17. He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.
18. He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
19. He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
20. He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
21. Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
22. Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
23. He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.
24. He made 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.
25. For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
26. and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
27. For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.