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The Tabernacle Completed

^1 (C1)Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, ^(F1)five cubits ^(F2)long, and five cubits ^(F3)wide, square, and three cubits ^(F4)high.² And he made its horns on its four corners, its horns ^(F1)being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with ^(F2)bronze.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.⁴ And he made for the altar a grating of bronze netting beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up.⁵ He also cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.⁶ He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.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.

^8 (C1)Moreover, he made the basin of bronze with its base of bronze, ^(F1)from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

^9 (C1)Then he made the courtyard: ^(F1)for the south side the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits;¹⁰ their twenty pillars, and their twenty bases, were made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their ^(F1)bands were of silver.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 ^(F1)bands were of silver.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 ^(F1)bands were of silver.¹³ For the ^(F1)east side, fifty cubits.¹⁴ The hangings for the one ^(F1)side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases,¹⁵ and so for the ^(F1)other ^(F2)side. ^(F3)On both sides of the gate of the courtyard were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.¹⁶ All the hangings of the courtyard all around were of fine twisted linen.¹⁷ And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their ^(F1)bands, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops, of silver, and all the pillars of the courtyard were furnished with silver ^(F1)bands.¹⁸ Now the curtain of the gate of the courtyard was the work of the ^(F1)weaver, of ^(F2)violet, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was twenty cubits and the ^(F3)height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.¹⁹ Their four pillars and their four bases were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their ^(F1)bands were of silver.²⁰ All the pegs of the ^(F1)tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were of bronze.

The Cost of the Tabernacle

^21 (F1)This is the number of the things for the ^(F2)tabernacle, the ^(F2)tabernacle of the testimony, as they were ^(F3)counted according to the ^(F4)command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.²² Now ^(C1)Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded Moses.²³ With him was ^(C1)Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skilled embroiderer, and a ^(F1)weaver in violet, in purple, and in scarlet material, and fine linen.

²⁴ All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, ^(F1)which was the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine ^(F2)talents and 730 ^(F3)shekels, according to ^(C1)the shekel of the sanctuary.²⁵ And ^(C1)the silver of those of the congregation who were ^(F1)counted was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;^26 (C1)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 ^(F1)counted, from twenty years old and upward, for ^(C2)603,550 men.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.²⁸ And of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and made ^(F1)bands for them.²⁹ And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.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,³¹ and the bases of the courtyard all around and the bases of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs of the ^(F1)tabernacle and all the pegs of the courtyard all around.