Exodus 38 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Tabernacle Completed

(Exo 27:1–8 )

Exo 38:1Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, five [fn]cubits [fn]long, and five cubits [fn]wide, square, and three cubits [fn]high.

Exo 38:2

Exo 38:2He made its horns on its four corners, its horns [fn]being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with [fn]bronze.

Exo 38:3

Exo 38:3He made all the utensils of the altar, the pails and the shovels and the basins, the flesh hooks and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

Exo 38:4

Exo 38:4He made for the altar a grating of bronze network beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up.

Exo 38:5

Exo 38:5He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.

Exo 38:6

Exo 38:6He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

Exo 38:7

Exo 38:7He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

Exo 38:8

Exo 38:8Moreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, [fn]from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

(Exo 27:9–19 )

Exo 38:9

Exo 38:9Then he made the court: [fn]for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits;

Exo 38:10

Exo 38:10their twenty pillars, and their twenty [fn]sockets, made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands were of silver.

Exo 38:11

Exo 38:11For the north side there were one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty [fn]sockets were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands were of silver.

Exo 38:12

Exo 38:12For the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten [fn]sockets; the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands were of silver.

Exo 38:13

Exo 38:13For the [fn]east side fifty cubits.

Exo 38:14

Exo 38:14The hangings for the one [fn]side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three [fn]sockets,

Exo 38:15

Exo 38:15and so for the [fn]other [fn]side. [fn]On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three [fn]sockets.

Exo 38:16

Exo 38:16All the hangings of the court all around were of fine twisted linen.

Exo 38:17

Exo 38:17The [fn]sockets for the pillars were of [fn]bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their [fn]bands, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops, of silver, and all the pillars of the court were furnished with silver [fn]bands.

Exo 38:18

Exo 38:18The screen of the gate of the court was the work of the [fn]weaver, of [fn]blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was twenty cubits and the [fn]height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

Exo 38:19

Exo 38:19Their four pillars and their four [fn]sockets were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their [fn]bands were of silver.

Exo 38:20

Exo 38:20All the pegs of the [fn]tabernacle and of the court all around were of bronze.

The Cost of the Tabernacle

Exo 38:21

Exo 38:21 [fn]This is the number of the things for the [fn]tabernacle, the [fn]tabernacle of the testimony, as they were [fn]numbered according to the [fn]command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Exo 38:22

Exo 38:22Now Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

Exo 38:23

Exo 38:23With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and a [fn]weaver in [fn]blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and fine linen.

Exo 38:24

Exo 38:24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

Exo 38:25

Exo 38:25The silver of those of the congregation who were [fn]numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

Exo 38:26

Exo 38:26a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were [fn]numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

Exo 38:27

Exo 38:27The hundred talents of silver were for casting the [fn]sockets of the sanctuary and the [fn]sockets of the veil; one hundred [fn]sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a [fn]socket.

Exo 38:28

Exo 38:28Of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made [fn]bands for them.

Exo 38:29

Exo 38:29The bronze of the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.

Exo 38:30

Exo 38:30With it he made the [fn]sockets to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar,

Exo 38:31

Exo 38:31and the [fn]sockets of the court all around and the [fn]sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the [fn]tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(38:1)

I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.

(38:1)

Literally: its length

(38:1)

Literally: its width

(38:1)

Literally: its height

(38:2)

Literally: were

(38:2)

Or, copper, and so for bronze throughout the chapter

(38:8)

Literally: with

(38:9)

Literally: to the side of the Negev, to the south

Or, bases

Or, fillets, rings

Or, bases

Or, fillets, rings

Or, bases

Or, fillets, rings

Literally: east side, eastward

(38:14)

Literally: shoulder

(38:14)

Or, bases

(38:15)

Literally: second

(38:15)

Literally: shoulder

(38:15)

Literally: On this side and on that side

Or, bases

Or, bases

Or, copper

Or, fillets, rings

Literally: variegator; i.e. a weaver in colors

(38:18)

Or, violet

(38:18)

Literally: height in width

(38:19)

Or, bases

(38:19)

Or, fillets, rings

(38:20)

Literally: dwelling place

(38:21)

Literally: These are the appointed things of the tabernacle

(38:21)

Literally: dwelling place

(38:21)

Literally: appointed

(38:21)

Literally: mouth

(38:23)

Literally: variegator; i.e. a weaver in colors

(38:23)

Or, violet

(38:25)

Literally: mustered

(38:26)

Literally: mustered

Or, bases

Or, fillets, rings

Or, bases

Or, bases

Literally: dwelling place

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