Exodus 38

¹ He made the altar of holocaust out of acacia wood, a square five cubits long and five cubits wide, its height three cubits.

² At its four corners he put horns, the horns being of one piece with it, and plated it with bronze.

³ He made all the altar vessels: pans for the ashes, shovels, sprinkling basins, hooks, fire pans; he made all the vessels for the altar out of bronze.

⁴ He made a grating for it of bronze network which he set under the ledge, below, so that it reached half-way up the altar.

⁵ He cast four rings and fixed them on the four corners of the bronze grating to take the shafts.

⁶ He made the shafts of acacia wood and plated them with bronze.

⁷ He placed these through the rings fixed to the sides of the altar for carrying it, and he made the altar hollow, of boards.

⁸ He made the bronze basin and its bronze support from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

⁹ He made the court. For the southern side of the court, facing the south country, there were one hundred cubits of hangings of fine twined linen.

¹⁰ Their twenty posts with their twenty sockets were of bronze, their hooks and rods of silver.

¹¹ For the northern side there were one hundred cubits of hangings; their twenty posts with their twenty sockets were of bronze, their hooks and rods of silver.

¹² For the western side, fifty cubits of hangings, carried on ten posts set in ten sockets, with their hooks and rods of silver.

¹³ Fifty cubits, too, for the eastern side facing the sunrise.

¹⁴ On one side of the gateway there were fifteen cubits of hangings, carried on three posts set in three sockets.

¹⁵ On the other side – either side of the entrance to the court – there were fifteen cubits of hangings with their three posts and three sockets.

¹⁶ All the hangings enclosing the court were of fine twined linen.

¹⁷ The sockets for the posts were of bronze and their hooks of silver, like the plating on their capitals. The posts for the court all had their rods of silver.

¹⁸ The screen for the gateway of the court, the work of a skilled embroiderer, was made of purple stuffs, violet shade and red, of crimson stuffs, and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and, along the width of it, five cubits high, like the hangings of the court.

¹⁹ Its four posts with their four sockets were of bronze. The hooks for the posts were of silver, like the plating on their capitals and like their rods.

²⁰ The pegs for the tabernacle and for the court enclosure were all of bronze.

²¹ Here is the account of metals used for the tabernacle – the tabernacle of the Testimony – the account drawn up by order of Moses, the work of the Levites[*a] under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.

²² Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh had directed Moses to have made.

²³ His partner was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, engraver, damask weaver, embroiderer in purple stuffs, of violet shade and red, in crimson stuffs and fine linen.

²⁴ The amount of gold used in the work – the entire work for the sanctuary – (this was gold consecrated by offering) was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels (reckoning by the sanctuary shekel).

²⁵ The silver collected when the census of the community was taken weighed one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels (reckoning by the sanctuary shekel),

²⁶ one beqa per head, or half a shekel (reckoning by the sanctuary shekel) for everyone of twenty years and over included in the census. These numbered six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

²⁷ The hundred talents of silver were used for casting the sockets for the sanctuary and for the veil: one hundred sockets out of the hundred talents, or one talent per socket.

²⁸ With the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made the hooks for the posts, the plating for their capitals, and their rods.

²⁹ The bronze consecrated by offering amounted to seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels,

³⁰ and with this he made the sockets for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar with its grating of bronze and all the furnishings for it,

³¹ the sockets for the enclosure of the court, those for the gateway to the court, all the pegs for the tabernacle, and all the pegs for the court enclosure.