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Exodus 38

1He made also the Altar of Holocaust of the wood setim, five cubits four square, and three in height:

2the horns whereof did proceed from the corners, and he covered it with plates of brass.

3And for the uses thereof he prepared of brass diverse vessels, cauldrons, tongs, flesh-hooks, pot-hooks, and fire pans.

4And the grate thereof in manner of a net he made of brass, and under it in the midst of the altar an hearth,

5casting four rings at as many tops of the net, to put in bars to carry it:

6the which themselves also he made of the wood setim, and covered them with plates of brass:

7and he drew them through the rings, that stood out in the sides of the altar. And the altar itself was not massy, but hollow of boards, and within empty.

8He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of women's glasses, that watched in the door of the tabernacle.

9He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings of twisted silk, of an hundred cubits,

10twenty pillars of brass with their feet, the heads of the pillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver.

11In like manner at the north side the hangings, pillars, and feet & the heads of the pillars were of the same measure, and work & metal.

12But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings of fifty cubits, ten brazen pillars with their feet, and the heads of the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver.

13Moreover against the east he prepared hangings of fifty cubits:

14of the which, one side contained fifteen cubits of three pillars, with their feet:

15& on the other side (because between both he made the entry of the tabernacle) there were hangings equally of fifteen cubits, & three pillars, & feet as many.

16All the hangings of the court were woven of twisted silk.

17The feet of the pillars were of brass, & their heads with all their gravings of silver: but the pillars also of the court themselves he plated with silver.

18And in the entry thereof he made with embroidered work a hanging of hyacinth, purple, scarlet, and twisted silk, that had twenty cubits in length, but the height was five cubits, according to the measure which all the hangings of the court had.

19And the pillars in the entry were four with feet of brass, and their heads and gravings of silver.

20The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round about he made of brass.

21These are the instruments of the tabernacle of testimony, which were numbered according to the precept of Moyses, in the ceremonies of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the Priest:

22which Beseleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda had accomplished, as our Lord commanded by Moyses,

23having joined to himself for his companion Ooliab the son of Achisamech of the tribe of Dan: who was himself also an egregious artificer in wood, and a tapester, and embroiderer of hyacinth, purple, scarlet, and silk.

24All the gold that was spent in the work of the Sanctuary, and that was offered in donaries, was nine and twenty talents, and seven hundred thirty sicles according to the measure of the Sanctuary.

25And it was offered of them that passed to the number, from twenty years and upward, of six hundred three thousand, & five hundred fifty able men to bear arms.

26There were moreover an hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the feet of the Sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.

27An hundred feet were made of an hundred talents, one talent being accounted for every foot.

28And of the thousand seven hundred, and seventy five he made the heads of the pillars, which themselves he also plated with silver.

29Of brass also there were offered seventy two thousand talents, and four hundred sicles besides,

30of the which were cast the feet in the entry of the tabernacle of testimony, and the altar of brass with the grate thereof, and all the vessels, that pertain to the use thereof,

31and the feet of the court as well in the circuit as in the entry thereof, and the pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about.