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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/38.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Making the Altar of Burnt Offering</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters">a</a></sup></span> was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow, with boards.</p> <p class="heading">Making the Bronze Basin</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.</p> <p class="heading">Making the Court</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And for the north side there were hangings of a hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars, and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And for the front to the east, fifty cubits. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And so for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. The overlaying of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And their pillars were four in number. Their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.</p> <p class="heading">Materials for the Tabernacle</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded Moses; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams">b</a></sup></span> by the shekel of the sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>a beka<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams">c</a></sup></span> a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>with it he made the bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>the bases around the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the court.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">cubit</i> was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">talent</i> was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms; a <i class="catch-word-plural">shekel</i> was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> A <i class="catch-word">beka</i> was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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