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Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine and eighty four. Today,

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Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Book

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Speaker 1: of Exodus with chapter twenty six. Welcome to the Bible

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Speaker 1: Study Podcast. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Chapter twenty six

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Speaker 1: starts a three chapter DIY section of the Book of Exodus,

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Speaker 1: here with how to build things like the tabernacle. We'll

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Speaker 1: get into that in just a minute, but first a

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Speaker 1: word from this sponsor. Chapter twenty six The tabernacle. Make

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Speaker 1: the tabernacle with ten curtains of finally twisted linen and blue,

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Speaker 1: purple and scarlet yarn with cherubim woven into them by

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Speaker 1: a skilled worker. All the curtains are to be the

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Speaker 1: same size twenty eight cubits long and four cubits wide.

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Speaker 1: Join five of the curtains together and do the same

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Speaker 1: the edge of the end of the curtain in one set,

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Speaker 1: and do the same with the end of the curtain

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Speaker 1: in the other set. Make fifty loops on one curtain

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Speaker 1: and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set,

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Speaker 1: with the loops opposite each other. Then make fifty gold

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Speaker 1: clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together, so

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Speaker 1: that the tabernacle is a unit. Make curtains of goat

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Speaker 1: hair for the tent over the tabernacle eleven altogether. All

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Speaker 1: eleven curtains are to be the same size thirty cubits

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Speaker 1: long and four cubits wide. Join five of the curtains

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Speaker 1: Fold the six curtains double at the front of the tent.

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Speaker 1: over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.

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Speaker 1: The tent curtains will be a cubit longer on both sides.

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Speaker 1: What is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle,

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Speaker 1: so as to cover it. Make for the tent a

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Speaker 1: covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a

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Speaker 1: covering of the other durable leather. Make upright frames of

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Speaker 1: ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,

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Speaker 1: for the south side of the tabernacle. Make forty silver

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Speaker 1: two frames for the corners at the far end. Add

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Speaker 1: single ring. Both shall be like that, so there will

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Speaker 1: be eight frames and sixteen silver bases, two under each frame.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to put a picture on the Bible

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Speaker 1: Study podcast dot com that is a rendition of what

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Speaker 1: to find the Ark of the Covenant with its cherubim

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Speaker 1: things made of gold. And this tent here, the tentive meeting,

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Speaker 1: the tabernacle survives into the time of the Kings. The

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Speaker 1: the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar

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Speaker 1: with bronze. Make all its utensils of bronze. It's pot

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Speaker 1: and fire pans. Make a grating for it a bronze network,

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Speaker 1: shall be one hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

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Speaker 1: what is the access to God? That the access to

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Speaker 1: And with that we're going to end this rather dioy

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Speaker 1: episode of the Bible Study Podcast. If you have any questions,

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