< Exodus 38 >
1 And he made the altar of burnt-offering of shittim wood: five cubits was its length, and five cubits its breadth; it was foursquare, and three cubits was its height.
And Beseleel made the ark,
2 And he made its horns on its four corners, from itself were its horns; and he overlaid it with copper.
and overlaid it with pure gold within and without;
3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and the forks, and the fire-pans: all its vessels made he of copper.
and he cast for it four golden rings, two on the one side, and two on the other,
4 And he made for the altar a grating, a network of copper, under its compass beneath, even unto the half of it.
wide [enough] for the staves, so that men should bear the ark with them.
5 And he cast four rings on the four corners of the grating of copper, as receptacles for the staves.
And he made the propitiatory over the ark of pure gold,
6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with copper.
and the two cherubs of gold;
7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it by means of them; hollow, of boards, made he it.
one cherub on the one end of the propitiatory, and another cherub on the other end of the propitiatory,
8 And he made the laver of copper, and its foot of copper, of the mirrors of the assembled women who had assembled in troops at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings.
9 And he made the court: on the south side, on the right, the hangings of the court were of twisted linen, of one hundred cubits;
And he made the set table of pure gold,
10 Their pillars were twenty, with their twenty sockets of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
and cast for it four rings: two on the one side and two on the other side, broad, so that [men] should lift it with the staves in them.
11 And for the north side one hundred cubits; their pillars were twenty, with their twenty sockets of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
And he made the staves of the ark and of the table, and gilded them with gold.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars were ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
And he made the furniture of the table, both the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the bowls with which he should offer drink-offerings, of gold.
13 And for the front side, eastward, fifty cubits.
And he made the candlestick which gives light, of gold;
14 Hangings of fifteen cubits, were on the one wing: their pillars were three, and their sockets three.
the stem solid, and the branches from both its sides;
15 And for the other wing, on both sides of the gate of the court, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars were three, and their sockets three.
and blossoms proceeding from its branches, three on this side, and three on the other, made equal to each other.
16 all the hangings of the court round about were of twisted linen.
And [as to] their lamps, which are on the ends, knops [proceeded] from them; and sockets proceeding from them, that the lamps might be upon them; and the seventh socket, on the top of the candlestick, on the summit above, entirely of solid gold.
17 And the sockets for the pillars were of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops was of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
And on the candlestick seven golden lamps, and its snuffers gold, and its funnels gold.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and twisted linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height, in the breadth, was five cubits, answering to the hangings of the court.
He overlaid the posts [with silver], and cast for each post golden rings, and gilded the bars with gold; and he gilded the posts of the veil with gold, and made the hooks of gold.
19 And the pillars for the same were four, with their four sockets of copper; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their fillets, of silver.
He made also the rings of the tabernacle of gold; and the rings of the court, and the rings for drawing out the veil above of brass.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about were of copper.
He cast the silver chapiters of the tabernacle, and the brazen chapiters of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court; and he made silver hooks for the posts, he overlaid them with silver on the posts.
21 These are the accounts [of the articles furnished] for the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of the testimony, which were counted, according to the order of Moses, the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron, the priest.
He made the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court of brass.
22 And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Chur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord had commanded Moses.
He made the brazen altar of the brazen censers, which belonged to the men engaged in sedition with the gathering of Core.
23 And with him was Aholiab the son of Achissamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skilful weaver, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet yarn, and in linen thread.
He made all the vessels of the altar and its grate, and its base, and its bowls, and the brazen flesh hooks.
24 All the gold that was applied to the work in all the work of the sanctuary, to wit, the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
He made an appendage for the altar of network under the grate, beneath it as far as the middle of it; and he fastened to it four brazen rings on the four parts of the appendage of the altar, wide [enough] for the bars, so as to bear the altar with them.
25 And the silver of those that were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
He made the holy anointing oil and the composition of the incense, the pure work of the perfumer.
26 A bekah for every head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
He made the brazen laver, and the brazen base of it of the mirrors of the women that fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.
27 And the hundred talents of silver served to cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail: one hundred sockets to the hundred talents, a talent for every socket.
And he made the laver, that at it Moses and Aaron and his sons might wash their hands and their feet: when they went into the tabernacle of witness, or whenever they should advance to the altar to do service, they washed at it, as the Lord commanded Moses.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and filleted them.
29 And the copper of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
30 And he made therewith the sockets of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar of copper, and the grating of copper for it, and all the vessels of the altar;
31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the socket of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.