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So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person will do the work the Lord has commanded, because he gave them the wisdom and understanding to do all the skilled work needed to build the Holy Tent."
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Then Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other skilled people to whom the Lord had given skills, and they came because they wanted to help with the work.
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They received from Moses everything the people of Israel had brought as gifts to build the Holy Tent. The people continued to bring gifts each morning because they wanted to.
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So all the skilled workers left the work they were doing on the Holy Tent,
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and they said to Moses, "The people are bringing more than we need to do the work the Lord commanded."
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Then Moses sent this command throughout the camp: "No man or woman should make anything else as a gift for the Holy Tent." So the people were kept from giving more,
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because what they had was already more than enough to do all the work.
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Then the skilled workers made the Holy Tent. They made the ten curtains of blue, purple, and red cloth, and they sewed designs of creatures with wings on the curtains.
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Each curtain was the same size -- forty-two feet long and six feet wide.
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Five of the curtains were fastened together to make one set, and the other five were fastened together to make another set.
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Then they made loops of blue cloth along the edge of the end curtain on the first set of five, and they did the same thing with the other set of five.
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There were fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the other curtain, with the loops opposite each other.