Exodus 38
38
The Altar
1Then he built the altar for burning offerings. He made the altar of acacia wood. The altar was square. It was 7½ feet long, 7½ feet wide and 4½ feet high. 2He made each corner stick out like a horn. The horns and the altar were joined together in one piece. Then he covered the altar with bronze. 3He made all the tools of bronze to use on the altar: the pots, shovels, bowls for sprinkling blood, meat forks and pans for carrying the fire. 4He made a large bronze screen to hold the burning wood for the altar. He put the screen inside the altar, under its rim, halfway up from the bottom. 5He made bronze rings for holding the poles for carrying the altar. He put the rings at the four corners of the screen. 6Then he made poles of acacia wood and covered them with bronze. 7He put the poles through the rings on both sides of the altar. They were used for carrying the altar. He made the altar of boards and left the inside hollow.
The Bronze Bowl
8He made the bronze bowl for washing. He built it on a bronze stand. He used the bronze of mirrors. These mirrors belonged to the women who served at the entrance to the Meeting Tent.
The Courtyard of the Holy Tent
9Then he made a wall of curtains to form a courtyard around the Holy Tent. On the south side the curtains were 150 feet long and were made of fine linen. 10The curtains hung on silver hooks and bands. These were on 20 bronze posts on 20 bronze bases. 11On the north side the wall of curtains was also 150 feet long. It hung on silver hooks and bands on 20 posts with 20 bronze bases.
12On the west side of the courtyard, the wall of curtains was 75 feet long. It was held up by silver hooks and bands on 10 posts and 10 bases. 13The east side was 75 feet wide. 14On one side of the entry there was a wall of curtains that was 22½ feet long. It was held up by 3 posts and 3 bases. 15On the other side of the entry there was a wall of curtains 22½ feet long. It was held up by 3 posts and 3 bases. 16All the curtains around the courtyard were made of fine linen. 17The bases for the posts were made of bronze. The hooks and the bands on the posts were made of silver. The tops of the posts were covered with silver also. All the posts in the courtyard had silver bands.
18The curtain for the entry of the courtyard was made of blue, purple and red thread, and fine linen. It was sewn by a person who could sew well. The curtain was 30 feet long and 7½ feet high. It was the same height as the curtains around the courtyard. 19The curtain was held up by 4 posts and 4 bronze bases. The hooks and bands on the posts were made of silver. The tops on the posts were covered with silver. 20All the tent pegs for the Holy Tent and for the curtains around the courtyard were made of bronze.
21This is a list of the metals used to make the Holy Tent. This is where the two flat stones with the Ten Commandments are kept. Moses ordered the Levites to make this list. Ithamar son of Aaron was in charge of keeping the list. 22Bezalel son of Uri made everything the Lord commanded Moses. Uri was the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah. 23Oholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan helped him. Oholiab could cut designs into metal and stone. He was a designer. He was also skilled at sewing the blue, purple and red thread, and fine linen.
24The total amount of gold used to build the Holy Tent was presented to the Lord. It weighed over 2,000 pounds, as set by the Holy Place measure.
25The silver was given by the members of the community who were counted. It weighed 7,550 pounds, as set by the Holy Place measure. 26All the men 20 years old or older were counted. There were 603,550 men, and each man had to pay 1/5 ounce of silver. This is the weight as set by the Holy Place measure. 27Of this silver, 7,500 pounds was used to make the 100 bases. These bases were for the Holy Tent and for the curtain. There was 75 pounds of silver in each base. 28The other 50 pounds of silver was used to make the hooks for the posts. It was also used to cover the tops of the posts and to make the bands on the posts.
29The bronze which was presented to the Lord weighed about 5,000 pounds. 30They used the bronze to make the bases at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. They also used the bronze to make the altar and the bronze screen. And this bronze was used to make all the tools for the altar. 31This bronze was also used to make bases for the wall of curtains around the courtyard. It was used for the bases for the curtains at the entry to the courtyard. And this bronze was used to make the tent pegs for the Holy Tent and curtains that surrounded the courtyard.
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Exodus 38
38
Making the Bronze Altar and the Basin
1And he made the burnt-offering altar of acacia wood; its length was five cubits, and its width was five cubits—it was square—and its height was three cubits. 2And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it;#Literally “from it” and he overlaid it with bronze. 3And he made all the equipment of the altar—the pots and the shovels and the sprinkling bowls and the forks#1 Samuel 2:13 mentions a fork with “three teeth” used by priests and the fire pans—all its equipment he made with bronze. 4And he made for the altar a grating, a work of bronze network under its ledge, below, up to its middle. 5And he cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders#Literally “houses” for the poles. 6And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with bronze. 7And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow with boards.
8And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of assembly.
Making the Courtyard
9And he made the courtyard; for the south#Or “southward southward” side were the hangings of the court of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits, 10with their twenty pillars and their twenty bases of bronze and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. 11And for the north side the hangings were one hundred cubits with their twenty pillars and their twenty bases of bronze and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. 12And for the west#Literally “sea” side fifty cubits of hangings with their ten pillars and their ten bases and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. 13And for the eastward side, toward sunrise, fifty cubits; 14fifteen cubits of hangings were to the shoulder,#Or “side,” referring to the span on one side of the courtyard’s entry with their three pillars and their three bases, 15and for the second shoulder#Or “side,” referring to the span on one side of the courtyard’s entry on each side#Literally “from this and from this” of the gate of the courtyard were fifteen cubits of hangings, with their three pillars and their three bases. 16All the hangings of the courtyard all around were finely twisted linen, 17and the bases for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver, and the overlay of their tops was silver, and all the pillars of the courtyard were banded with silver.
18And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, with blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high,#Literally “height in width” like the hangings of the courtyard, 19and with their four pillars and their four bases of bronze, with their silver hooks and with their tops and their bands of silver. 20And all the pegs#Literally “hands” for the tabernacle and for the courtyard all around were bronze.
Amounts of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Used
21These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which were recorded at the command of#Literally “mouth of” Moses, the work of the Levites, in the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 22And Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, did all that Yahweh commanded Moses. 23And with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, a skilled craftsman and a designer and an embroiderer with the blue and with the purple and with the crimson yarns and with the linen.
24And all the gold used for the work, in the work of the sanctuary, it was the gold of the wave offering—twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
25And the silver recorded from the community was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. 26It was a bekah for the individual, the half shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who was counted,#Literally “all of the going over to the being counted” from twenty years old#Literally “a son of twenty years” and above, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. 27And it was one hundred talents of the silver to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the curtain—one hundred bases for one hundred talents of silver, a talent for each base. 28And from the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and he overlaid their tops, and he made bands for them.
29And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels. 30And he made with it the bases of the entrance of the tent of assembly and the bronze altar and the bronze grating that belonged to it and all the equipment of the altar 31and the bases of the courtyard all around and the bases of the gate of the courtyard and all the pegs#Literally “hands” of the tabernacle and all the pegs#Literally “hands” of the courtyard all around.
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