Common English Bible

Exodus 26:3-16 Common English Bible (CEB)

3. Five curtains will be joined to each other as one set, while the other five curtains will be joined together as a second set.

4. Make loops of blue thread on the edge of the outer curtain in the first set. Do the same on the edge of the outer curtain in the second set.

5. Make fifty loops on the one curtain in the first set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set. The loops should be opposite each other.

6. Then make fifty gold clasps. Join the curtains to each other with the clasps so that the dwelling becomes one whole structure.

7. You should also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the dwelling. Make eleven curtains.

8. Each curtain should be forty-five feet long and each curtain six feet wide. The eleven curtains should all be the same size.

9. Join five of the curtains together, and join the six other curtains together. Double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

10. Make fifty loops on the edge of the outer curtain in one set and fifty loops on the edge of the outer curtain in the second set.

11. Make fifty copper clasps. Put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it becomes one whole structure.

12. The extra cloth that is left over from the tent curtains, that is, the half curtain that remains, should hang over the back of the dwelling.

13. Eighteen inches on one side and eighteen inches on the other side of the leftover length of the tent’s curtains will hang over the two sides of the dwelling to cover it.

14. Then for the tent, make a covering of rams’ skins dyed red and an outer covering of beaded leather.

15. Make acacia-wood boards to stand upright as a frame for the dwelling.

16. Each board will be fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide.