Chapter 26
1 The top of the sacred tent must be made from ten pieces of the finest linen, woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures.
2 Make each piece twelve meters long and two meters wide
3 and sew them together into two panels with five sections each.
4 Sew five of the sections together to make one panel. Then sew the other six together to make a second panel, and fold the sixth section double over the front of the tent.
5 Put 50 loops along one of the wider sides of each panel
6 and fasten the two panels at the loops with 50 bronze hooks.
7 Make two more coverings—one with tanned ram skins and the other with fine leather. The Lord said:
8 Build a framework of acacia wood for the walls of the sacred tent.
9 Make each frame 4 meters high and 66 centimeters wide
10 with two wooden pegs near the bottom.
11 For the back wall along the west side use six frames
12 Altogether, this back wall will have eight frames with two silver stands under each one.
13 with the center crossbar running the full length of the wall.
14 Cover the frames and the crossbars with gold and attach gold rings to the frames to run the crossbars through.
15 Then set up the tent in the way I showed you on the mountain. The Lord said:
16 Inside the most holy place, put the sacred chest that has the place of mercy on its lid.
17 Outside the most holy place, as you face the curtain, put the table for the sacred bread on the right side and the gold lampstand on the left.
18 For the entrance to the tent, use a piece of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with fancy needlework.
19 Cover five acacia wood posts with gold and set them each on a bronze stand. Then put gold hooks on the posts and hang the curtain there.