5. from what you have, take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver and bronze;
6. blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
7. ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood;
8. olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
9. and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
10. ‘All who are skilled among you are to come and make everything the Lord has commanded:
11. the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases;
12. the ark with its poles and the atonement cover and the curtain that shields it;
13. the table with its poles and all its articles and the bread of the Presence;
14. the lampstand that is for light with its accessories, lamps and oil for the light;
15. the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
16. the altar of burnt offering with its bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils; the bronze basin with its stand;
17. the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard;
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.