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1 He made the altar for entirely burned offerings out of acacia wood. The altar was square, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide. It was four and a half feet high.
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He made the Altar of Whole-Burnt-Offering from acacia wood. He made it seven and a half feet square and four and a half feet high.
2 He made horns for it, one horn on each of its four corners. Its horns were attached to the altar, and he covered it with copper.
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He made horns at each of the four corners. The horns were made of one piece with the Altar and covered with a veneer of bronze.
3 He made all the altar's equipment: the pails, the shovels, the bowls, the meat forks, and the trays. He made all its equipment out of copper.
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He made from bronze all the utensils for the Altar: the buckets for removing the ashes, shovels, basins, forks, and fire pans.
4 He made a grate for the altar of copper mesh underneath its bottom edge and extending halfway up to the middle of the altar.
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He made a grate of bronze mesh under the ledge halfway up the Altar.
5 He made four rings for each of the four corners of the copper grate to house the poles.
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He cast four rings at each of the four corners of the bronze grating to hold the poles.
6 He made the poles out of acacia wood, and he covered them with copper.
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He made the poles of acacia wood and covered them with a veneer of bronze.
7 He put the poles through the rings so that the poles were on the two sides of the altar when it was carried. He made the altar with planks but hollow inside.
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He inserted the poles through the rings on the two sides of the Altar for carrying it. The Altar was made out of boards; it was hollow.
8 He made the copper washbasin with its copper stand from the copper mirrors among the ranks of women assigned to the meeting tent's entrance.
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He made the Bronze Washbasin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women's work group who were assigned to serve at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
9 He also set up the courtyard. The courtyard's south side had drapes of fine twisted linen stretching one hundred fifty feet
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And he made the Courtyard. On the south side the hangings for the Courtyard, woven from fine twisted linen, were 150 feet long,
10 with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts.
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with their twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver.
11 Likewise the north side stretched one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts.
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The north side was exactly the same.
12 On the west side the drapes stretched seventy-five feet, with their ten posts, their ten bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts.
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The west end of the Courtyard had seventy-five feet of hangings with ten posts and bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver.
13 The front side facing east was seventy-five feet.
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Across the seventy-five feet at the front, or east end,
14 There were twenty-two and a half feet of drapes on one side with three posts and three bases for them.
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were twenty-two and a half feet of hangings, with their three posts and bases on one side
15 Likewise, there were twenty-two and a half feet of drapes on the other side of the plaza's gate with three posts and three bases for them.
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and the same for the other side.
16 All the drapes around the courtyard were made of fine twisted linen.
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All the hangings around the Courtyard were of fine twisted linen.
17 The bases for the posts were made of copper, but the hooks for the posts and their bands were made of silver. The tops of the posts were covered with silver, and all the posts surrounding the courtyard had silver bands.
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The bases for the posts were bronze and the fastening hooks and bands on the posts were of silver. The posts of the Courtyard were both capped and banded with silver.
18 The screen for the gate into the courtyard was made with blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine twisted linen, decorated with needlework. It was thirty feet long and, along the width of it, seven and a half feet high, corresponding to the courtyard's drapes.
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The screen at the door of the Courtyard was embroidered in blue, purple, and scarlet fabric with fine twisted linen. It was thirty feet long and seven and a half feet high, matching the hangings of the Courtyard.
19 It had four posts, their four copper bases, their silver hooks, and their tops and bands covered with silver.
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There were four posts with bases of bronze and fastening hooks of silver; they were capped and banded in silver
20 All the tent pegs for the dwelling and for the courtyard all around were made of copper.
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. All the pegs for The Dwelling and the Courtyard were made of bronze.
21 These are the accounts of the dwelling, the covenant dwelling, that were recorded at Moses' instructions. They are the work of the Levites, under the direction of Ithamar, Aaron the priest's son.
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This is an inventory of The Dwelling that housed The Testimony drawn up by order of Moses for the work of the Levites under Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
22 Bezalel, Uri's son and Hur's grandson from the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded Moses to make.
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Bezalel, the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that God had commanded Moses.
23 Working with Bezalel was Oholiab, Ahisamach's son from the tribe of Dan, who was a gem cutter, a designer, and a needleworker in blue, purple, and deep red yarns and in fine linen.
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Working with Bezalel was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an artisan, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet fabrics and fine linen.
24 The total amount of the gold that was used for construction of the whole sanctuary, gold from the uplifted offerings, was twenty-nine kikkars and seven hundred thirty shekels in weight, measured by the sanctuary shekel.
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Gold. The total amount of gold used in construction of the Sanctuary, all of it contributed freely, weighed out at 1,900 pounds according to the Sanctuary standard.
25 The silver from the community census totaled one hundred kikkars and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels in weight, measured by the sanctuary shekel.
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Silver. The silver from those in the community who were registered in the census came to 6,437 pounds according to the Sanctuary standard
26 They gave a beqa per person (that is, half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel) for everyone who was counted in the census, 20 years old and above, 603,550 men.
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- that amounted to a beka, or half-shekel, for every registered person aged twenty and over, a total of 603,550 men.
27 One hundred kikkars of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and the bases for the veil, one hundred bases from one hundred kikkars of silver, one kikkar for every base.
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They used the three and one-quarter tons of silver to cast the bases for the Sanctuary and for the hangings, one hundred bases at sixty-four pounds each.
28 He used one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels of silver to make the hooks for the posts, cover their tops, and make bands for them.
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They used the remaining thirty-seven pounds to make the connecting hooks on the posts, and the caps and bands for the posts.
29 The amount of copper from the uplifted offering was seventy kikkars and two thousand four hundred shekels in weight.
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Bronze. The bronze that was brought in weighed 4,522 pounds.
30 He used it to make the bases for the meeting tent's entrance, the copper altar, its copper grate, and all the altar's equipment,
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It was used to make the door of the Tent of Meeting, the Bronze Altar with its bronze grating, all the utensils of the Altar,
31 the bases all around the courtyard, and the bases for the courtyard's gate, all the dwelling's tent pegs, and all the tent pegs used around the courtyard.
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the bases around the Courtyard, the bases for the gate of the Courtyard, and all the pegs for The Dwelling and the Courtyard.
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