1 ARST Bezalel made the altar for burning sacrifices from acacia wood. It was square, two and a half meters long on each side, and one and a half meters tall. BSB BSB: Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
2 ARST He made a{ projection that looks like a} horn on each of the top corners from the same block of wood as the altar. He covered the whole altar with bronze. BSB BSB: He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.
3 ARST He made all the implements for the altar: the pans, shovels, basins, forks for working with cooking meat, and buckets for carrying hot coals. He made all of these implements from bronze. BSB BSB: He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.
4 ARST He made a bronze lattice grating{ to hold the wood and burning coals}. He put the grating under the rim{ that was around the altar}. He made it so that it was inside the altar, halfway down. BSB BSB: He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
5 ARST He molded four bronze rings in which to put the poles for the lattice and fastened them to its four corners. BSB BSB: At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.
6 ARST He made the poles from acacia wood and covered them with bronze. BSB BSB: And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
7 ARST He put the poles for carrying the altar through the rings on each side of the altar. He made the altar from boards; it was hollow in the middle. BSB BSB: Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.
8 ARST He made the bronze washbasin and the bronze base for it. The bronze was from the mirrors that belonged to the women who worked at the entrance of the sacred tent. BSB BSB: Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
9 ARST He made a courtyard{ around the sacred tent}. On the south side, he hung a fine linen curtain 50 meters long BSB BSB: Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
10 ARST from 20{ bronze} posts that had 20 bronze bases for the posts and hooks on them and silver connectors. BSB BSB: with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
11 ARST For the north side{ of the courtyard}, he hung 50 meters of curtains from 20 posts, each with their bronze bases, hooks, and silver connectors. BSB BSB: The north side was also a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
12 ARST For the west side{ of the courtyard}, he hung 25 meters of curtains from ten posts, each with their bases, hooks, and silver connectors. BSB BSB: The west side was fifty cubits long and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
13 ARST The east side also was 25 meters wide. BSB BSB: And the east side, toward the sunrise, was also fifty cubits long.
14 ARST { He made} a curtain seven and a half meters long for one side{ of the entrance}, with three posts and bases. BSB BSB: The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
15 ARST On the other side, opposite from the entrance to the courtyard,{ he made} a curtain seven and a half meters long, also with three posts and bases. BSB BSB: And the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.
16 ARST There were fine linen curtains all around the courtyard. BSB BSB: All the curtains around the courtyard were made of finely spun linen.
17 ARST All the posts’ bases were bronze. They covered the tops with silver. The pillars’ hooks and loops were silver. The ends of the courtyard’ s pillars had a rounded silver finish. BSB BSB: The bases for the posts were bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.
18 ARST For the entrance of the courtyard,{ they made} a curtain from finely twined linen, and a skilled weaver embroidered it with blue, purple, and red yarn. The curtain was ten meters long and two and a half meters high, just like the other curtains around the courtyard. BSB BSB: The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,
19 ARST It had four posts, each with a bronze base. They covered the tops of the posts and their hooks with silver. The loops were silver. BSB BSB: with four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, as well as the bands and the plating of their tops.
20 ARST They made all the tent pegs to hold the sacred tent and the curtains around the courtyard of bronze. BSB BSB: All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.
21 ARST This is a list of all the materials that the craftsmen used to make the sacred tent where the Ten Commandments were. Moses instructed some men from the tribe of Levi to write the list. Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest, supervised the men who wrote it. BSB BSB: This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
22 ARST Bezalel of the tribe of Judah, son of Uri and grandson of Hur made all the things that Yahweh had commanded Moses to make. BSB BSB: Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded Moses.
23 ARST Oholiab son of Ahisamak, from the tribe of Dan worked with Bezealel. Oholiab was a skilled engraver who made artistic things. He embroidered designs using blue, purple, and red woolen yarn, and linen. BSB BSB: With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.
24 ARST All the gold that they used to make the sacred tent weighed 965 kilograms. They used the official standard when they weighed the gold that the people dedicated to Yahweh. BSB BSB: All the gold from the wave offering used for the work on the sanctuary totaled 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
25 ARST All the silver that the people{ contributed when the leaders took the} census weighed 3, 420 kilograms. They also used the official standard when they weighed the silver. BSB BSB: The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—
26 ARST They had counted all the men who were at least twenty years old, and each man had paid a silver coin that weighed about five grams, according to the official standard. That was a total of 603, 550 men. BSB BSB: a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
27 ARST It took 3, 400 kilograms of silver to make the bases under the posts that supported the sacred tent’ s curtains. They used 34 kilograms for each of the 100 bases. BSB BSB: The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.
28 ARST With the remaining the 20 kilograms of silver, they made the hooks for the posts, covered the tops of the posts, and made rounded corners. BSB BSB: With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
29 ARST The people had contributed about 2, 400 kilograms of bronze. BSB BSB: The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.
30 ARST With the bronze he made the bases to support the posts at the entrance of the sacred tent, the altar{ for burning sacrifices} with its grate and its tools, BSB BSB: He used it to make the bases for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar and its bronze grating, all the utensils for the altar,
31 ARST the bases{ for the posts that supported the curtains} that surrounded the courtyard, the bases for the entrance to the courtyard, and the pegs for the sacred tent and for the curtains around the courtyard. BSB BSB: the bases for the surrounding courtyard and its gate, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and its surrounding courtyard.
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