Exodus 38

Chapter 38

The Tabernacle Completed

^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 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.

^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.

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

¹⁰their twenty pillars, and their twenty ¹sockets, made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their ²bands were of silver.

¹¹For the north side there were one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty ¹sockets were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their ²bands were of silver.

¹²For the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten ¹sockets; the hooks of the pillars and their ²bands were of silver.

¹³For the ¹east side fifty cubits.

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

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 ⁴sockets.

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

¹⁷The ¹sockets for the pillars were of ²bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their ³bands, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops, 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 twenty cubits and the ³height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

¹⁹Their four pillars and their four ¹sockets were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their ²bands were of silver.

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

The Cost of the Tabernacle

²¹¹This is the number of the things for the ²tabernacle, the tabernacle 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 the Lord had commanded Moses.

²³With him was ^aOholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman 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 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to ^athe shekel of the sanctuary.

^25aThe silver of those of the congregation who were ¹numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 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.

²⁷The hundred talents of silver were for casting the ¹sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

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

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

³⁰With it he made the ¹sockets 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 ¹sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the ²tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.