2. Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab. He sent for every skilled worker to whom the Lord had given ability and who wanted to come and do the work.
3. They received from Moses all of the offerings the people of Israel had brought. They had brought the offerings for all of the work for every purpose connected with the holy tent. That included setting it up. The people kept bringing the offerings they chose to give. They brought them morning after morning.
4. So all of the skilled workers who were working on the holy tent stopped what they were doing.
5. They said to Moses, "The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the Lord commanded us to do."
6. Then Moses gave an order. A message was sent through the whole camp. It said, "No man or woman should make anything else and offer it for the holy tent." And so the people were kept from bringing more offerings.
7. There was already more than enough to do all of the work.
8. All of the skilled workers made the holy tent. They made ten curtains out of finely twisted linen. They made them with blue, purple and bright red yarn. A skilled worker sewed cherubim into the pattern.
9. All of the curtains were the same size. They were 42 feet long and six feet wide.
10. The workers joined five of the curtains together. They did the same thing with the other five.
11. Then they made loops out of blue strips of cloth along the edge of the end curtain in one set. They did the same thing with the end curtain in the other set.