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1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height.
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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 on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
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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 And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze.
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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 And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down.
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He made a grate of bronze mesh under the ledge halfway up the Altar.
5 He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for 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 of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
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He made the poles of acacia wood and covered them with a veneer of bronze.
7 And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow, with boards.
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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 basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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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 And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;
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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 their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
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with their twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver.
11 And for the north side there were hangings of a hundred cubits, their twenty pillars, their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
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The north side was exactly the same.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars, and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
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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 And for the front to the east, fifty cubits.
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Across the seventy-five feet at the front, or east end,
14 The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases.
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were twenty-two and a half feet of hangings, with their three posts and bases on one side
15 And so for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.
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and the same for the other side.
16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
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All the hangings around the Courtyard were of fine twisted linen.
17 And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. The overlaying of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
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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 And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court.
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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 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.
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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 And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.
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. All the pegs for The Dwelling and the Courtyard were made 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.
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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 the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses;
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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 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.
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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 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.
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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 those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:
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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 a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 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 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a 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 And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets 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 bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels;
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Bronze. The bronze that was brought in weighed 4,522 pounds.
30 with it he made the bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar,
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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 around the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the court.
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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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