Exodus 38
1 He made the altar for burnt offerings from acacia wood. It was five cubits long and five cubits wide, square, and three cubits high.
2 He made its horns at its four corners; the horns were part of the same piece as the altar, and he overlaid it with bronze.
3 He made all the altar’s utensils: the pots, shovels, basins, forks, and firepans. He made all its utensils from bronze.
4 He made a bronze grating for the altar, fashioned like a net, beneath its rim, extending downward halfway along it.
5 He cast four rings for the bronze grating, one at each of its four corners, as holders for the poles.
6 He made the poles from acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
7 He put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them. He made it hollow, out of boards.
8 He made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
9 He made the courtyard. On the south side, the courtyard hangings were of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits long,
10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks on the posts and their bands were silver.
11 On the north side, they were one hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks on the posts and their bands were silver.
12 On the west side were hangings fifty cubits long, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks on the posts and their bands were silver.
13 On the east side, toward the sunrise, the courtyard was fifty cubits wide:
14 hangings fifteen cubits long on one side, with three posts and three bases,
15 and on the other side of the courtyard entrance, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
16 All the hangings around the courtyard were of finely twisted linen.
17 The bases for the posts were bronze; the hooks on the posts and their bands were silver. The covering of their tops was silver, and all the courtyard posts had silver bands.
18 The screen for the courtyard entrance was embroidered with blue, purple, and crimson yarn and finely twisted linen. It was twenty cubits long, and its height was five cubits, matching the width of the courtyard hangings.
19 It had four posts and four bases of bronze; its hooks were silver, and the covering of its tops and its bands were silver.
20 All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and the courtyard all around were bronze.
21 These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, recorded at Moses’ command as the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
22 Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything the LORD had commanded Moses.
23 With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen.
24 All the gold used for the work, throughout all the work of the sanctuary—the gold from the wave offering—weighed twenty-nine talents and seven hundred thirty shekels, measured by the sanctuary shekel.
25 The silver from the community’s census totaled one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, measured by the sanctuary shekel.
26 A beka per person, half a shekel measured by the sanctuary shekel, for everyone counted in the census who was twenty years old or older: 603,550 men.
27 The one hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and the bases for the curtain: one hundred bases from the one hundred talents, one talent for each base.
28 With the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and fitted bands around them.
29 The bronze from the wave offering totaled seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.
30 With it he made the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the bronze altar with its bronze grating, and all the altar’s utensils,
31 the bases all around the courtyard, the bases for the courtyard entrance, all the tent pegs for the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs around the courtyard.
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