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1 He made the altar for burnt offerings of acacia-wood, seven-and-a-half feet long and seven-and-a-half feet wide - it was square - and four-and-a-half feet high.
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The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,
2 He made horns for it on its four corners, the horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
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And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;
3 He made all the utensils for the altar -its pots, shovels, basins, meat-hooks and fire pans; all its utensils he made of bronze.
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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
4 He made for the altar a grate of bronze netting, under its rim, reaching halfway up the altar.
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And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;
5 He cast four rings for the four ends of the bronze grate to hold the poles.
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And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods.
6 He made the poles of acacia-wood and overlaid them with bronze.
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The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.
7 He put the carrying-poles into the rings on the sides of the altar; he made it of planks and hollow inside.
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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.
8 He made the basin of bronze with its base of bronze from the mirrors of the women serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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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.
9 He made the courtyard. On the south side, facing southward, the tapestries for the courtyard were made of finely woven linen, 150 feet long,
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To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:
10 supported on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets; the hooks on the posts and the attached rings for hanging were of silver.
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Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.
11 On the north side they were 150 feet long, hung on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets, with the hooks on the posts and their rings of silver.
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And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.
12 On the west side were tapestries seventy-five feet long, hung on ten posts in ten sockets, with the hooks on the posts and their rings of silver.
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And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.
13 On the east side were tapestries seventy-five feet long.
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And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long.
14 The tapestries for the one side [of the gateway] were twenty-two-and-a-half feet long, hung on three posts in three sockets;
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The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;
15 likewise for the other side -on either side [of the gate] were tapestries twenty-two-and-a-half feet long on three posts in three sockets.
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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 tapestries for the courtyard, all the way around, were of finely woven linen;
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All the hangings were of the best linen.
17 the sockets for the posts were of bronze; the hooks on the posts and their rings were of silver; the capitals of the posts were overlaid with silver; and all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.
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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.
18 The screen for the gateway to the courtyard was the work of a weaver in colors, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen. Its length was thirty feet and its height seven-and-a-half feet all the way along, like the tapestries of the courtyard.
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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.
19 It had four posts in four bronze sockets, with silver hooks, capitals overlaid with silver and silver fasteners.
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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.
20 The tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard around it were of bronze.
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All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.
21 These are the accounts of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, recorded, as Moshe ordered, by the L'vi'im under the direction of Itamar the son of Aharon, the cohen.
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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.
22 B'tzal'el the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Y'hudah, made everything that ADONAI ordered Moshe to make.
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Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
23 Assisting him was Oholi'av the son of Achisamakh, of the tribe of Dan, who was an engraver, a designer and a weaver in colors -in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and in fine linen.
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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.
24 All the gold used for the work in everything needed for the sanctuary, the gold of the offering, weighed 29 talents 730 shekels [1,930 pounds], using the sanctuary shekel.
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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.
25 The silver given by the community weighed 100 talents 1,775 shekels [6,650 pounds], using the sanctuary shekel.
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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.
26 This was a beka per person, that is, half a shekel [one-fifth of an ounce], using the sanctuary shekel, for everyone twenty years old or older counted in the census, 603,550 men.
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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.
27 The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the sockets for the sanctuary and the sockets for the curtain -one hundred sockets made from the hundred talents, one talent [sixty-six pounds] per socket.
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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.
28 The 1,775 shekels [fifty pounds] he used to make hooks for the posts, to overlay their capitals and to make fasteners for them.
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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.
29 The bronze in the offering came to 4,680 pounds.
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The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels;
30 He used it to make the sockets for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, its bronze grate, all the utensils for the altar,
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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,
31 the sockets for the courtyard around it, the sockets for the gateway to the courtyard, all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and all the tent pegs for the courtyard around it.
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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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