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Exodus

Chapter 37

Exodus · Moses

¹ And they made ten curtains for the tabernacle; ² of eight and twenty cubits the length of one curtain: the same [measure] was to all, and the breadth of one curtain was of four cubits. ³ And they made the veil of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, the woven work with cherubs. ⁴ And they put it on four posts of incorruptible [wood] overlaid with gold; and their chapiters were gold, and their four sockets were silver. ⁵ And they made the veil of the door of the tabernacle of witness of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, woven work with cherubs, ⁶ and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.

Ex 37:1-6

⁷ And they made the court toward the south; the curtains of the court of fine linen twined, a hundred [cubits] every way, ⁸ and their posts twenty, and their sockets twenty; ⁹ and on the north side a hundred every way, and on the south side a hundred every way, and their posts twenty and their sockets twenty. ¹⁰ And on the west side curtains of fifty cubits, their posts ten and their sockets ten. ¹¹ And on the east side curtains of fifty cubits of fifteen cubits behind, ¹² and their pillars three, and their sockets three. ¹³ And at the second back on this side and on that by the gate of the court, curtains of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three; ¹⁴ all the curtains of the tabernacle of fine linen twined. ¹⁵ And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver: ¹⁶ and the veil of the gate of the court, the work of an embroiderer of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined; the length of twenty cubits, and the height and the breadth of five cubits, made equal to the curtains of the court; ¹⁷ and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver. ¹⁸ And all the pins of the court round about of brass, and they [were] overlaid with silver. ¹⁹ And this was the construction of the tabernacle of witness, accordingly as it was appointed to Moses; so that the public service should belong to the Levites, through Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Ex 37:7-19

²⁰ And Bezalel the son of Uri of the tribe of Judah, did as the Lord commanded Moses. ²¹ And Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan [was there], who was chief artificer in the woven works and needleworks and embroideries, in weaving with the scarlet and fine linen.

Ex 37:20-21