Quotes About Construction

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.

Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.

Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.

You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames

and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

Make six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side,

and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,

coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.

So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,