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Exodus 38
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1And Beseleel made the ark,
1He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
2and overlaid it with pure gold within and without;
2He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
3and he cast for it four golden rings, two on the one side, and two on the other,
3He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze.
4wide [enough] for the staves, so that men should bear the ark with them.
4He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
5And he made the propitiatory over the ark of pure gold,
5He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles.
6and the two cherubs of gold;
6He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze.
7one cherub on the one end of the propitiatory, and another cherub on the other end of the propitiatory,
7He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
8overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings.
8He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
9And he made the set table of pure gold,
9He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
10and 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.
10their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11And he made the staves of the ark and of the table, and gilded them with gold.
11For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
12And 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.
12For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
13And he made the candlestick which gives light, of gold;
13For the east side eastward fifty cubits,
14the stem solid, and the branches from both its sides;
14the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
15and blossoms proceeding from its branches, three on this side, and three on the other, made equal to each other.
15and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16And [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.
16All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
17And on the candlestick seven golden lamps, and its snuffers gold, and its funnels gold.
17The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands.
18He 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.
18The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.
19He 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.
19Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
20He cast the silver capitals of the tabernacle, and the brazen capitals 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.
20All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of bronze.
21He made the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court of brass.
21These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
22He made the brazen altar of the brazen censers, which belonged to the men engaged in sedition with the gathering of Core.
22Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
23He made all the vessels of the altar and its grate, and its base, and its bowls, and the brazen flesh hooks.
23With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.
24He 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.
24All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
25He made the holy anointing oil and the composition of the incense, the pure work of the perfumer.
25The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
26He 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.
26a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
27And 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.
27The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket.