New English Translation

Exodus 36:20-37 New English Translation (NET)

20. He made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.

21. The length of each frame was fifteen feet, the width of each frame was two and a quarter feet,

22. with two projections per frame parallel one to another. He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

23. So he made frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side.

24. He made forty silver bases under the twenty frames – two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise two bases under the next frame for its two projections,

25. and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames

26. and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next frame.

27. And for the back of the tabernacle on the west he made six frames.

28. He made two frames for the corners of the tabernacle on the back.

29. At the two corners they were doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both.

30. So there were eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under each frame.

31. He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle

32. and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle for the back side on the west.

33. He made the middle bar to reach from end to end in the center of the frames.

34. He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

35. He made the special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer.

36. He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

37. He made a hanging for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer,