craftsmen among those doing the work made the tabernacle with 10 curtains. Bezalel made them of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with a design of cherubim worked into them.
9. The length of each curtain was 42 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet; all the curtains had the same measurements.
10. He joined five of the curtains to each other, and the other five curtains he joined to each other.
11. He made loops of blue yarn on the edge of the last curtain in the first set and did the same on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
12. He made 50 loops on the one curtain and 50 loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so that the loops lined up with each other.
13. He also made 50 gold clasps and joined the curtains to each other, so that the tabernacle became a single unit.
14. He made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made 11 of them.
15. The length of each curtain was 45 feet, and the width of each curtain six feet. All 11 curtains had the same measurements.
16. He joined five of the curtains together, and the other six together.
17. He made 50 loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set and 50 loops on the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
18. He made 50 bronze clasps to join the tent together as a single unit.
19. He also made a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red and a covering of manatee skins on top of it.
20. He made upright planks of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
21. The length of each plank was 15 feet, and the width of each was 27 inches.