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.
26. You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
27. and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the back to the west.
28. The middle bar in the center of the boards shall reach from end to end.
29. You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
30. You shall set up the tabernacle according to the plan which you have been shown on the mountain.
31. You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim, the skillful work of a workman.
32. You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks also shall be of gold on four sockets of silver.
33. You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, so that you may bring in the ark of the testimony within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the Most Holy.
34. You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy.