Sinai & The Law

For what they had already was not only sufficient for doing all the work, but too much!

All the skilled men among them who did the work made the tabernacle, using ten sheets of finely woven linen and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn. He made them with k'ruvim worked in that had been crafted by a skilled artisan.

Each sheet was forty-two feet long and six feet wide; all the sheets were the same size.

He joined five sheets one to another, and the other five sheets he joined one to another.

He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost sheet in the first set and did the same on the edge of the outermost sheet in the second set.

He made fifty loops on the one sheet, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the sheet in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.

He made fifty fasteners of gold and coupled the sheets to each other with the fasteners, so that the tabernacle formed a single unit.

He made sheets of goat's hair to be used as a tent covering the tabernacle; he made eleven sheets.

Each sheet was forty-five feet long and six feet wide; all eleven sheets were the same size.

He joined five sheets together and six sheets together.

He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost sheet in the first set and fifty loops on the outermost sheet in the second set.

He made fifty fasteners of bronze to join the tent together, so that it would be a single unit.

He made a covering for the tent of tanned ram skins and an outer covering of fine leather.

He made the upright planks of acacia-wood for the tabernacle.

Each plank was fifteen feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet wide.

There were two projections on each plank, and the planks were joined one to another. This is how he made all the planks for the tabernacle.

He made the planks for the tabernacle as follows: twenty planks for the south side, facing southward.

He made 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, he made 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, he made six planks.

For the corners of the tabernacle in the rear he made two planks,

double from the bottom all the way to the top but joined at a single ring. He did the same with both of them at the two corners.

Thus there were eight planks with their silver sockets, sixteen sockets, two sockets under each plank.

He made crossbars of acacia-wood, five for the planks of the one side of the tabernacle,