Sinai & The Law

and the eighteen inches on the one side and the eighteen inches on the other side of that remaining in the length of the sheets forming the tent is to hang over the tabernacle to cover it on each side.

"You are to make a covering for the tent of tanned ram skins and an outer covering of fine leather.

"Make the upright planks for the tabernacle out of acacia-wood.

Each plank is to be fifteen feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet wide.

There are to be two projections on each plank, and the planks are to be joined one to another. That is how you are to make all the planks for the tabernacle.

"Make the planks for the tabernacle as follows: twenty planks for the south side, facing southward.

Make forty silver sockets under the twenty planks, two sockets under one plank for its two projections and two sockets under another plank for its two projections.

"For the second side of the tabernacle, to the north, make twenty planks

and their forty silver sockets, two sockets under one plank and two under another.

"For the rear part of the tabernacle, toward the west, make six planks.

For the corners of the tabernacle in the rear, make two planks;

these are to be double from the bottom all the way to the top but joined at a single ring. Do the same with both of them; they are to form the two corners.

Thus there will be eight planks with their silver sockets, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one plank and two under another.

"Make crossbars of acacia-wood, five for the planks of the one side of the tabernacle,

five crossbars for the planks of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the planks at the side of the tabernacle at the rear toward the west.

The middle crossbar, halfway up the planks, is to extend from end to end.

Overlay the planks with gold, make gold rings for them through which the crossbars will pass, and overlay the crossbars with gold.

"You are to erect the tabernacle according to the design you have been shown on the mountain.

"You are to make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen. Make it with k'ruvim worked in, that have been crafted by a skilled artisan.

Hang it with gold hooks on four acacia-wood posts overlaid with gold and standing in four silver sockets.

Hang the curtain below the fasteners. Then bring the ark for the testimony inside the curtain; the curtain will be the divider for you between the Holy Place and the Especially Holy Place.

You are to put the ark-cover on the ark for the testimony in the Especially Holy Place.

"You are to put the table outside the curtain and the menorah opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; put the table on the north side.

"For the entrance to the tent, make a screen of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen; it should be in colors, the work of a weaver.

For the screen, make five posts of acacia-wood; overlay them with gold; and cast for them five sockets of bronze.