1. “So Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other skilled men must do the work the Lord has commanded. The Lord has given these men the wisdom and understanding to do all the skilled work needed to build this holy place.”
2. Then Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other skilled men who the Lord had given special skills to. And they came because they wanted to help with the work.
3. Moses gave them everything the Israelites had brought as gifts, and they used these things to build the holy place. The people continued to bring gifts each morning.
4. Finally, all the skilled workers left the work they were doing on the holy place, and they went to speak to Moses. They said,
5. “The people have brought too much. We have more than we need to finish the work the Lord told us to do.”
6. Then Moses sent this message throughout the camp: “No man or woman should make anything else as a gift for the holy place.” So the people were forced to stop giving more.
7. The people had brought more than enough things to finish the work of building God’s holy place.
8. Then the skilled workers began making the Holy Tent. They made the ten curtains from fine linen and blue, purple, and red yarn. And they sewed pictures of Cherub angels with wings into the curtains.
9. Each curtain was the same size—28 cubits long and 4 cubits wide.
10. The workers joined the curtains together into two groups of curtains. They joined five curtains together to make one group and five curtains together to make the other group.
11. Then they used blue cloth to make loops along the edge of the end curtain of one group. And they did the same on the end curtain in the other group.
12. There were 50 loops on the end curtain in one group and 50 loops on the end curtain in the other group. The loops were opposite each other.