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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 38 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/38.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/38-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Exodus 38</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/37.htm" title="Exodus 37">◄</a> Exodus 38 <a href="../exodus/39.htm" title="Exodus 39">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Altar for Offering Sacrifices</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 27:1-8">Exodus 27.1-8</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_1"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.1" class="v1_38_1">1</span>Bezalel built an altar of acacia wood for offering sacrifices. It was 2.25 meters square and 1.34 meters high </span><span class="v1_38_2"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.2" class="v1_38_2">2</span>with each of its four corners sticking up like the horn of a bull, and it was completely covered with bronze. </span><span class="v1_38_3"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.3" class="v1_38_3">3</span>The equipment for the altar was also made of bronze—the pans for the hot ashes, the shovels, the bowls, the meat forks, and the fire pans. </span><span class="v1_38_4"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.4" class="v1_38_4">4</span>About halfway up the altar he built a ledge around it and covered the bottom half of the altar with a decorative bronze grating. </span><span class="v1_38_5"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.5" class="v1_38_5">5</span>Then he attached a bronze ring beneath the ledge at the four corners to put the poles through. </span><span class="v1_38_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.6" class="v1_38_6">6</span>He covered two acacia wood poles with bronze and </span><span class="v1_38_7"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.7" class="v1_38_7">7</span>put them through the rings for carrying the altar, which was shaped like an open box.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Large Bronze Bowl</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 30:18-21">Exodus 30.18-21</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.8" class="v1_38_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.38.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Bezalel made a large bowl and a stand out of bronze from the mirrors of the women who helped at the entrance to the sacred tent.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Courtyard around the Sacred Tent</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 27:9-19">Exodus 27.9-19</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.9-Exod.38.17" class="v1_38_9">9-17</span>Around the sacred tent Bezalel built a courtyard 44 meters long on the south and north and 22 meters wide on the east and west. He used 20 bronze posts on bronze stands for the south and north and 10 for the west. Then he hung a curtain of fine linen on the posts along each of these three sides by using silver hooks and rods. He placed three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hung a curtain 6.67 meters wide on each set of posts.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.18-Exod.38.19" class="v1_38_18">18-19</span>For the entrance to the courtyard, Bezalel made a curtain nine meters long, which he hung on four bronze posts that were set on bronze stands. This curtain was 2.25 meters high, the same height as the one for the rest of the courtyard, and was made of fine linen embroidered and woven with blue, purple, and red wool. He hung the curtain on the four posts, using silver hooks and rods. </span><span class="v1_38_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.20" class="v1_38_20">20</span>The pegs for the tent and for the curtain around the tent were made of bronze.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Sacred Tent</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.21-Exod.38.23" class="v1_38_21">21-23</span>Bezalel had worked closely with Oholiab,<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.38.21-Exod.38.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> who was an expert at designing and engraving, and at embroidering blue, purple, and red wool. The two of them completed the work that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had commanded to be done.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_21">Moses put Aaron's son Ithamar in charge of the Levites who kept record of the metals used for the sacred tent. </span><span class="v1_38_24"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.24" class="v1_38_24">24</span>According to the official weights, the amount of gold given was a ton, </span><span class="v1_38_25"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.25" class="v1_38_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.38.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and the silver that was collected when the people were counted<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.38.25!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> came to 3.4 tons. </span><span class="v1_38_26"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.26" class="v1_38_26">26</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.38.26!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Everyone who was counted paid the required amount, and there was a total of 603,550 men who were 20 years old or older.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_27"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.27" class="v1_38_27">27</span>Thirty-four kilograms of the silver were used to make each of the 100 stands for the sacred tent and the curtain. </span><span class="v1_38_28"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.28" class="v1_38_28">28</span>The remaining 30 kilograms of silver were used for the hooks and rods and for covering the tops of the posts.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_38_29"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.29" class="v1_38_29">29</span>Two thousand four hundred and twenty-five kilograms of bronze were given. </span><span class="v1_38_30"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.30" class="v1_38_30">30</span>And it was used to make the stands for the entrance to the tent, the altar and its grating, the equipment for the altar, </span><span class="v1_38_31"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.38.31" class="v1_38_31">31</span>the stands for the posts that surrounded the courtyard, including those at the entrance to the courtyard, and the pegs for the tent and the courtyard.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.21-23 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Bezalel … Oholiab: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur of the Judah tribe had worked closely with Oholiab son of Ahisamach from the tribe of Dan.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">counted: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 30.11-16; Numbers 1.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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