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and spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work that Jehovah commanded to be done.

Then Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed through the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary! So the people were restrained from bringing;

for the work they had was sufficient for all the work to do it, and it was too much.

The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits—one measure for all the curtains.

And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains did he make them.

The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain—one measure for the eleven curtains.

And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above [that].

And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;

two tenons in one board, connected one with the other: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;

and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board, for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.

And for the other side of the tabernacle, on the side toward the north, he made twenty boards,

and he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear;

—And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

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

And he overlaid the boards with gold; and made their rings of gold [as] receptacles for the bars; and overlaid the bars with gold.

And he made four pillars of acacia[-wood] for it, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver.

And he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus, of embroidery;

And he cast for it four rings of gold, for its four corners: two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

And he made for it a margin of a hand-breadth round about; and made a border of gold for the margin thereof round about.