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Exodus 36:12-23 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

12. Fifty loops were thus put on one inner sheet, and fifty loops on the inner sheet in the other set, with the loops directly opposite each other.

13. Then fifty clasps of gold were made, with which the sheets were joined so that the tabernacle formed one whole.

14. Sheets of goat hair were also woven as a tent over the tabernacle. Eleven such sheets were made.

15. The length of each sheet was thirty cubits and the width four cubits; all eleven sheets were the same size.

16. Five of these sheets were joined into one set, and the other six sheets into another set.

17. Fifty loops were made along the edge of the end sheet in one set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding sheet in the other set.

18. Fifty bronze clasps were made with which the tent was joined so that it formed one whole.

19. A covering for the tent was made of rams’ skins dyed red and, above that, a covering of tahash skins.

20. Frames were made for the tabernacle, acacia-wood uprights.

21. The length of each frame was ten cubits, and the width one and a half cubits.

22. Each frame had two arms, fastening them one to another. In this way all the frames of the tabernacle were made.

23. The frames for the tabernacle were made as follows: twenty frames on the south side,

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