Exodus 38:21-31

The Cost of the Tabernacle

21 This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

22 Now ¹Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

23 With him was ²Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skillful workman and a weaver in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and fine linen.

24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the wave offering, was 29 * talents and 730 * * shekels, according to ³the shekel of the sanctuary.

25 ⁴The silver of those of the congregation who were numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 * * * * shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

26 ⁵a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary ), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 * * * * * * * men.

27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

28 Of the 1,775 * * * * shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made bands for them.

29 The bronze of the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 * * shekels.

30 With it he made the sockets to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar,

31 and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.

Exodus 38:21-31 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 38

This chapter is a continuation of the account of the making of the things belonging to the tabernacle, particularly the altar of burnt offering, Ex 38:1-7 the laver of brass, and the things it was made of, Ex 38:8 the court and its hangings, pillars, sockets, hooks and pins, Ex 38:9-20 then follows an account of the quantities of gold, silver, and brass, expended in the making of the several things appertaining to the sanctuary, Ex 38:21-31.

Bezaleel made it, or it was made by his direction, he having the care and oversight of it, wherefore the making of it is ascribed to him, 2Ch 1:5 the account of this, its horns, vessels, rings, and staves, is carried on to Ex 38:2-7 of which \\see Gill on "Ex 27:1"\\ \\see Gill on "Ex 27:2"\\ \\see Gill on "Ex 27:3"\\ \\see Gill on "Ex 27:4"\\ \\see Gill on "Ex 27:5"\\ \\see Gill on "Ex 27:6"\\ \\see Gill on "Ex 27:7"\\ \\see Gill on "Ex 27:8"\\. 10593-941108-1338-Ex38.2

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 31:2
• 2. Exodus 31:6
• 3. Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16
• 4. Exodus 30:11-16
• 5. Exodus 30:13, 15
• 6. Exodus 12:37; Numbers 1:46; Numbers 26:51

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "These are the appointed things of the tabernacle"
• [b]. Lit "dwelling place"
• [c]. Lit "dwelling place"
• [d]. Lit "appointed"
• [e]. Lit "mouth"
• [f]. Lit "variegator;" i.e. a weaver in colors
• [g]. Or "violet"
• [h]. Lit "mustered"
• [i]. Lit "mustered"
• [j]. Or "bases"
• [k]. Or "bases"
• [l]. Or "bases"
• [m]. Or "bases"
• [n]. Or "fillets, rings"
• [o]. Or "bases"
• [p]. Or "bases"
• [q]. Or "bases"
• [r]. Lit "dwelling place"