Exodus 26

Blueprints for God’s dwelling place

INNER TENT

“Make 10 curtains using fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet material for the dwelling place. Have a creative professional sew angels on them. Each curtain needs to be 42 feet long and 6 feet wide. (Each curtain should have the same measurements.) 5 curtains should be joined to each other as one set, and the other 5 should be joined together as another set. For both sets of curtains, the outermost curtain needs to have 50 blue loops on its edge. Also make 50 gold hooks to join the curtains together so that the dwelling place will be unit.

OUTER TENT

“Also make 11 curtains out of goat’s hair forming a tent to go over the dwelling place. Each of those curtains needs to be 45 feet long and 6 feet wide. (Each curtain should have the same measurements.) Then join 5 of them together as one set and the other 6 together as a second set, but double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. Make 50 loops on the outermost curtain in the first set, and 50 on the outermost curtain in the second set.

“Make 50 bronze hooks to join the two sets of loops together so that the tent will be a unit. The left-over overlapping half curtain should hang over the back of the dwelling place. 1.5 feet should be left to hang over the right side, and 1.5 feet on the left side. These flaps should hang over each side of the dwelling place to cover it. Also make a covering for the tent out of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering out of animal skins above it.

WALLS

“Make the dwelling place’s boards out of acacia wood, standing upright. Each board should be 15 feet long and 2.25 feet wide. Each board should have 2 fitted sockets to connect it to the board next to it. Do that for all of the dwelling place’s boards. Make 20 boards for the south side with 40 silver bases under the boards (each board should have 2 bases). Do the same thing for the north side. The west side (which is the rear) will need 6 boards. Make 2 boards for the corners of the dwelling place that are connected from the bottom all the way up to the top where the first ring is. Both corners should be like that. There should be 8 boards with 16 silver bases (2 bases under each board). 

BARS

“Also make bars out of acacia wood. Make 5 bars for the right side, 5 for the left side, and 5 for the rear (the west). The middle bar in the center of the boards should extend from one end to the other. Overlay the boards and bars with gold and put gold rings on the boards to hold the bars. Then you can erect the dwelling place following the blueprints I showed you on the mountain.

VEIL

“Make a veil using fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet material. It should have an angel sewn on it by a professional. Hang it on 4 columns that are made out of acacia wood and overlaid with gold. Make their hooks out of gold and place them on bases made of silver. Hang the veil from the hooks and put the evidence chest behind the veil. The veil will distinguish between the sacred area and the most-sacred-of-sacred areas. Put the golden slab on the evidence chest in the sacredest of sacred areas. Put the table outside of the veil (on the north side) and the lampstand opposite of the table (on the south side).

SCREEN

“Have a professional weaver make a screen for the tent’s doorway out of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet material. Make 5 pillars out of acacia wood overlaid with gold to hold the screen. Make gold hooks for them and cast 5 bases for them out of bronze.