Exodus 38
Israel builds tabernacle (continued)
Then Bezalel made the altar for roasted offerings. It was made out of acacia wood and measured 7.5’ by 7.5’ and was 4.5’ tall. He made it with a horn on each corner, and the horns were all one piece with the rest of the altar. He overlaid the entire altar with bronze. He made all its accessories out of bronze including the pails, shovels, basins, meat hooks, and firepans. He made a bronze grate under its edge that reached halfway up the side of the altar. He cast 4 rings and attached them to the 4 corners of the bronze grate as holders for the poles. He made the poles out of bronze-plated acacia wood and slid them into the rings so it could be carried. He used boards to hallow out the inside of the altar.
He made the basin and its base out of bronze mirrors that were donated by the women who served at the meeting room’s entrance.
Then he made the courtyard.
The south side of the courtyard had 150 feet of curtains that were made out of fine twisted linen. It had 20 pillars set on 20 bases made out of bronze. The pillars had hooks and rings made out of silver.
The north side was the same as the south side.
The west side had 75 feet of curtains with 10 pillars set on 10 bases with silver hooks and rings.
The east side was 75 feet long with a gate in the middle. Each side of the gate had 22.5 feet of curtains with 3 pillars and their bases.
All the courtyard’s curtains were made of fine twisted linen. All the bases for the pillars were bronze. All the pillars’ hooks and rings were silver. The pillars were furnished with silver bands, and the tops of the pillars were plated with silver. The gate’s screen was made by a professional weaver out of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet material. The gate measured 30 feet wide and 7.5 feet tall (the same height as the curtains that formed the courtyard). It had 4 pillars with silver-plated tops and 4 bases made of bronze along with silver hooks and bands. All of the pegs for God’s home and the courtyard were made of bronze.
Tabernacle’s construction completed
That was everything that was built to house the evidence. It included everything that Moses said they’d need for the Levites to serve through Ithamar (Aaron the priest’s son). Bezalel (Uri’s son and Hur’s grandson from the tribe of Judah) finished making everything that the Existing One ordered from Moses. Oholiab (Ahisamach’s son from the tribe of Dan) was an engraver, craftsman, and weaver who helped Bezalel.
All the gold used in the project (including the gold in the presentation offering) amounted to 2,192 pounds (according to the scale in the sanctuary). The silver was 7,543 pounds (according to the scale in the sanctuary), which comes out to about 5.5 grams for each person who was at least 20 years old (603,550 men). The silver was used for casting the 100 bases (for the sanctuary and the veil), and the pillars’ hooks, furnishings, and silver-plated tops. The bronze from the presentation offering weighed 5,308 pounds, and it was used to make the bases to the meeting room’s doorway, the bronze altar with its bronze grate, all the altar’s accessories, the bases all around the courtyard, the gate’s bases, the home’s pegs, and the courtyard’s pegs.