Exodus 38
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Exodus 38:13-31

13For the east side, toward the sunrise, it was seventy-five feet wide,

14with hangings on one side of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases,

15and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

16All the hangings around the courtyard were of fine twisted linen.

17The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks of the posts and their bands were silver, their tops were overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands.

18The curtain for the gate of the courtyard was of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. It was thirty feet long, and like the hangings in the courtyard, it was seven and a half feet high,

19with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver.

20All the tent pegs of the tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were bronze.

21This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which was counted by the order of Moses, being the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

22Now Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded Moses;

23and with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an artisan, a designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

24All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary (namely, the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

25The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel,

26one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.

27The one hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the special curtain – one hundred bases for one hundred talents, one talent per base.

28From the remaining 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.

29The bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.

30With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar,

31the bases for the courtyard all around, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs of the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard all around.

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