Exodus 38

38 ¹ He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was about seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide—square—and about four and a half feet high.

Horns, Grating, and Poles

² He made horns for it on its four corners, the horns of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. ³ He made all the utensils of the altar—the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze. ⁴ He made for the altar a bronze grating under its ledge, reaching halfway up. ⁵ He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating to hold the poles. ⁶ He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. ⁷ He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, so that it could be carried with them. He made it hollow, with boards.

The Bronze Basin

⁸ He made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

The Courtyard Takes Shape

⁹ Then he made the courtyard. On the south side the curtains of the courtyard were of finely twisted linen, about a hundred and fifty feet long.

Pillars, Hooks, and Hangings

¹⁰ Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. ¹¹ On the north side the curtains were about a hundred and fifty feet long; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. ¹² On the west side the curtains were about seventy-five feet long, with their ten pillars and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. ¹³ On the east side, toward the sunrise, the courtyard was about seventy-five feet wide. ¹⁴ The curtains for one side of the gate were about twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three pillars and their three bases, ¹⁵ and the same on the other side. On both sides of the courtyard gate were curtains about twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three pillars and their three bases. ¹⁶ All the curtains around the courtyard were of finely twisted linen. ¹⁷ The bases for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver, and the overlay of their tops was silver; all the pillars of the courtyard were banded with silver. ¹⁸ The curtain for the courtyard gate was embroidered in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen. It was about thirty feet long and about seven and a half feet high, like the curtains of the courtyard. ¹⁹ Their four pillars and their four bases were bronze; their hooks were silver, and the overlay of their tops and their bands was silver. ²⁰ All the pegs for the tabernacle and around the courtyard were bronze.

Bezalel and Oholiab

²¹ These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as Moses directed—the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

Gold, Silver, and Bronze Tallied

²² Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that our Father had commanded Moses, ²³ and with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, a designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

²⁴ All the gold used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary—the gold of the wave offering—weighed about two thousand one hundred ninety-three pounds, by the sanctuary standard. ¹ 1 v24 A talent was a large unit of weight, roughly 75 pounds (34 kg). ²⁵ The silver from those of the community who were counted weighed about seven thousand five hundred forty-five pounds, by the sanctuary standard: ²⁶ half a sanctuary shekel per person, for everyone who was registered in the count, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. ²⁷ About seven thousand five hundred pounds of silver was used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—a hundred bases from that silver, about seventy-five pounds for each base. ²⁸ From the forty-five pounds of silver he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them. ²⁹ The bronze of the wave offering weighed about five thousand three hundred ten pounds. ³⁰ With it he made the bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar with its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar, ³¹ the bases around the courtyard and the bases of the courtyard gate, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the courtyard.