The Tabernacle Completed

1Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, [a]five cubits [b]long, and five cubits [c]wide, square, and three cubits [d]high. 2And he made its horns on its four corners, its horns [e]being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with [f]bronze. 3He also made all the utensils of the altar, the pails, the shovels, the basins, the meat-forks, and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze. 4And he made for the altar a grating of bronze netting beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up. 5He also cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. 6He 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, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

8Moreover, he made the basin of bronze with its base of bronze, [g]from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

9Then he made the courtyard: [h]for the south side the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits; 10their twenty pillars, and their twenty bases, were made of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their [i]bands were of silver. 11For the north side there were a hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their [j]bands were of silver. 12For the west side there were hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their [k]bands were of silver. 13For the [l]east side, fifty cubits. 14The hangings for the one [m]side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases, 15and so for the [n]other [o]side. [p]On both sides of the gate of the courtyard were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases. 16All the hangings of the courtyard all around were of fine twisted linen. 17And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their [q]bands, of silver; and the overlaying of their tops, of silver, and all the pillars of the courtyard were furnished with silver [r]bands. 18Now the curtain of the gate of the courtyard was the work of the [s]weaver, of [t]violet, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was twenty cubits and the [u]height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard. 19Their four pillars and their four bases were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their [v]bands were of silver. 20All the pegs of the [w]tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were of bronze.

The Cost of the Tabernacle

21[x]This is the number of the things for the [y]tabernacle, the [z]tabernacle of the testimony, as they were [aa]counted according to the [ab]command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 22Now Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded Moses. 23With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skilled embroiderer, and a [ac]weaver in violet, in purple, and in scarlet material, and fine linen.

24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, [ad]which was the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine [ae]talents and 730 [af]shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 25And the silver of those of the congregation who were [ag]counted was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; 26a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), assessed to each one who passed over to those who were [ah]counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men. 27The hundred talents of silver were used 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. 28And of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and made [ai]bands for them. 29And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels. 30With it he made the bases to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar, 31and the bases of the courtyard all around and the bases of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs of the [aj]tabernacle and all the pegs of the courtyard all around.

[a] 1 About 7.5 ft. square and 4.5 ft. high or 2.3 m and 1.4 m
[b] 1 Lit its length
[c] 1 Lit its width
[d] 1 Lit its height
[e] 2 Lit were
[f] 2 Or copper, and so for bronze throughout the ch
[g] 8 Lit with
[h] 9 Lit to the side of the Negev, to the south
[i] 10 Or rings
[j] 11 Or rings
[k] 12 Or rings
[l] 13 Lit east side, eastward
[m] 14 Lit shoulder
[n] 15 Lit second
[o] 15 Lit shoulder
[p] 15 Lit On this side and on that side
[q] 17 Or rings
[r] 17 Or rings
[s] 18 Lit variegator; i.e., a weaver in colors
[t] 18 Or bluish; LXX hyacinth in color, and so throughout the ch
[u] 18 Lit height in width
[v] 19 Or rings
[w] 20 Lit dwelling place
[x] 21 Lit These are the appointed things of the tabernacle
[y] 21 Lit dwelling place
[z] 21 Lit dwelling place
[aa] 21 Lit appointed
[ab] 21 Lit mouth
[ac] 23 Lit variegator; i.e., a weaver in colors
[ad] 24 Lit and it was
[ae] 24 A talent was about 75 lb. or 34 kg
[af] 24 A shekel was about 0.5 oz. or 14 gm
[ag] 25 Lit mustered
[ah] 26 Lit mustered
[ai] 28 Or rings
[aj] 31 Lit dwelling place