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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Exodus 38
38
The Altar for Offering Sacrifices
(Exodus 27.1-8)
1Bezalel built an altar of acacia wood for offering sacrifices. It was 2.25 meters square and 1.34 meters high 2with each of its four corners sticking up like the horn of a bull, and it was completely covered with bronze. 3The equipment for the altar was also made of bronze—the pans for the hot ashes, the shovels, the bowls, the meat forks, and the fire pans. 4About halfway up the altar he built a ledge around it and covered the bottom half of the altar with a decorative bronze grating. 5Then he attached a bronze ring beneath the ledge at the four corners to put the poles through. 6He covered two acacia wood poles with bronze and 7put them through the rings for carrying the altar, which was shaped like an open box.
The Large Bronze Bowl
(Exodus 30.18-21)
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Ex 30.18. Bezalel made a large bowl and a stand out of bronze from the mirrors of the women who helped at the entrance to the sacred tent.
The Courtyard around the Sacred Tent
(Exodus 27.9-19)
9-17Around the sacred tent Bezalel built a courtyard 44 meters long on the south and north and 22 meters wide on the east and west. He used 20 bronze posts on bronze stands for the south and north and 10 for the west. Then he hung a curtain of fine linen on the posts along each of these three sides by using silver hooks and rods. He placed three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hung a curtain 6.67 meters wide on each set of posts.
18-19For the entrance to the courtyard, Bezalel made a curtain nine meters long, which he hung on four bronze posts that were set on bronze stands. This curtain was 2.25 meters high, the same height as the one for the rest of the courtyard, and was made of fine linen embroidered and woven with blue, purple, and red wool. He hung the curtain on the four posts, using silver hooks and rods. 20The pegs for the tent and for the curtain around the tent were made of bronze.
The Sacred Tent
21-23Bezalel had worked closely with Oholiab,#38.21-23 Bezalel … Oholiab: Hebrew “Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur of the Judah tribe had worked closely with Oholiab son of Ahisamach from the tribe of Dan.” who was an expert at designing and engraving, and at embroidering blue, purple, and red wool. The two of them completed the work that the Lord had commanded to be done.
Moses put Aaron's son Ithamar in charge of the Levites who kept record of the metals used for the sacred tent. 24According to the official weights, the amount of gold given was a ton, 25#Ex 30.11-16. and the silver that was collected when the people were counted#38.25 counted: See 30.11-16; Numbers 1. came to 3.4 tons. 26#Mt 17.24. Everyone who was counted paid the required amount, and there was a total of 603,550 men who were 20 years old or older.
27Thirty-four kilograms of the silver were used to make each of the 100 stands for the sacred tent and the curtain. 28The remaining 30 kilograms of silver were used for the hooks and rods and for covering the tops of the posts.
29Two thousand four hundred and twenty-five kilograms of bronze were given. 30And it was used to make the stands for the entrance to the tent, the altar and its grating, the equipment for the altar, 31the stands for the posts that surrounded the courtyard, including those at the entrance to the courtyard, and the pegs for the tent and the courtyard.
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