Exodus 38:9–31

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.