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1 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.
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And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
2 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.
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And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
3 He made from bronze all the utensils for the Altar: the buckets for removing the ashes, shovels, basins, forks, and fire pans.
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And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
4 He made a grate of bronze mesh under the ledge halfway up the Altar.
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And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
5 He cast four rings at each of the four corners of the bronze grating to hold the poles.
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And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
6 He made the poles of acacia wood and covered them with a veneer of bronze.
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And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
7 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.
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And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
8 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.
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And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
9 And he made the Courtyard. On the south side the hangings for the Courtyard, woven from fine twisted linen, were 150 feet long,
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And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
10 with their twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver.
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Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11 The north side was exactly the same.
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And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 The west end of the Courtyard had seventy-five feet of hangings with ten posts and bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver.
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And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
13 Across the seventy-five feet at the front, or east end,
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And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
14 were twenty-two and a half feet of hangings, with their three posts and bases on one side
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The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 and the same for the other side.
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And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 All the hangings around the Courtyard were of fine twisted linen.
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All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
17 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.
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And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
18 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.
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And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
19 There were four posts with bases of bronze and fastening hooks of silver; they were capped and banded in silver
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And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
20 . All the pegs for The Dwelling and the Courtyard were made of bronze.
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And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
21 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.
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This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
22 Bezalel, the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that God had commanded Moses.
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And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
23 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.
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And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
24 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.
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All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
25 Silver. The silver from those in the community who were registered in the census came to 6,437 pounds according to the Sanctuary standard
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And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
26 - that amounted to a beka, or half-shekel, for every registered person aged twenty and over, a total of 603,550 men.
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A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
27 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.
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And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
28 They used the remaining thirty-seven pounds to make the connecting hooks on the posts, and the caps and bands for the posts.
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And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
29 Bronze. The bronze that was brought in weighed 4,522 pounds.
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And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
30 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,
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And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
31 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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And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
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