8.他們中間,凡心裏有智慧做工的,用十幅幔子做帳幕。這幔子是比撒列用撚的細麻和藍色、紫色、朱紅色線製造的,並用巧匠的手工繡上基路伯。
All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yam, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.
9.每幅幔子長二十八肘,寬四肘,都是一樣的尺寸。
All the curtains were the same size-twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.[a]
Footnotes:
a. Exodus 36:9 That is, about 42 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 13 meters long and 1.8 meters wide
10.他使這五幅幔子幅幅相連,又使那五幅幔子幅幅相連;
They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five.
11.在這相連的幔子末幅邊上做藍色的鈕扣,在那相連的幔子末幅邊上也照樣做;
Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set.
12.在這相連的幔子上做五十個鈕扣,在那相連的幔子上也做五十個鈕扣,都是兩兩相對;
They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
13.又做五十個金鈎,使幔子相連。這才成了一個帳幕。
Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the two sets of curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.
14.他用山羊毛織十一幅幔子,作為帳幕以上的罩棚。
They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle-eleven altogether.
15.每幅幔子長三十肘,寬四肘;十一幅幔子都是一樣的尺寸。
All eleven curtains were the same size-thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.[b]
Footnotes:
b. Exodus 36:15 That is, about 45 feet long and 6 feet wide or about 14 meters long and 1.8 meters wide
16.他把五幅幔子連成一幅,又把六幅幔子連成一幅;
They joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another set.
17.在這相連的幔子末幅邊上做五十個鈕扣,在那相連的幔子末幅邊上也做五十個鈕扣;
Then they made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
18.又做五十個銅鈎,使罩棚連成一個;
They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together as a unit.
19.並用染紅的公羊皮做罩棚的蓋,再用海狗皮做一層罩棚上的頂蓋。
Then they made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.[c]
Footnotes:
c. Exodus 36:19 Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals (see 35:7)