²⁰ He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.

⁵ rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

¹⁰ "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

¹⁵ "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.

¹⁶ Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.

¹⁷ There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent.

¹⁸ You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward.

¹⁹ You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

²⁰ For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards,

²¹ and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

²² For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards.

²³ Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in the far part.

²⁴ They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

²⁵ There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

²⁶ "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tent,

²⁷ and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the far part westward.

²⁸ The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.

²⁹ You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

¹⁸ Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised up its pillars.

¹⁹ He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹ Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

³ So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.