Exodus 38

Modern

Literal

The Bronze Altar

¹Bezalel constructed^a the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.^b

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.

²He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.

²And He made its horns on the four corners; its horns were from it. And he overlaid it with bronze.

³He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

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.

⁴He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

⁴And he made for the altar a grate of work of net of bronze under its ledge from below up to its middle.

⁵At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.

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.

⁷Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.

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

⁸Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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

⁹Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long^a and had curtains of finely spun linen,

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 twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

¹⁰with their twenty pillars and twenty bronze bases. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver.

¹¹The north side was also a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts 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.

¹²The west side was fifty cubits long^a and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and bands of the posts 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 also fifty cubits long.

¹³And the east side toward the sunrise was fifty cubits.

¹⁴The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long,^a with three posts and three bases.

¹⁴The hangings on one side were five and ten cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.

¹⁵And the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.

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 curtains around the courtyard were made of finely spun linen.

¹⁶All the hangings of the court were of finely woven linen all around.

¹⁷The bases for the posts were bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.

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.

¹⁸The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long^a and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,^b

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.

¹⁹with four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, as well as the bands and the plating of their tops.

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.

²⁰All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.

²⁰And all the pegs of the tabernacle and of the court were bronze all around.

An Inventory of Materials

²¹This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

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.

²²Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded Moses.

²²And Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, did all that YHWH had commanded Moses.

²³With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

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 from the wave offering used for the work on the sanctuary totaled 29 talents and 730 shekels,^a according to the sanctuary shekel.

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.

²⁵The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels,^a according to the sanctuary shekel—

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 beka per person, that is, half a shekel,^a according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.

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.

²⁷The hundred talents of silver^a were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.

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.

²⁸With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made^a the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.

²⁸And 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.

²⁹The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.^a

²⁹And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

³⁰He used it to make the bases for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar and its bronze grating, all the utensils for the altar,

³⁰And 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,

³¹the bases for the surrounding courtyard and its gate, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and its surrounding courtyard.

³¹and 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.