38:1 Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, ①five cubits ②long, and five cubits ③wide, square, and three cubits ④high.
▷ ①About 7.5 ft. square and 4.5 ft. high or 2.3 m and 1.4 m ②Lit its length ③Lit its width ④Lit its height
38:2 And he made its horns on its four corners, its horns ①being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with ②bronze.
▷ ①Lit were ②Or copper, and so for bronze throughout the ch
38:3 He also made all the utensils of the altar, the pails, the shovels, the basins, the meat-forks, and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.
38:4 And he made for the altar a grating of bronze netting beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up.
38:5 He also cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.
38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
38:7 Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
38:8 Moreover, he made the basin of bronze with its base of bronze, ①from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
▷ ①Lit with
38:9 Then he made the courtyard: ①for the south side the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits;
▷ ①Lit to the side of the Negev, to the south
38:10 their twenty pillars, and their twenty bases, were made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their ①bands were of silver.
▷ ①Or rings
38:11 For the north side there were a hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their ①bands were of silver.
▷ ①Or rings
38:12 For the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their ①bands were of silver.
▷ ①Or rings
38:13 For the ①east side, fifty cubits.
▷ ①Lit east side, eastward
38:14 The hangings for the one ①side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases,
▷ ①Lit shoulder
38:15 and so for the ①other ②side. ③On both sides of the gate of the courtyard were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.
▷ ①Lit second ②Lit shoulder ③Lit On this side and on that side
38:16 All the hangings of the courtyard all around were of fine twisted linen.
38:17 And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their ①bands, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops, of silver, and all the pillars of the courtyard were furnished with silver ②bands.
▷ ①Or rings ②Or rings
38:18 Now the curtain of the gate of the courtyard was the work of the ①weaver, of ②violet, 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 courtyard.
▷ ①Lit variegator; i.e., a weaver in colors ②Or bluish; LXX hyacinth in color, and so throughout the ch ③Lit height in width
38:19 Their four pillars and their four bases were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their ①bands were of silver.
▷ ①Or rings
38:20 All the pegs of the ①tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were of bronze.
▷ ①Lit dwelling place
38:21 ①This is the number of the things for the ②tabernacle, the ③tabernacle of the testimony, as they were ④counted according to the ⑤command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
▷ ①Lit These are the appointed things of the tabernacle ②Lit dwelling place ③Lit dwelling place ④Lit appointed ⑤Lit mouth
38:22 Now Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded Moses.
38:23 With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skilled embroiderer, and a ①weaver in violet, in purple, and in scarlet material, and fine linen.
▷ ①Lit variegator; i.e., a weaver in colors
38:24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, ①which was the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine ②talents and 730 ③shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
▷ ①Lit and it was ②A talent was about 75 lb. or 34 kg ③A shekel was about 0.5 oz. or 14 gm
38:25 And the silver of those of the congregation who were ①counted was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
▷ ①Lit mustered
38:26 a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), assessed to each one who passed over to those who were ①counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.
▷ ①Lit mustered
38:27 The hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base.
38:28 And of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and made ①bands for them.
▷ ①Or rings
38:29 And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
38:30 With it he made the bases to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar,
38:31 and the bases of the courtyard all around and the bases of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs of the ①tabernacle and all the pegs of the courtyard all around.
▷ ①Lit dwelling place