Exodus 38 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Tabernacle Completed

(Exo 27:1–8 )

Exo 38:1He made the altar of burnt offering also of acacia wood; five cubits was its length, and five cubits its breadth; it was square, and three cubits was its height.

Exo 38:2

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

Exo 38:3

Exo 38:3And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the firepans: all its utensils he made of bronze.

Exo 38:4

Exo 38:4And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down.

Exo 38:5

Exo 38:5He cast four rings on the four corners 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 38:7And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them; he made it hollow, with boards.

Exo 38:8

Exo 38:8And he made the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.

(Exo 27:9–19 )

Exo 38:9

Exo 38:9And he made the court; for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;

Exo 38:10

Exo 38:10their pillars were twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Exo 38:11

Exo 38:11And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Exo 38:12

Exo 38:12And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Exo 38:13

Exo 38:13And for the front to the east, fifty cubits.

Exo 38:14

Exo 38:14The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.

Exo 38:15

Exo 38:15And so for the other side; on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.

Exo 38:16

Exo 38:16All the hangings round about the court were of fine twined linen.

Exo 38:17

Exo 38:17And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; the overlaying of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

Exo 38:18

Exo 38:18And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

Exo 38:19

Exo 38:19And their pillars were four; their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.

Exo 38:20

Exo 38:20And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court round about were of bronze.

The Cost of the Tabernacle

Exo 38:21

Exo 38:21This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted at the commandment of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ith'amar the son of Aaron the priest.

Exo 38:22

Exo 38:22Bez'alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses;

Exo 38:23

Exo 38:23and with him was Oho'liab the son of Ahis'amach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen.

Exo 38:24

Exo 38:24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

Exo 38:25

Exo 38:25And the silver from those of the congregation who were numbered was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:

Exo 38:26

Exo 38:26a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for every one who was numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.

Exo 38:27

Exo 38:27The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base.

Exo 38:28

Exo 38:28And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them.

Exo 38:29

Exo 38:29And the bronze that was contributed was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels;

Exo 38:30

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

Exo 38:31

Exo 38:31the bases round about the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs round about the court.

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Exodus 38 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Tabernacle Completed

The Cost of the Tabernacle

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