Amplified Bible

Exodus 26:6-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)

6. And you shall make fifty clasps of gold and fasten the curtains together with the clasps; then the tabernacle shall be one whole.

7. And make curtains of goats' hair to be a [second] covering over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.

8. One curtain shall be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide; and the eleven curtains shall all measure the same.

9. You shall join together five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the front of the tabernacle [to make a closed door].

10. And make fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the one set and fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the second set.

11. You shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and couple the tent together, that it may be one whole.

12. The surplus that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

13. And the cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.

14. You shall make a [third] covering for the tent of rams' skins tanned red, and a [fourth] covering above that of dolphin or porpoise skins.

15. And you shall make the upright frame for the tabernacle of boards of acacia wood.

16. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

17. Make two tenons in each board for dovetailing and fitting together; so shall you do for all the tabernacle boards.

18. And make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side;