Exodus 38 :: New English Translation (NET)

The Tabernacle Completed

(Exo 27:1–8 )

Exo 38:1He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide - it was square - and its height was four feet six inches.

Exo 38:2

Exo 38:2He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

Exo 38:3

Exo 38:3He made all the utensils of the altar - the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans - he made all its utensils of bronze.

Exo 38:4

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

Exo 38:5

Exo 38:5He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places 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 put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.

Exo 38:8

Exo 38:8He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

(Exo 27:9–19 )

Exo 38:9

Exo 38:9He made the courtyard. For the south side the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long,

Exo 38:10

Exo 38:10with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exo 38:11

Exo 38:11For the north side the hangings were one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exo 38:12

Exo 38:12For the west side there were hangings seventy-five feet long, with their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exo 38:13

Exo 38:13For the east side, toward the sunrise, it was seventy-five feet wide,

Exo 38:14

Exo 38:14with hangings on one side of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases,

Exo 38:15

Exo 38:15and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

Exo 38:16

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

Exo 38:17

Exo 38:17The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks of the posts and their bands were silver, their tops were overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands.

Exo 38:18

Exo 38:18The curtain for the gate of the courtyard was of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. It was thirty feet long, and like the hangings in the courtyard, it was seven and a half feet high,

Exo 38:19

Exo 38:19with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver.

Exo 38:20

Exo 38:20All the tent pegs of the tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were bronze.

The Cost of the Tabernacle

Exo 38:21

Exo 38:21This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which was counted by the order of Moses, being the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

Exo 38:22

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

Exo 38:23

Exo 38:23and with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an artisan, a designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

Exo 38:24

Exo 38:24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary (namely, the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Exo 38:25

Exo 38:25The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel,

Exo 38:26

Exo 38:26one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.

Exo 38:27

Exo 38:27The one hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the special curtain - one hundred bases for one hundred talents, one talent per base.

Exo 38:28

Exo 38:28From the remaining 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.

Exo 38:29

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

Exo 38:30

Exo 38:30With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar,

Exo 38:31

Exo 38:31the bases for the courtyard all around, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs of the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard all around.

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Exodus 38 :: New English Translation (NET)

The Tabernacle Completed

The Cost of the Tabernacle

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