Exodus 38–40

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 the twelve tribes.

¹⁵And they made on the breast piece braided chains, a work of pure gold ornamental cord. ¹⁶And they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece. ¹⁷And they put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece. ¹⁸And they put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and they put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. ¹⁹And they made two gold rings, and they placed them on the two edges of the breast piece, on its lip that is on the other side^e of the ephod, to the inside.^{f 20}And they made two gold rings and put them on the ephod’s two shoulder pieces below, at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod. ²¹And they tied the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord so that the breast piece would be on the waistband of the ephod and not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²²And he made the robe of the ephod, weaver’s work, totally of blue yarn. ²³And the opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a sturdy garment, with an edge for its opening all around so that it would not be torn. ²⁴And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of finely twisted blue and purple and crimson. ²⁵And they made pure gold bells and put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around in the midst of the pomegranates, ²⁶a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate on the hem of the robe all around for serving, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁷And they made the tunics of fine linen, a weaver’s work, for Aaron and for his sons, ²⁸and the turban of fine linen and the headdresses of the headbands of fine linen and undergarments of the linen cloth, finely twisted, ²⁹and the sash of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, the work of an embroiderer, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³⁰And they made the rosette^g of the holy diadem of pure gold, and they wrote on it with the writing of seal engravings: “A holy object for Yahweh.” ³¹And they put a blue cord on it to put it above on the turban, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Preparations Complete

³²And all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly was finished, and the Israelites^h had done according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses; so they did. ³³And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its equipment, its hooks, its frames,ⁱ its bars, and its pillars and its bases; ³⁴and the covering of the red-dyed ram skins and the covering of fine leather and the curtain of the screen; ³⁵the ark of the testimony and its poles and the atonement cover; ³⁶the table, all its equipment, and the bread of the presence; ³⁷the pure gold lampstand, its lamps—the lamps of the row—and all its equipment and the oil of the light; ³⁸the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance of the tent; ³⁹the bronze altar, and the bronze grating that is for it, its poles, and all its equipment, the basin and its stand, ⁴⁰the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars, and its bases; and the screen for the courtyard gate, its tent cords and its pegs;^j and all the equipment of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of assembly, ⁴¹the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary—the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests. ⁴²According to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so…