Exodus 38
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The Bronze Altar
(Exodus 27:1–8)

1And He made the altar of the burnt offering of acacia wood, five cubits its length, and five cubits its width—square—and three cubits its height. 2And He made its horns on the four corners; its horns were from it. And he overlaid it with bronze.

3And He made all the vessels of the altar: The pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the forks, and the firepans; all its vessels he made of bronze. 4And he made for the altar a grate of work of net of bronze under its ledge from below up to its middle.

5And He cast four rings for the four corners, for the grate of bronze, as holders for the poles. 6And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 7And he brought the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them. He made the altar hollow, of boards.

The Bronze Basin
(Exodus 30:17–21)

8And he made the basin of bronze, and its stand of bronze, with mirros of the serving women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

The Courtyard
(Exodus 27:9–19)

9And he made the court on the south side southward. The hangings of the court were of finely woven linen, a hundred by the cubit, 10with their twenty pillars and twenty bronze bases. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. 11And the north side was a hundred by the cubit, with twenty pillars and twenty bronze bases. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. 12And on the west side were hangings fifty by the cubit, with ten pillars and ten bases. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver. 13And the east side toward the sunrise was fifty cubits.

14The hangings on one side were five and ten cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases. 15And on the second side at the gate of the court, from this and from that, were hangings of five and ten cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases. 16All the hangings of the court were of finely woven linen all around. 17And 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, and they—all the pillars of the court—had bands of silver.

18And the screen of the gate of the court, the work of a weaver was of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely woven linen. And twenty cubits was the length, and the height along its width was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court. 19And there were four pillars and their four bases of bronze; their hooks were silver, and the overlay of their tops and their bands was silver. 20And all the pegs of the tabernacle and of the court were bronze all around.

An Inventory of Materials
(Ezra 2:68–70; Nehemiah 7:70–73)

21These are the numberings of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, which were counted by the mouth of Moses, the service of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. 22And Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, did all that YHWH had commanded Moses. 23And with him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer and weaver in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet yarn, and in the fine linen.

24All the gold used for the work in all the work of the Holy place (and it was the gold of the wave offering) was nine and twenty talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

25And the silver of those numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary— 26a bekah per head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who had passed over to be numbered, from a son of twenty years old and above, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

27And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the Holy place and the bases of the veil—a hundred bases for the hundred talents, one talent per base.

And the thousand and the seven hundred and five and seventy shekels he made the hooks for the pillars, and he overlaid their tops, and he made bands for them.

And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels. And he made with it the bases of the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the bronze altar, and the bronze grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar, and the bases of the court all around, and the bases of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs of the court all around.




Footnotes:

1 That is, Bezalel made
1 The altar was approximately 7.5 feet in length and width, and 4.5 feet high (2.3 meters in length and width, and 1.4 meters high).
9 100 cubits is approximately 150 feet or 45.7 meters.
12 50 cubits is approximately 75 feet or 22.9 meters.
14 15 cubits is approximately 22.5 feet or 6.9 meters.
18 20 cubits is approximately 30 feet or 9.1 meters.
18 5 cubits is approximately 7.5 feet or 2.3 meters.
24 The total weight of the gold (29 talents and 730 shekels) was approximately 1.1 tons or 1 metric ton.
25 The total weight of the silver (100 talents and 1,775 shekels) was approximately 3.79 tons or 3.44 metric tons.
26 A beka is half a shekel, or approximately 0.2 ounces or 5.7 grams.
27 100 talents is approximately 3.77 tons or 3.42 metric tons of silver.
28 1,775 shekels is approximately 44.6 pounds or 20.2 kilograms of silver.
29 The total weight of the bronze (70 talents and 2,400 shekels) was approximately 2.67 tons or 2.42 metric tons.

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