1. So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.”
2. Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.
3. They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
4. So all the skilled workers who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left what they were doing
5. and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the Lord commanded to be done.”
6. Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,
7. because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.
8. All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.
9. All the curtains were the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
10. They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five.
11. Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set.
12. They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
13. Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the two sets of curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.
14. They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether.
15. All eleven curtains were the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
16. They joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another set.
17. Then they made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.