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 4 1/2 feet or about 1.4 meters high; it was square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.38:1 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters 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 150 feet or about 45 meters 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 75 feet or about 23 meters wide and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts. 13The east end, toward the sunrise, was also fifty cubits wide. 14Curtains fifteen cubits38:14 That is, about 22 feet or about 6.8 meters 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 30 feet or about 9 meters long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits38:18 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters 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 a little over a ton or 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 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons; also in verse 27 and 1,775 shekels,38:25 That is, about 44 pounds or 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 1/5 ounce or 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 1/2 tons or 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.
祭坛、院子和奉献的物品
1比撒列用皂荚木造了方形的燔祭坛，长宽各两米二，高一米三， 2在坛的四角造四个凸起的角，与坛连成一体，坛外面包上铜。 3他用铜造祭坛用的一切器具，就是锅、铲、碗、肉叉、火鼎。 4又造了一个铜网，铜网在祭坛围边的下方，向下伸展到祭坛的腰部， 5在铜网的四角铸四个铜环，以便穿横杠。 6他用皂荚木做横杠，包上铜， 7把横杠穿在坛两旁的铜环里，以便抬坛。坛是中空的，用木板制作。
8他用在会幕门口服侍的妇女们的铜镜造铜盆和盆座。
9他用帷幔围成院子，院子南面的帷幔用细麻织成，长四十五米。 10帷幔有二十根柱子，二十个带凹槽的铜底座，柱子上的钩和箍都是银的。 11北面的帷幔也是长四十五米，柱子、铜底座、钩和箍的样式都与南面的一样。 12西面的帷幔宽二十二米半，有十根柱子和十个带凹槽的底座，钩和箍都是银的。 13东面的帷幔也是宽二十二米半。 14-15入口两边的帷幔都是宽七米，各有三根柱子和三个带凹槽的底座。 16院子四面的帷幔都用细麻织成。 17柱子带凹槽的底座是铜的，柱子上面的钩和箍是银的，柱顶包银，院子所有的柱子都有银箍。 18院子入口的门帘用细麻和蓝色、紫色、朱红色毛线绣制，长九米、高两米二，与院子帷幔的高度一样。 19门帘有四根柱子和四个带凹槽的铜底座，柱子上的钩和箍都是银的，柱顶包银。 20圣幕和院子四围所有的橛子都是铜的。 21以上是安放约柜的圣幕中所用的物品，是照摩西的吩咐，由亚伦祭司的儿子以他玛指挥利未人清点的。
22犹大支派户珥的孙子、乌利的儿子比撒列做好了耶和华吩咐摩西预备的一切物品。 23他的助手是但支派亚希撒抹的儿子亚何利亚伯，是雕刻家和设计师，并善用细麻和蓝色、紫色、朱红色毛线刺绣。
24按圣所的秤计算，建造圣所共用了奉献的金子两万两。 25按圣所的秤计算，从登记的人口所收到的银子是六万八千四百两。 26这是所有登记的、年龄在二十岁以上的人所缴纳的银子，共有六十万三千五百五十人，每人交六克银子，以圣所的秤为准。 27铸造圣所带凹槽的底座和帷幔柱子带凹槽的底座共用了六万八千两银子，共铸造了一百个底座，每个底座用了六百八十两银子。 28剩下的四百两银子用来制造柱子上的钩和箍以及包柱顶。 29百姓奉献的铜共有两千四百公斤， 30用来制造会幕入口带凹槽的底座、祭坛、坛上的铜网及一切器具、 31院子周围和院子入口带凹槽的底座以及圣幕、院子周围所有的橛子。
