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the poles of acacia wood, and he covered them with gold.

      ²⁹He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure sweet-smelling incense like a skilled perfume maker.

Making the altar for entirely burned offerings

      Exodus 38He made the altar for entirely burned offerings out of acacia wood. The altar was square, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide. It was four and a half feet high. ²He made horns for it, one horn on each of its four corners. Its horns were attached to the altar, and he covered it with copper. ³He made all the altar's equipment: the pails, the shovels, the bowls, the meat forks, and the trays. He made all its equipment out of copper. ⁴He made a grate for the altar of copper mesh underneath its bottom edge and extending halfway up to the middle of the altar. ⁵He made four rings for each of the four corners of the copper grate to house the poles. ⁶He made the poles out of acacia wood, and he covered them with copper. ⁷He put the poles through the rings so that the poles were on the two sides of the altar when it was carried. He made the altar with planks but hollow inside.

      ⁸He made the copper washbasin with its copper stand from the copper mirrors among the ranks of women assigned to the meeting tent's entrance.

      Constructing the dwelling's plaza

      ⁹He also set up the courtyard. The courtyard's south side had drapes of fine twisted linen stretching one hundred fifty feet ¹⁰with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts. ¹¹Likewise the north side stretched one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts. ¹²On the west side the drapes stretched seventy-five feet, with their ten posts, their ten bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts. ¹³The front side facing east was seventy-five feet. ¹⁴There were twenty-two and a half feet of drapes on one side with three posts and three bases for them. ¹⁵Likewise, there were twenty-two and a half feet of drapes on the other side of the plaza's gate with three posts and three bases for them. ¹⁶All the drapes around the courtyard were made of fine twisted linen. ¹⁷The bases for the posts were made of copper, but the hooks for the posts and their bands were made of silver. The tops of the posts were covered with silver, and all the posts surrounding the courtyard had silver bands. ¹⁸The screen for the gate into the courtyard was made with blue, purple, and deep red yarns and fine twisted linen, decorated with needlework. It was thirty feet long and, along the width of it, seven and a half feet high, corresponding to the courtyard's drapes. ¹⁹It had four posts, their four copper bases, their silver hooks, and their tops and bands covered with silver. ²⁰All the tent pegs for the dwelling and for the courtyard all around were made of copper.

      A listing of materials used

      ²¹These are the accounts of the dwelling, the covenant dwelling, that were recorded at Moses' instructions. They are the work of the Levites, under the direction of Ithamar, Aaron the priest's son. ²²Bezalel, Uri's son and Hur's grandson from the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded Moses to make. ²³Working with Bezalel was Oholiab, Ahisamach's son from the tribe of Dan, who was a gem cutter, a designer, and a needleworker in blue, purple, and deep red yarns and in fine linen.

      ²⁴The total amount of the gold that was used for construction of the whole sanctuary, gold from the uplifted offerings, was twenty-nine kikkars and seven hundred thirty shekels in weight, measured by the sanctuary shekel. ²⁵The silver from the community census totaled one hundred kikkars and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels in weight, measured by the sanctuary shekel. ²⁶They gave a beqa per person (that is, half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel) for everyone who was counted in the census, 20 years old and above, 603,550 men. ²⁷One hundred kikkars of silver were used to cast the bases for the sanctuary and the bases for the veil, one hundred bases from one hundred kikkars of silver, one kikkar for every base. ²⁸He used one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels of silver^d to make the hooks for the posts, cover their tops, and make bands for them. ²⁹The amount of copper from the uplifted offering was seventy kikkars and two thousand four hundred shekels in weight. ³⁰He used it to make the bases for the meeting tent's entrance, the copper altar, its copper grate, and all the altar's equipment, ³¹the bases all around the courtyard, and the bases for the courtyard's gate, all the dwelling's tent pegs, and all the tent pegs used around the courtyard.

Making the priests' clothing

      Exodus 39They used the blue, purple, and deep red yarns to make the woven clothing for those ministering as priests in the sanctuary. They made the holy clothes for Aaron as the LORD had commanded Moses.

      ²They made the vest^e of gold, of blue, purple, and deep red yarns, and of fine twisted linen. ³They beat out thin sheets of gold and cut them into threads to work into designs among the blue, purple, and deep red yarns and the fine linen. ⁴They made shoulder pieces for it attached to its two edges so that they could be joined together. ⁵The vest's belt was attached to it and made in the same way of gold, of blue, purple, and deep red yarns, and of fine twisted linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

      ⁶They prepared the gemstones by mounting them in gold settings and engraving on them the names of Israel's sons, like an official seal is engraved. ⁷The stones were attached to the vest's shoulder pieces as reminder stones for the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

      ⁸They made the embroidered chest pendant in the style of the vest, using gold, blue, purple, and deep red yarns, and fine twisted linen. ⁹They made the chest pendant square and doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled. ¹⁰They set in it four rows of gemstones. The first row was a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald stones. ¹¹The second row was a turquoise, a sapphire, and a moonstone. ¹²The third row was a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst. ¹³The fourth row was a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. The settings around them were decorative gold. ¹⁴There were twelve stones with names corresponding to the names of Israel's sons. They were engraved like official seals, each with its name for the twelve tribes. ¹⁵They made chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, for the chest pendant. ¹⁶They made two gold settings and two gold rings. They attached the two rings to the two edges of the chest pendant. ¹⁷They attached the two gold cords to the two rings at the edges of the chest pendant. ¹⁸Then they fastened the two ends of the two cords to the two gold settings and attached them to the front of the vest's shoulder pieces. ¹⁹They made two gold rings, and they attached them to the two edges of the chest pendant, on its inside edge facing the vest. ²⁰They made two gold rings and fastened them on the front of the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the vest, at its seam just above the vest's belt. ²¹The chest pendant was held in place by a blue cord binding its rings to the vest's rings so that the chest pendant rested on the vest's belt and didn't come loose from the vest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

      ²²They also made the vest's robe, woven completely in blue. ²³The opening of the robe in the middle of it was reinforced with a strong border so that it didn't tear. ²⁴On the robe's lower hem, they added pomegranates made of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and of fine twisted linen. ²⁵They also made pure gold bells and sewed the bells between the pomegranates, all around the robe's lower hem, ²⁶with a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe that is used for ministering as a priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

      ²⁷They also made the tunics woven out of fine linen for Aaron and his sons, ²⁸the turban of fine linen, the decorated turbans of fine linen, the linen undergarments of fine twisted linen, ²⁹the sashes of fine twisted linen, and of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, decorated with needlework, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

      ³⁰They made the flower ornament for the holy crown out of pure gold. Like the engraving