Exodus 37–39

Making the Ark of the Covenant

37And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. ²And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and he made for it a gold molding all around. ³And he cast for it four gold rings on its four feet; and two rings were on its one side, and two rings were on its second side. ⁴And he made poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. ⁵And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

⁶And he made an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. ⁷And he made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. ⁸One cherub was at one end,^a and one cherub was at the other end^b of the atonement cover; he made the cherubim at its two ends. ⁹And the cherubim were with outspread wings above, covering with their wings over the atonement cover and facing each other;^c the faces of the cherubim were toward the atonement cover.

Making the Table and the Lampstand

¹⁰And he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. ¹¹And he overlaid it with pure gold, and he made for it a gold molding all around. ¹²And he made for it a handbreadth rim all around, and he made a gold molding for its rim all around. ¹³And he cast for it four gold rings, and he put the rings on the four corners where its four legs^d were. ¹⁴The rings were near the rim as holders^e for the poles to carry the table. ¹⁵And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold to carry the table. ¹⁶And he made the vessels that were on the table—its plates and its ladles,^f and its bowls and its pitchers with which libations were poured—of pure gold.

¹⁷And he made the lampstand of pure gold; he made the lampstand of hammered work—its base and its branch, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were all part of it.^{g 18}And six branches were going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. ¹⁹Three almond-flower cups were on the one branch with a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups were on the one branch with a bud and a blossom—likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand. ²⁰And on the lampstand were four almond-flower cups, with its^h buds and its blossoms. ²¹And a bud was under the two branches that came from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, likewise for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. ²²Their buds and their branches were from it, all of it one piece of pure gold, hammered work. ²³And he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its fire pans of pure gold. ²⁴He made it from a talent of pure gold and all its pieces of equipment.

Making the Incense Altar and Anointing Oil

²⁵And he made the incense altar of acacia wood, a cubit its length and a cubit its width—a square—and two cubits its height; its horns were of one piece with it.^{i 26}And he overlaid it with pure gold—its top and its sides all around and its horns—and he made for it a gold molding all around. ²⁷And he made for it two gold rings under its molding on two opposite sides^j as holders^k for poles to carry it with them. ²⁸And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. ²⁹And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense—work of a perfumer.

Making the Bronze Altar and the Basin

38And 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;^a 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^b 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^c 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^d 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^e 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,^f with their three pillars and their three bases, ¹⁵and for the second shoulder^g on each side^h 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,ⁱ 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^j 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^k 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,^l from twenty years old^m 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 pegsⁿ of the tabernacle and all the pegs^o of the courtyard all around.

Making Garments for Priests

39And from the blue and the purple and the crimson yarns they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary, and they made the holy garments that were for Aaron, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ²And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. ³And he hammered out the leaves of gold, and he cut off cords to weave in the midst of the blue and in the midst of the purple and in the midst of the crimson and in the midst of the linen—the work of a skilled craftsman. ⁴They made joined shoulder pieces for it; it was joined on its two edges. ⁵And the waistband of his ephod, which was of one piece with it,^a was of like work, gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ⁶And they made onyx stones mounted in gold filigree settings, engraved with seal engravings according to the names of the Israelites.^{b 7}And he set them on the ephod’s shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the Israelites,^c as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

⁸And he made the breast piece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. ⁹It was squared; they made the breast piece doubled; its length was a span, and its width was a span when doubled. ¹⁰And they filled it with four rows of stone; a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald was the first row; ¹¹and the second row was a malachite, a sapphire, and a moonstone; ¹²and the third row was a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³and the fourth row was a turquoise, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set with gold filigree settings in their mountings. ¹⁴And the stones were according to the names of the Israelites;^d they were twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name for …