Exodus 26:1-9 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. Furnish the sacred tent with curtains made from ten pieces of the finest linen. They must be woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures.

2. Make each piece twelve metres long and two metres wide

3. and sew them together into two curtains with five sections each.

4-6. Put fifty loops of blue cloth along one of the wider sides of each curtain, then fasten the two curtains at the loops with fifty gold hooks.

7-8. As the material for the tent, use goat hair to weave eleven sections thirteen metres by two metres each.

9. Sew five of the sections together to make one panel. Then sew the other six together to make a second panel, and fold the sixth section double over the front of the tent.

12-13. The panel of goat hair will be a metre longer than the tent itself, so fold fifty centimetres of the material behind the tent and on each side as a protective covering.

18-21. Place two silver stands under each frame with sockets for the pegs, so the frames can be joined together. Twenty of these frames are to be used along the south side and twenty more along the north.

23-24. with two more at the south-west and north-west corners. Make certain that these corner frames are joined from top to bottom.

26-27. Make five crossbars for each of the wooden frames,

31-33. Make a curtain to separate the holy place from the most holy place. Use fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. Cover four acacia wood posts with gold and set them each on a silver stand. Then fasten gold hooks to the posts and hang the curtain there.

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