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"You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

"And you shall make an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

"You shall also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

"You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.

"And you shall make for it a rim of a hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

"Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base and its shaft, are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

"Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, a bulb and a flower—the same for six branches going out from the lampstand;

"A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

"It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.

"Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and violet, purple, and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer.

"You shall also make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

"Then you shall make curtains of goats' hair as a tent over the tabernacle; you shall make eleven curtains in all.

"You shall also make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it will be a unit.

"And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of fine leather above.

"Ten cubits shall be the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

"You shall also make a veil of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer.

"You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve as a partition for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

"You shall also make a curtain for the doorway of the tent of violet, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver.

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

"Now you shall make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side there shall be hangings for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;