Exodus 38–40

CHAPTER 38

Making the Altar of Burnt Offering

^1aThen he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, five ¹cubits ²long, and five cubits ³wide, square, and three cubits ⁴high.

²He made its horns on its four corners, its horns ¹being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with ²bronze.

³He made all the utensils of the altar, the pots and the shovels and the bowls, the flesh hooks and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

⁴He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway down.

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.

Making the Laver of Bronze

^8aMoreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, ¹from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Making the Court

^9aThen he made the court: ¹for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twisted linen, ²one hundred cubits;

¹⁰their twenty pillars, and their twenty bases, made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their ¹bands were of silver.

¹¹For the north side there were one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

¹²For the west side there were hangings of ¹fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

¹³For the east side toward the sunrise fifty cubits.

¹⁴The hangings for the one ¹side of the gate were ²fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases,

¹⁵and so for the ¹other ²side. ³On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.

¹⁶All the hangings of the court all around were of fine twisted linen.

¹⁷The bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver; and the overlaying of their tops were of silver, and all the pillars of the court were furnished with silver bands.

¹⁸The screen of the gate of the court was the work of the ¹weaver, of ²blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was ³twenty cubits and the ⁴height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

¹⁹Their four pillars and their four bases were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their bands were of silver.

²⁰All the pegs of the ¹tabernacle and of the court all around were of bronze.

The Things Numbered for the Tabernacle

²¹These are the things numbered for the ¹tabernacle, the ²tabernacle of the testimony, as they were ³numbered according to the ⁴command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

²²Now ^aBezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²³With him was ^aOholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman and a skillful designer and a ¹weaver in ²blue 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 ¹29 talents and ²730 shekels, according to ^athe shekel of the sanctuary.

^25aThe silver of those of the congregation who were ¹numbered was ²100 talents and ³1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

^26aa 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 ¹numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for ^b603,550 men.

²⁷One hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; one hundred bases for one hundred talents, a talent for a base.

²⁸Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made bands for them.

²⁹The bronze of the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.

³⁰With it he made the bases 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 bases of the court all around and the bases of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the ¹tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.

CHAPTER 39

Making the Holy Garments

¹Moreover, from the ^1ablue and purple and scarlet material, they made finely ^bwoven garments for ministering in the holy place ²as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^2aHe made the ephod of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

³Then they hammered out gold sheets and cut them into threads ¹to be woven in with the blue and the purple and the scarlet material and the fine linen, the work of a skillful designer.

⁴They made joining shoulder pieces for ¹the ephod; it was joined at its two upper ends.

⁵The skillfully woven band which was on it was like its workmanship, ¹of the same material: of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^6aThey made the onyx stones, set all around in filigree settings of gold; they were engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.

⁷And ^ahe placed them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^8aHe made the breastpiece, the work of a skillful designer, like the workmanship of the ephod: of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen.

⁹It was square; they made the breastpiece, having been folded double, a ¹span ²long and a span ³wide when folded double.

¹⁰And they ¹mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

¹¹and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

¹²and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

¹³and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set in their filigree settings with gold filigree.

¹⁴The stones were corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve, corresponding to their names, engraved with the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.

¹⁵They made on the breastpiece chains of a twisted work of cords in pure gold.

¹⁶They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.

¹⁷Then they put the two gold cords in the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

¹⁸They put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

¹⁹They made two gold rings and placed them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge which was next to the ephod.

²⁰Furthermore, they made two gold rings and placed them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it, close to the place where it joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

²¹They bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it would be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^22aThen he made the robe of the ephod of woven work entirely of blue;

^23aand the opening of the robe was at the top in the center, as the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding all around its opening, so that it would not be torn.

²⁴They made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material and twisted linen on the hem of the robe.

²⁵They also made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the hem of the ¹robe,

²⁶¹alternating a bell and a pomegranate all around on the hem of the robe for the ministry, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^27aThey made the tunics of finely woven linen for Aaron and his sons,

²⁸and the turban of fine linen, and the headdresses of the ¹caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twisted linen,

²⁹and the sash of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of the ¹weaver, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

^30aThey made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and ¹wrote upon it with engraved writing as found on a signet, “Holy to Yahweh.”

³¹They ¹fastened a blue cord to it, to ²fasten it on the turban above, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³²Thus all the service of constructing the ¹tabernacle of the tent of meeting was ^acompleted; and the sons of Israel did according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses; so they did.

³³They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its ¹furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars and its bases;

³⁴and the covering of rams’ skins ¹dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the screening veil;

³⁵the ark of the testimony and its poles and the ¹mercy seat;

³⁶the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the ¹Presence;

³⁷the pure gold lampstand, ¹with its arrangement of lamps and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

³⁸and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent;

³⁹the ¹bronze altar and its ²bronze grating, its poles and all its utensils, the laver and its stand;

⁴⁰the hangings for the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pegs, and all the ¹equipment for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

⁴¹the woven garments for ministering in the holy place and the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, to minister as priests.

⁴²Thus, according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did in all their service.

⁴³And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; just as Yahweh had commanded, so they had done. Then Moses ^a…