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Everything that was to be set on the table was made of pure gold—the bowls, plates, jars, and cups for wine offerings.

For burning incense, Bezalel made an altar of acacia wood. It was eighteen inches square and thirty-six inches high with each of its four corners sticking up like the horn of a bull.

Then below the edging on opposite sides he attached two gold rings through which he put the poles for carrying the altar.

Bezalel mixed the oil for dedication and the sweet-smelling spices for the incense.

Bezalel built an altar of acacia wood for offering sacrifices. It was seven and a half feet square and four and a half feet high

The equipment for the altar was also made of bronze—the pans for the hot ashes, the shovels, the meat forks, and the fire pans.

put them through the rings for carrying the altar, which was shaped like an open box.

Around the sacred tent Bezalel built a courtyard one hundred fifty feet long on the south and north and seventy-five feet wide on the east and west. He used twenty bronze posts on bronze stands for the south and north and ten for the west. Then he hung a curtain of fine linen on the posts along each of these three sides by using silver hooks and rods. He placed three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hung a curtain seven and a half yards wide on each set of posts.

For the entrance to the courtyard, Bezalel made a curtain ten yards long, which he hung on four bronze posts that were set on bronze stands. This curtain was the same height as the one for the rest of the courtyard and was made of fine linen embroidered and woven with blue, purple, and red wool. He hung the curtain on the four posts, using silver hooks and rods.

The pegs for the tent and for the curtain around the tent were made of bronze.

Bezalel had worked closely with Oholiab, who was an expert at designing and engraving, and at embroidering blue, purple, and red wool. The two of them completed the work that the Lord had commanded. Moses made Aaron's son Ithamar responsible for keeping record of the metals used for the sacred tent.

Seventy-five pounds of the silver were used to make each of the one hundred stands for the sacred tent and the curtain.

The remaining fifty pounds of silver were used for the hooks and rods and for covering the tops of the posts.

And it was used to make the stands for the entrance to the tent, the altar and its grating, the equipment for the altar,

the stands for the posts that surrounded the courtyard, including those at the entrance to the courtyard, and the pegs for the tent and the courtyard.

Beautiful priestly clothes were made of blue, purple, and red wool for Aaron to wear when he performed his duties in the holy place. This was done exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses.

with an opening in the center for the head. The material around the collar was bound so as to keep it from raveling.

the gold-covered incense altar; the ordination oil and the sweet-smelling incense; the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

the bronze altar for sacrifices with its bronze grating, its carrying poles, and its equipment; the large bronze bowl with its stand;

the curtain with its posts and cords, and its pegs and stands that go around the courtyard; everything needed for the sacred tent;