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1And he maketh the altar of burnt-offering of shittim wood, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth (square), and three cubits its height;

1The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,

2and he maketh its horns on its four corners; its horns have been of the same; and he overlayeth it with brass;

2And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;

3and he maketh all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the sprinkling-pans, the forks, and the fire-pans; all its vessels he hath made of brass.

3And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass

4And he maketh for the altar a brazen grate of net-work, under its border beneath, unto its midst;

4And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;

5and he casteth four rings for the four ends of the brazen grate--places for bars;

5And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods.

6and he maketh the staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with brass;

6The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.

7and he bringeth in the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with them; hollow <FI>with<Fi> boards he made it.

7He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.

8And he maketh the laver of brass, and its base of brass, with the looking-glasses of the women assembling, who have assembled at the opening of the tent of meeting.

8And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

9And he maketh the court; at the south side southward, the hangings of the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit,

9To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:

10their pillars <FI>are<Fi> twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets <FI>are<Fi> silver;

10Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

11and at the north side, a hundred by the cubit, their pillars <FI>are<Fi> twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets <FI>are<Fi> silver;

11And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.

12and at the west side <FI>are<Fi> hangings, fifty by the cubit; their pillars <FI>are<Fi> ten, and their sockets ten; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets <FI>are<Fi> silver;

12And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.

13and at the east side eastward fifty cubits.

13And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long.

14The hangings on the side <FI>are<Fi> fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three,

14The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;

15and at the second side at the gate of the court, on this and on that, <FI>are<Fi> hangings, fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three;

15And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases.

16all the hangings of the court round about <FI>are<Fi> of twined linen,

16All the hangings were of the best linen.

17and the sockets for the pillars of brass, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets of silver, and the overlaying of their tops of silver, and all the pillars of the court are filleted with silver.

17And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.

18And the covering of the gate of the court <FI>is<Fi> the work of an embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen; and twenty cubits <FI>is<Fi> the length, and the height with the breadth five cubits, over-against the hangings of the court;

18And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides.

19and their pillars <FI>are<Fi> four, and their sockets of brass four, their pegs <FI>are<Fi> of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their fillets <FI>are<Fi> of silver;

19There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

20and all the pins for the tabernacle, and for the court round about, <FI>are<Fi> of brass.

20All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

21These are the numberings of the tabernacle (the tabernacle of testimony), which hath been numbered by the command of Moses, the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

21This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

22And Bezaleel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, hath made all that Jehovah commanded Moses;

22Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

23and with him <FI>is<Fi> Aholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and designer, and embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in linen.

23And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; a designer and a trained workman, expert in needlework of blue and purple and red and the best linen.

24All the gold which is prepared for the work in all the work of the sanctuary (and it is the gold of the wave-offering) <FI>is<Fi> twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

24The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

25And the silver of those numbered of the company <FI>is<Fi> a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary;

25And the silver given by those who were numbered of the people was a hundred talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

26a bekah for a poll (half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary,) for every one who is passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, for six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

26A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

27And a hundred talents of silver are to cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; a hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket;

27Of this silver, a hundred talents was used for making the bases of the pillars of the holy place and of the veil; a talent for every base.

28and the thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy he hath made pegs for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and filleted them.

28And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.

29And the brass of the wave-offering <FI>is<Fi> seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels;

29The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels;

30and he maketh with it the sockets of the opening of the tent of meeting, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate which it hath, and all the vessels of the altar,

30From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar,

31and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

31And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.