Exodus 26:11-30 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

11. and fasten the two panels at the loops with fifty bronze hooks.

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.

14. Make two more coverings—one with ram skins dyed red and the other with fine leather.

15. Build a framework of acacia wood for the walls of the sacred tent.

16. Each frame is to be four metres high and sixty-six centimetres wide

17. with two wooden pegs near the bottom.

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.

22. For the back wall along the west side use six frames

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.

25. Altogether, this back wall will have eight frames with two silver stands under each one.

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

28. with the centre crossbar running the full length of the wall.

29. Cover the frames and the crossbars with gold and attach gold rings to the frames to run the crossbars through.

30. Then set up the tent in the way I showed you on the mountain.

Exodus 26