The altar of burnt offering
1They38:1 Or He; also in verses 2-9 built the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, three cubits38:1 That is, about 1.4 metres high; it was square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.38:1 That is, about 2.3 metres long and wide 2They made a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar were of one piece, and they overlaid the altar with bronze. 3They made all its utensils of bronze – its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans. 4They made a grating for the altar, a bronze network, to be under its ledge, halfway up the altar. 5They cast bronze rings to hold the poles for the four corners of the bronze grating. 6They made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 7They inserted the poles into the rings so they would be on the sides of the altar for carrying it. They made it hollow, out of boards.
The basin for washing
8They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
The courtyard
9Next they made the courtyard. The south side was a hundred cubits38:9 That is, about 45 metres long and had curtains of finely twisted linen, 10with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. 11The north side was also a hundred cubits long and had twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
12The west end was fifty cubits38:12 That is, about 23 metres wide and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts. 13The east end, towards the sunrise, was also fifty cubits wide. 14Curtains fifteen cubits38:14 That is, about 6.8 metres long were on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases, 15and curtains fifteen cubits long were on the other side of the entrance to the courtyard, with three posts and three bases. 16All the curtains around the courtyard were of finely twisted linen. 17The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks and bands on the posts were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver; so all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands.
18The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was made of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen – the work of an embroiderer. It was twenty cubits38:18 That is, about 9 metres long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits38:18 That is, about 2.3 metres high, 19with four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks and bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver. 20All the tent pegs of the tabernacle and of the surrounding courtyard were bronze.
The materials used
21These are the amounts of the materials used for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant law, which were recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest. 22(Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything the Lord commanded Moses; 23with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan – an engraver and designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen.) 24The total amount of the gold from the wave offering used for all the work on the sanctuary was 29 talents and 730 shekels,38:24 The weight of the gold was about 1 metric ton. according to the sanctuary shekel.
25The silver obtained from those of the community who were counted in the census was 100 talents38:25 That is, about 3.4 metric tons; also in verse 27 and 1,775 shekels,38:25 That is, about 20 kilograms; also in verse 28 according to the sanctuary shekel – 26one beka per person, that is, half a shekel,38:26 That is, about 5.7 grams according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men. 27The 100 talents of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and for the curtain – 100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent for each base. 28They used the 1,775 shekels to make the hooks for the posts, to overlay the tops of the posts, and to make their bands.
29The bronze from the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.38:29 The weight of the bronze was about 2.4 metric tons. 30They used it to make the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the bronze altar with its bronze grating and all its utensils, 31the bases for the surrounding courtyard and those for its entrance and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and those for the surrounding courtyard.
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1焼き尽くすいけにえの祭壇も、アカシヤ材で作りました。上部は五キュビト（二・二メートル）四方の正方形、高さは三キュビトです。 2四隅に、他の部分と切れ目なく続くよう、四本の角をつけました。祭壇には青銅を張り、 3祭壇で使うつぼ、十能（灰をすくう道具）、鉢、肉刺し、火皿などの器具類も青銅で作りました。 4次に、炉の半ばあたりに棧を張り、そこに青銅の格子を置きました。 5環を四つ作り、格子の四隅の部分でかつぎ棒を通せるようにしました。 6かつぎ棒はアカシヤ材で、青銅をかぶせてあります。 7祭壇の側面につけた環に、その棒を通します。祭壇の側面は板で、中は空洞でした。
8幕屋の入口で奉仕していた女たちが、青銅の鏡をささげたので、それを使って青銅の洗い鉢とその台を作りました。
9次は庭です。南側は百キュビト（四十四メートル）で、細い上等の撚り糸を織って幕を作り、それを張り巡らしました。 10幕を垂らす柱を二十本立てました。土台は青銅で、柱には銀のかぎと環をつけました。
11北側にも百キュビトの幕を張り、青銅の柱二十本とその土台、銀のかぎと環があります。 12西側は五十キュビトで、十本の柱と土台で幕を支えました。柱には、やはり銀のかぎと環がついています。 13東側も五十キュビトです。 14-15入口の両側には、幅十五キュビトの幕を垂らし、それぞれ三個の土台に立てた三本の柱で支えました。 16庭の仕切りとして巡らした幕は、どれも細い上等の撚り糸で織ったものです。 17柱はみな青銅の土台にはめ込み、かぎと環は銀です。柱の頭部には銀をかぶせ、幕を垂らす環は純銀でした。 18庭の入口に垂らすカーテンは上質の亜麻布で作り、青、紫、緋色の撚り糸で美しい刺しゅうをしました。幕の幅は二十キュビト、高さは五キュビトで、庭の仕切りとした他の幕と同じ高さです。 19幕は四本の柱と四個の青銅の土台、銀のかぎと環で支えました。柱の頭部も銀でした。 20幕屋と庭を作るのに用いた釘は、すべて青銅です。
21これが、契約の箱を納める幕屋（聖所）の建設工事の諸工程です。幕屋ができ上がり、ようやくレビ族が奉仕につけるようになりました。いっさいの工事は、モーセが立てた計画どおり行われ、祭司アロンの子イタマルが監督しました。 22ユダ族のウリの子で、フルの孫に当たるベツァルエルが技術面での責任者となり、 23ダン族のアヒサマクの子オホリアブが助手を務めました。彼も熟練した職人で、彫刻、設計、色とりどりの刺しゅうをするのに、すぐれた腕を発揮しました。
24人々が奉納し、幕屋建設に使った金は約一千キログラムに達しました。 25-26銀は三、四四〇キロ使われました。これは、人口調査の時に登録する二十歳以上の人から取り立てた、半シェケルの人頭税でまかなわれました。登録したのは、計六十万三、五五〇人です。 27聖所の壁となるわく組みの土台と、垂れ幕を支える柱の土台には、一個につき三十四キログラム、計三、四〇〇キログラムの銀が必要でした。 28残った銀は柱頭にかぶせたり、環やかぎを作るために使いました。 29青銅は約二、四〇〇キログラム奉納され、 30-31天幕の入口に立てる柱の土台、祭壇、格子、祭壇に付属する器具類、庭を仕切る引き幕を支える柱の土台、天幕と庭の釘などを作るのに使われました。
