The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,
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For burning offerings, he made an altar out of acacia wood. It was square, 7 1/2 feet long and 7 1/2 feet wide, and it was 4 1/2 feet high.
2 And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;
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He made the projections at the top of the four corners, so that they formed one piece with the altar. He covered it all with bronze.
3 And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass
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He also made all the equipment for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the hooks, and the fire pans. All this equipment was made of bronze.
4 And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;
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He made a bronze grating and put it under the rim of the altar, so that it reached halfway up the altar.
5 And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods.
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He made four carrying rings and put them on the four corners.
6 The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.
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He made carrying poles of acacia wood, covered them with bronze,
7 He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.
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and put them in the rings on each side of the altar. The altar was made of boards and was hollow.
8 And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.
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He made the bronze basin and its bronze base out of the mirrors belonging to the women who served at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence.
9 To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:
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For the Tent of the Lord's presence he made the enclosure out of fine linen curtains. On the south side the curtains were 50 yards long,
10 Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
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supported by twenty bronze posts in twenty bronze bases, with hooks and rods made of silver.
11 And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.
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The enclosure was the same on the north side.
12 And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.
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On the west side there were curtains 25 yards long, with ten posts and ten bases and with hooks and rods made of silver.
13 And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long.
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On the east side, where the entrance was, the enclosure was also 25 yards wide.
14 The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;
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On each side of the entrance there were 7 1/2 yards of curtains, with three posts and three bases.
15 And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases.
16 All the hangings were of the best linen.
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All the curtains around the enclosure were made of fine linen.
17 And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.
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The bases for the posts were made of bronze, and the hooks, the rods, and the covering of the tops of the posts were made of silver. All the posts around the enclosure were connected with silver rods.
18 And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides.
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The curtain for the entrance of the enclosure was made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and decorated with embroidery. It was 10 yards long and 2 1/2 yards high, like the curtains of the enclosure.
19 There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.
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It was supported by four posts in four bronze bases. Their hooks, the covering of their tops, and their rods were made of silver.
20 All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.
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All the pegs for the Tent and for the surrounding enclosure were made of bronze.
21 This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
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Here is a list of the amounts of the metals used in the Tent of the Lord's presence, where the two stone tablets were kept on which the Ten Commandments were written. The list was ordered by Moses and made by the Levites who worked under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
22 Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
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Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded.
23 And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; a designer and a trained workman, expert in needlework of blue and purple and red and the best linen.
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His helper, Oholiab son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, was an engraver, a designer, and a weaver of fine linen and of blue, purple, and red wool.
24 The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.
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All the gold that had been dedicated to the Lord for the sacred Tent weighed 2,195 pounds, weighed according to the official standard.
25 And the silver given by those who were numbered of the people was a hundred talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.
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The silver from the census of the community weighed 7,550 pounds, weighed according to the official standard.
26 A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.
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This amount equaled the total paid by all persons enrolled in the census, each one paying the required amount, weighed according to the official standard. There were 603,550 men twenty years old or older enrolled in the census.
27 Of this silver, a hundred talents was used for making the bases of the pillars of the holy place and of the veil; a talent for every base.
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Of the silver, 7,500 pounds were used to make the hundred bases for the sacred Tent and for the curtain, 75 pounds for each base.
28 And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.
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With the remaining 50 pounds of silver Bezalel made the rods, the hooks for the posts, and the covering for their tops.
29 The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels;
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The bronze which was dedicated to the Lord amounted to 5,310 pounds.
30 From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar,
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With it he made the bases for the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence, the bronze altar with its bronze grating, all the equipment for the altar,
31 And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.
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the bases for the surrounding enclosure and for the entrance of the enclosure, and all the pegs for the Tent and the surrounding enclosure.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.