Exodus 38 ~ Exodus 38

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1 T hen he made the altar for burnt gifts of acacia wood. It was as long and as wide as three steps, and as tall as a man’s chest.

¶ And he made the altar of burnt offering of cedar wood: five cubits was its length and five cubits its breadth; it was square, and its height was three cubits.

2 H e made horns on its four corners of one piece with it and covered it with brass.

And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same piece; and he covered it with brass.

3 H e made all the objects of the altar, its pails, its tools for picking up the ashes, its pots, meat-hooks and fire-holders of brass.

He made likewise all the vessels of the altar: the pots and the shovels and the basins and the fleshhooks, and the firepans; all its vessels he made of brass.

4 H e made a net for it of brass. It was put under the altar and it came up half-way.

And he made for the altar the brasen grate of network under the circumference thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

5 H e put four rings of brass at the four corners of the net to hold the long pieces of wood.

He also cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

6 H e made the long pieces of wood out of acacia wood and covered them with brass.

And he made the staves of cedar wood and covered them with brass.

7 H e put the long pieces of wood through the rings on each side of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with pieces of wood so it was empty inside. Making the Pot of Brass for Washing

And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with; he made the altar hollow with boards.

8 H e made the pot for washing and its base of brass. They were made from the mirrors of the women servants who worked at the door of the meeting tent.

He also made the laver of brass and the base of it of brass, of the looking glasses of the women who were vigilant at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

9 T hen he made the open space for the holy tent. On the south side were curtains for the open space. They were made of fine linen, as long as fifty long steps.

¶ He made the court likewise; on the south side towards the Negev the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;

10 T hey hung from twenty pillars with twenty brass bases. The hooks of the pillar and their rings were made of silver.

their pillars were twenty with their twenty brasen sockets; the capitals of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

11 A nd on the north side there were curtains as long as fifty long steps, and twenty pillars with twenty brass bases. The hooks of the pillars and their rings were made of silver.

And for the side of the Aquilon, the hangings were one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty with their twenty sockets of brass, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

12 O n the west side there were curtains as long as twenty-five long steps. They had ten pillars with ten bases. The hooks of the pillars and their rings were made of silver.

On the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets of silver,

13 T he east side was as wide as twenty-five long steps.

and for the east side eastward fifty cubits

14 T he curtains for one side of the gate were as long as seven steps. They had three pillars with three bases.

the hangings of the one side fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three;

15 A nd on the other side there were curtains as long as seven steps, with three pillars and three bases.

and for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three.

16 A ll the curtains around the open space were made of fine linen.

All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

17 T he bases for the pillars were made of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their rings were made of silver. Their tops were covered with silver. And the pillars were joined with silver.

And the sockets for the pillars were of brass, the capitals of the pillars and their fillets of silver and the coverings of their heads of silver; likewise all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

18 T he curtain for the gate of the open space was the work of an able workman. It was made of blue, purple and red cloth and fine linen. It was as long as ten long steps, and as high as a man raises his hand, to go with the curtains around the open space.

And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, the same as the hangings of the court.

19 I ts four pillars and their bases were made of brass. Their hooks and rings were made of silver. And their tops were covered with silver.

And its pillars were four with its four sockets of brass, their capitals of silver, and the coverings of their heads and their fillets of silver.

20 A ll the nails of the meeting tent and the open space were made of brass. The Parts Are Weighed

And all the stakes of the tabernacle and of the court round about were of brass.

21 T his is the number of the things for the meeting tent, the meeting tent of the Law, as they were given by the mouth of Moses, for the work of the Levites, under the leading of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the religious leader.

¶ This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the ministry of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

22 B ezalel, the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the family of Judah, made all that the Lord had told Moses.

And Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.

23 W ith him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the family of Dan. He was an able workman who cut words in stone, gold or silver, and in sewing blue, purple and red cloth and fine linen.

And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a master workman, an engineer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and fine linen.

24 A ll the gold used for the work of the holy tent, the gold given as a gift in worship, weighed as much as twelve men.

All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, which was gold of offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

25 T he silver given by the people weighed as much as forty men.

And the silver of those that were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

26 E ach one of the men who were twenty years old and older, added up to 603, 550 men, gave only a small weight of silver.

A half per head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, which were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

27 O ne hundred heavy weights of silver were used for making the bases for the holy tent and for the curtain in front of the most holy place. One hundred bases were made from the heavy weights of silver.

And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

28 A nd from the heavy weights of silver he made hooks and joining parts for the pillars, and also covered their tops.

And of the thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made the capitals for the pillars and covered their heads and filleted them.

29 T he brass that was given weighed as much as thirty men.

And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels,

30 W ith it he made the base for the door of the meeting tent, the brass altar and its brass net, and all the objects of the altar.

with which he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and the brasen altar and the brasen grate for it and all the vessels of the altar

31 H e also made bases all around the open space and the base for the gate of the open space, and all the nails of the meeting tent and all around the open space.

and the sockets of the court round about and the sockets of the court gate and all the stakes of the tabernacle, and all the stakes of the court round about.