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and for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames.

You shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;

You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,

and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.

You shall hang the curtain under the clasps, and bring the ark of the covenant in there, within the curtain; and the curtain shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy.

You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework.

You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.

You shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.

You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze;

You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long for that side;

Likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

For the width of the court on the west side there shall be fifty cubits of hangings, with ten pillars and ten bases.

For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall have four pillars and with them four bases.

All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.

You shall further command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, so that a lamp may be set up to burn regularly.

You shall make sacred vestments for the glorious adornment of your brother Aaron.

And you shall speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed with skill, that they make Aaron's vestments to consecrate him for my priesthood.