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Exodus 26:11-25 Modern English Version (MEV)

11. You shall make fifty bronze clasps, and put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together so that it may be one unit.

12. The part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

13. A cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other side of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side to cover it.

14. You shall make a covering for the tent out of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering above of porpoise skins.

15. You shall make boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

16. Ten cubits shall be the length of each board, and a cubit and a half shall be the width of each board.

17. There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another. You shall make all the boards of the tabernacle in this way.

18. You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side.

19. You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

20. For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, there shall be twenty boards,

21. and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

22. For the back of the tabernacle, to the west, you shall make six boards.

23. You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the back.

24. They shall be doubled together beneath and finished together at the top of it into one ring. So it shall be for both of them. They shall form the two corners.

25. There shall be eight boards with their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

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