Exodus 38:21

Materials for the Tabernacle

21 These are the records of the tabernacle, ¹the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites ²under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Exodus 38:21 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 38:21

This is the sum of the tabernacle
Not of the several parts of the tabernacle, and the several things belonging to it, before enumerated, as made and delivered to the care and custody of the Levites, but of the materials of which they were made, particularly the gold and silver, and the brass; the several sums and weight of which are given in the following verses:

[even] of the tabernacle of the testimony;
in which the law, the testimony of the will of God, was put enclosed in the ark:

as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses;
when it was brought in to him by the people, and delivered by him to Bezaleel, Aholiab, and the artificers;

[for] the service of the Levites;
or by means of their ministry, who were employed in taking this account:

by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest;
the youngest son of Aaron, who had the direction and oversight of this affair.

Exodus 38:21 In-Context

19 And their pillars were four in number. Their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.

20 And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.

21 These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

22 Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses;

23 and with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 1:50, 53; Numbers 9:15; Numbers 10:11; Numbers 17:7, 8; Numbers 18:2; 2 Chronicles 24:6; Acts 7:44; [Exodus 16:34]
• 2. Exodus 6:23; Exodus 28:1; Numbers 4:28, 33