4. You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.
5. You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite each other.
6. You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
7. "Then you shall make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains in all.
8. The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same measurements.
9. You shall join five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.
10. You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.
11. "You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it will be a unit.
12. The overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle.
13. The cubit on one side and the cubit on the other, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall lap over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and on the other, to cover it.
14. You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of porpoise skins above.
15. "Then you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
16. Ten cubits shall be the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
17. There shall be two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.
18. You shall make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side.
19. You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons;
20. and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,