Exodus 26
American King James Version
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1Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of cunning work shall you make them.Select Exodus 26:1
2The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.Select Exodus 26:2
3The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.Select Exodus 26:3
4And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.Select Exodus 26:4
5Fifty loops shall you make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.Select Exodus 26:5
6And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains together with the clasps: and it shall be one tabernacle. ¶Select Exodus 26:6
7And you shall make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering on the tabernacle: eleven curtains shall you make.Select Exodus 26:7
8The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.Select Exodus 26:8
9And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.Select Exodus 26:9
10And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which couples the second.Select Exodus 26:10
11And you shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.Select Exodus 26:11
12And the remnant that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.Select Exodus 26:12
13And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.Select Exodus 26:13
14And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins. ¶Select Exodus 26:14
15And you shall make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.Select Exodus 26:15
16Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.Select Exodus 26:16
17Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tabernacle.Select Exodus 26:17
18And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.Select Exodus 26:18
19And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.Select Exodus 26:19
20And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:Select Exodus 26:20
21And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.Select Exodus 26:21
22And for the sides of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.Select Exodus 26:22
23And two boards shall you make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.Select Exodus 26:23
24And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.Select Exodus 26:24
25And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ¶Select Exodus 26:25
26And you shall make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,Select Exodus 26:26
27And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.Select Exodus 26:27
28And the middle bar in the middle of the boards shall reach from end to end.Select Exodus 26:28
29And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.Select Exodus 26:29
30And you shall raise up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed you in the mount. ¶Select Exodus 26:30
31And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubim shall it be made:Select Exodus 26:31
32And you shall hang it on four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, on the four sockets of silver. ¶Select Exodus 26:32
33And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, that you may bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall divide to you between the holy place and the most holy.Select Exodus 26:33
34And you shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.Select Exodus 26:34
35And you shall set the table without the veil, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.Select Exodus 26:35
36And you shall make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, worked with needlework.Select Exodus 26:36
37And you shall make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.Select Exodus 26:37
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