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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 38
1 He 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.
2 He made its horns on its four corners.
Its horns were of one piece with it, and he
overlaid it with bronze.
3 He 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.
4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it
beneath, reaching halfway up.
5 He cast four rings for the four corners
ofbronze grating,tobeplaces for thepoles.
6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and
overlaid them with bronze.
7 He put the poles into the rings on the
sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He
made it hollow with planks.
8 He 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.
9 He made the court: for the south side
southward the hangings of the court were
of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
10 their pillars were twenty, and their
sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11 For 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.
12 For the west side werehangings offifty
cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets
ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their
fillets, of silver.
13 For the east side eastward fifty cubits,
14 the hangings for the one side were
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
sockets three;
15 and 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.
16 All the hangings around the court
were of fine twined linen.
17 The 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.
18 The screenfor the gate ofthe 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.
19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver,
and the overlaying of their capitals, and
their fillets, of silver.
20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and
around the court, were of bronze.
21 These 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.
22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur,
of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh
commanded Moses.
23 With 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.
24 All 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.
25 The 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:
26 a 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.
27 The 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.
28 From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels§ he made hooks
for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and
made fillets for them.
29The bronze ofthe offering was seventy
talents† and two thousand four hundred
shekels.‡
30 With this he made the sockets to the
door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels
of the altar,
31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of
the tabernacle, and all the pins around the
court.
† 38:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of
the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. 38:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces. § 38:24 A shekel is about 10 grams or
about 0.32 Troy ounces. † 38:25 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds ‡ 38:25 A shekel is about 10 grams
or about 0.35 ounces. § 38:26 a beka is about 5 grams or about 0.175 ounces † 38:26 A shekel is about 10 grams
or about 0.35 ounces. ‡ 38:27 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds. § 38:28 A shekel is about 10 grams
or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds. † 38:29 A talent is about 30
kilograms or 66 pounds ‡ 38:29 70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons.
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