1. So Bezalel and Oholiab, and every skilled person, in whom the Lord has put skill and understanding to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, are to do the work according to all that the Lord has commanded.
2. Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom the Lord had put wisdom, everyone whose heart stirred him to come to the work to do it.
3. They received from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had brought to do the work of the service of the sanctuary, and they continued to bring to him freewill offerings every morning.
4. And all the skilled men who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came from the work they were doing,
5. and they said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than is needed for the service of the work which the Lord commanded us to do.”
6. So Moses issued a command, and they circulated a proclamation throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more.
7. For the material they had was sufficient for all the work and more than enough to do it.
8. Every skilled man among those who were doing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim that were the work of skillful workmen.
9. The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All ofthe curtains were the same size.
10. He joined thefive curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one to another.
11. He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. He did likewise along the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.
12. He made fifty loops in the one curtain and made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another.
13. He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit.
14. He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains in all.
15. The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain was four cubits. The eleven curtains were all the same size.