Exodus 38
The Tabernacle Completed
1 aThen he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, five ▼▼ I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
cubits ▼▼ Lit its length
long, and five cubits ▼▼ Lit its width
wide, square, and three cubits ▼▼ Lit its height
high. 2He made its horns on its four corners, its horns ▼▼ Lit were
being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with ▼▼ Or copper, and so for bronze throughout the ch
bronze. 3He made all the utensils of the altar, the pails and the shovels and the basins, the flesh hooks and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze. 4He made for the altar a grating of bronze network beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up. 5He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. 6He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 7He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks. 8 hMoreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, ▼▼ Lit with
from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 9 jThen he made the court: ▼▼ Lit to the side of the Negev, to the south
for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits; 10their twenty pillars, and their twenty ▼▼ Or bases
sockets, made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their ▼▼ Or fillets, rings
bands were of silver. 11For the north side there were one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty ▼▼ Or bases
sockets were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their ▼▼ Or fillets, rings
bands were of silver. 12For the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten ▼▼ Or bases
sockets; the hooks of the pillars and their ▼▼ Or fillets, rings
bands were of silver. 13For the ▼▼ Lit east side, eastward
east side fifty cubits. 14The hangings for the one ▼▼ Lit shoulder
side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three ▼▼ Or bases
sockets, 15and so for the ▼▼ Lit second
other ▼▼ Lit shoulder
side. ▼▼ Lit On this side and on that side
On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three ▼▼ Or bases
sockets. 16All the hangings of the court all around were of fine twisted linen. 17The ▼▼ Or bases
sockets for the pillars were of ▼▼ Or copper
bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their ▼▼ Or fillets, rings
bands, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops, of silver, and all the pillars of the court were furnished with silver ▼▼ Or fillets, rings
bands. 18The screen of the gate of the court was the work of the ▼▼ Lit variegator; i.e. a weaver in colors
weaver, of ▼▼ Or violet
blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was twenty cubits and the ▼▼ Lit height in width
height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court. 19Their four pillars and their four ▼▼ Or bases
sockets were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their ▼▼ Or fillets, rings
bands were of silver. 20All the pegs of the ▼▼ Lit dwelling place
tabernacle and of the court all around were of bronze. The Cost of the Tabernacle
21 ▼▼ Lit These are the appointed things of the tabernacle
This is the number of the things for the ▼▼ Lit dwelling place
tabernacle, the ▼▼ Lit dwelling place
tabernacle of the testimony, as they were ▼▼ Lit appointed
numbered according to the ▼▼ Lit mouth
command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 22Now anBezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord had commanded Moses. 23With him was aoOholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and a ▼▼ Lit variegator; i.e. a weaver in colors
weaver in ▼▼ Or violet
blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and fine linen. 24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to arthe shekel of the sanctuary. 25 asThe silver of those of the congregation who were ▼▼ Lit mustered
numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; 26 aua beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were ▼▼ Lit mustered
numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for aw => 603,550 men. 27The hundred talents of silver were for casting the ▼▼ Or bases
sockets of the sanctuary and the ▼▼ Or bases
sockets of the veil; one hundred ▼▼ Or bases
sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a ▼▼ Or bases
socket. 28Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made ▼▼ Or fillets, rings
bands for them. 29The bronze of the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels. 30With it he made the ▼▼ Or bases
sockets to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar, 31and the ▼▼ Or bases
sockets of the court all around and the ▼▼ Or bases
sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the ▼▼ Lit dwelling place
tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.
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