This chapter contains the miniscule details of the Tabernacle's layout with curtains, supporting frames and covering in exquisite luxurious taste. God cares about detail and stressed the importance of making everything exactly according to the plan shown to Moses on the mountain. From this chapter it is most clear that God loves a beautiful place of worship.
The tabernacle was to have 10 curtains made of blue, purple and scarlet linen with the imagery of cherubins interwoven, each measuring 12.5 metres x 1.8 metres. The curtains were fastened together using golden clasps in groups of 5 with 50 loops at the end of each group. It was also to have 11 curtains of goats' hair to cover the tabernacle with each measuring 13.5 metres x 1.8 metres and held together by bronze clasps. Additionally the Israelites were to make a further covering for the tabernacle with ram skins dyed red plus the hides of sea cows.
Then Moses was to build 48 wooden frames covered in gold to support the tent structure. Each frame measured 4.5 metres x 0.7 metres and they were set on silver bases. 20 frames were for the south side, 20 for the north side and 8 for the west end. Added to these frames were wooden horizontal cross-bars overlayed with gold.
A curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and linen, interwoven with cherubins, would divide the tabernacle in two parts separating the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. The ark of the testimony would be placed inside the inner Most Holy Place and the golden table and golden lampstand were to be placed in the outer Holy Place. Then at the entrance to the tabernacle would be placed a curtain of yarn and embroidered linen, with gold hooks, and with 5 wooden posts overlaid with gold, set in bronze bases.
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