Exodus 38

¹“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

²Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

¹³These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:

¹⁴The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

¹He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

¹⁰We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

⁶Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

¹⁶The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

¹²Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

²Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

³Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

¹³or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

⁴Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

³So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

⁶olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

²For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

²⁴but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

¹⁵“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.

³⁷and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

²²Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

⁷And place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

⁵The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.

⁵He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

⁶This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

¹“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

⁹You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

¹⁰with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

⁷In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.

³³And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

⁸Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

³⁶Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

¹⁴Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,

¹⁴He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.

⁹The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

¹⁹All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.

²³I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

¹⁹He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

²¹In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

²²And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

¹¹The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.

⁴⁴Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

⁵³But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

⁶So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the Lord and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”

¹¹On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,

¹⁵On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

⁵⁰Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.

³⁰Then Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

¹Then the Lord said to Moses,

²“See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

⁷But the Lord told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.

²⁰and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

⁶Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

³⁴And the Lord has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

⁶Moreover, I have selected Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, as his assistant. I have also given skill to all the craftsmen, that they may fashion all that I have commanded you:

⁴⁷you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.

²⁵Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

¹⁶You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

²“Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

²²So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the Lord.

³if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.

¹²“When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the Lord a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.

⁴⁶And all those counted totaled 603,550.

¹³Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the Lord.

³⁷The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

¹⁵In making the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.

¹⁶Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord to make atonement for your lives.”

¹⁹with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

³²Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.

²¹and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

²⁵So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

¹⁷All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

³⁷Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold, use hooks of gold, and cast five bronze bases for them.

¹⁷All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

¹⁰with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.