[1] The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar,
five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, [2] And he put
horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass; [3]
And 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 [4] And he made a network of brass for the altar, under
the frame round it, stretching half-way up; [5] And four rings for the four
angles of this network, to take the rods. [6] The rods he made of hard wood
plated with brass. [7] He 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. [8] And 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. [9] To make the open space, he put
hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long: [10]
Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of
the pillars and their bands were of silver. [11] And for the north side.
hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases,
with silver hooks and bands. [12] And on the west side, hangings fifty
cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands. [13] And on
the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long. [14] The hangings on
one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with
their three bases; [15] And 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. [16] All the hangings were of the best
linen. [17] And 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. [18] And 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. [19] There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the
hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with
silver. [20] All the nails used for the House and the open space round it
were of brass. [21] This 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.
[22] Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made
everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses. [23] And 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. [24] The 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. [25] And 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. [26] A 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. [27] Of
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. [28] And 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. [29] The brass which was given was seventy talents, two
thousand four hundred shekels; [30] From 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, [31] And the bases for the open space
all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the
open space.
