1. The Lord has given to Bezalel, Oholiab, and others the skills needed for building a place of worship, and they will follow the Lord's instructions.
2. Then Moses brought together these workers who were eager to work,
3. and he gave them the money that the people of Israel had donated for building the place of worship. In fact, so much money was being given each morning,
4. that finally everyone stopped working
5. and said, “Moses, there is already more money than we need for what the Lord has assigned us to do.”
6. So Moses sent word for the people to stop giving, and they did.
7. But there was already more than enough to do what needed to be done.
8-9. The skilled workers got together to make the sacred tent and its linen curtains woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. Each of the ten panels was twelve metres long and two metres wide,
10. and they were sewn together to make two curtains with five panels each.
11-13. Then fifty loops of blue cloth were put along one of the wider sides of each curtain, and the two curtains were fastened together at the loops with fifty gold hooks.
14-15. As the material for the tent, goat hair was used to weave eleven sections thirteen metres by two metres each.
16. These eleven sections were joined to make two panels, one with five and the other with six sections.