¹Then Bezalel and Aholiab started work, as did every skilful man in whom the Lord had put wisdom and understanding, so that they would know how to make all the artisanry of the work of the holy place, according to everything that the Lord had commanded. ²And Moses called for Bezalel and for Aholiab and for every skilful man in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom – everyone whose heart had impelled him to launch into the artisanry and to make it. ³And they took from Moses all the heave-offering which the sons of Israel had brought for the artisanry of the work of the holy place, with which to make it, and they brought an additional freewill-offering to him each morning. ⁴And all the skilled men who were making all the artisanry of the holy place came, each one from his work which they were doing. ⁵And they spoke with Moses and said, “The people are bringing more than enough for the work of the artisanry which the Lord commanded them to make.” ⁶Then Moses gave the commandment, and they caused word to be passed around in the camp and said, “Don't let any man or woman make any more contribution to the heave-offering of the holy place.” So the people were restrained from bringing anything more. ⁷And the materials were sufficient for them, for all the artisanry, to make it, and there was surplus. ⁸And all the skilled men among those making the artisanry made the tabernacle, ten curtains, fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material. As for the cherubim, it was with the work of a damask weaver that he made them. ⁹The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width was four cubits for one curtain. There was one size for all the curtains. ¹⁰Then he joined the five curtains one to another, and he joined another five curtains one to another. ¹¹And he made loops of blue material on the hem of one curtain at the joining edge, and he did so at the hem of the last curtain, at the second join. ¹²He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was at the second join, and the loops held each other together. ¹³And he made fifty golden clasps, and he joined one curtain to another with the clasps, and the tabernacle became a unity. ¹⁴And he made curtains of goat's hair for the tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven of these curtains. ¹⁵The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of one curtain was four cubits, and the eleven curtains were of one size. ¹⁶And he joined the five curtains separately, and the six curtains separately. ¹⁷And he made fifty loops on the hem of the last curtain at the join, and he made fifty loops on the hem of the other adjoining curtain. ¹⁸And he made fifty copper clasps to join the tent up into a unity. ¹⁹And he made a covering for the tent from rams' skins dyed red, and a covering from badgers' skins above it. ²⁰And he made the boards for the tabernacle from acacia wood, standing vertically. ²¹The length was ten cubits per board, and the width of one board was one and a half cubits. ²²Two tenons per board were each joined to its counterpart. That is how he made it for all the boards of the tabernacle. ²³So he made the boards for the tabernacle – twenty boards – on the south side, south-facing. ²⁴And he made forty silver sockets to go under the twenty boards – two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. ²⁵And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, ²⁶and their forty silver sockets, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²⁷And he made six boards for the flanks of the tabernacle on the west. ²⁸And he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle on the flanks. ²⁹And they were coupled from below, and they were perfectly aligned up to the top of it, to a ring. He made the two of them this way for the two corners. ³⁰And there were eight boards and their silver sockets – sixteen sockets – two sockets each time under one board. ³¹And he made bolts of acacia wood – five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle, ³²and five bolts for the boards on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bolts for the boards of the tabernacle on the western flank. ³³And he made the middle bolt to pass inside the boards from end to end. ³⁴And he overlaid the boards with gold, and he made their rings of gold, as receptacles for the bolts, and he overlaid the bolts with gold. ³⁵And he made the veil in blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen – the work of a damask weaver. He made it with cherubim. ³⁶And he made four acacia columns for it, and he overlaid them with gold, and he made their golden hooks, and he cast four silver sockets for them. ³⁷And he made a screen for the entrance to the tent, from blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, ³⁸and its five columns and their hooks, and he overlaid their capitals and their connecting rods with gold, and he made their five sockets of copper.