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1 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.
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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.
2 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.
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He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
3 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.
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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.
4 He made a bronze grating and put it under the rim of the altar, so that it reached halfway up the altar.
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And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down.
5 He made four carrying rings and put them on the four corners.
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He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.
6 He made carrying poles of acacia wood, covered them with bronze,
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He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
7 and put them in the rings on each side of the altar. The altar was made of boards and was hollow.
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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.
8 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.
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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.
9 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,
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And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;
10 supported by twenty bronze posts in twenty bronze bases, with hooks and rods made of silver.
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their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11 The enclosure was the same on the north side.
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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.
12 On the west side there were curtains 25 yards long, with ten posts and ten bases and with hooks and rods made of silver.
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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.
13 On the east side, where the entrance was, the enclosure was also 25 yards wide.
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And for the front to the east, fifty cubits.
14 On each side of the entrance there were 7 1/2 yards of curtains, with three posts and three bases.
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The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases.
16 All the curtains around the enclosure were made of fine linen.
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All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
17 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.
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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.
18 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.
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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.
19 It was supported by four posts in four bronze bases. Their hooks, the covering of their tops, and their rods were made of silver.
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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.
20 All the pegs for the Tent and for the surrounding enclosure were made of bronze.
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And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.
21 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.
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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.
22 Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded.
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Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses;
23 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.
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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.
24 All the gold that had been dedicated to the Lord for the sacred Tent weighed 2,195 pounds, weighed according to the official standard.
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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.
25 The silver from the census of the community weighed 7,550 pounds, weighed according to the official standard.
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The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:
26 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.
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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 ,550 men.
27 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.
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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.
28 With the remaining 50 pounds of silver Bezalel made the rods, the hooks for the posts, and the covering for their tops.
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And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them.
29 The bronze which was dedicated to the Lord amounted to 5,310 pounds.
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The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels;
30 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,
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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,
31 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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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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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