Exodus 38

AND he made the altar of burnt-offering of shittim-wood: five cubits was the length thereof: and five cubits the breadth thereof: (it was foursquare) and three cubits the height thereof.

And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it: the horns thereof were of the same, and he overlaid it with brass.

And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and the flesh-hooks, and the fire-pans, all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

And he made for the altar a brazen grate of net-work, under the compass thereof, beneath unto the midst thereof.

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

And he made the staves of shittim-wood, and overlaid them with brass.

And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.

And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the looking glasses Which as now they are sometimes made of polished steel, so anticntly were made of polished brass, as appears both from sacred and from profane writers. See Iob 37. 18. Plin. 33. 9. &c. of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation It seems to note a company of religious women who in a more peculiar manner devoted themselves to the service of God in or about his Tabernacle, by fasting, prayer, &c. See 1 Sam. 2. 22. and Luk. 2. 37. And whereas some object, that the Tabernacle was not yet built, it may be replied, either that this is to be understood of the tabernacle, spoken of Exod. 33. 7. which might serve for that purpose till this was built, or that here is a prolepsis or anticipation, and that he speaks not of what the women now did, but of what they did after the Tabernacle was built, which was before Moses writ these words..

And he made the court: on the south-side south-ward, the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen an hundred cubits.

Their pillars were twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty: the hooks Upon which they hanged the beasts to be sacrificed, as the Iews affirm. of the pillars, and their sillets were of silver.

And for the north-side, the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty: the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets of silver.

And for the west-side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten: the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets of silver.

And for the east-side eastward fifty cubits.

The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And for the other side of the court-gate on this hand, and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.

All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

And the sockets for the pillars were of brass, the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets of silver, and their overlaying of the chapiters of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filletted with silver.

And the hanging for the gate of the court was needle-work, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth The height relates to its standing or hanging upright, and the breadth relates to the hanging it self, and the height of the hanging was taken in the breadth. was five cubits answerable to the hangings of the court.

And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters, and their fillets of silver.

And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about were of brass.

This is the sum of the tabernacle This does not belong to the following account of Gold and Silver, but to the foregoing particulars of holy things relating to the Tabernacle, for these only were committed to the care of the Levites, as it here follows, but this Gold and Silver was put into other hands., even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites (i. e.) For those holy uses and services which the Levites administred., by the hand of Ithamar son to Aaron the priest.

And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the Tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.

And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

All the gold that was occupied for the work, in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents Every talent contained three thousand shekels See Gen. 23. 15. Exod. 30. 13. It is not said, that all this Gold and following Silver were used about the building of the Tabernacle, for the people brought much more than enough, Exod. 36. 5. And these remains, it is probable, were put into the sacred treasury to be used as occasion should require., and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

And the silver of them that were numbred of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary.

A Bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the sekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbred, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand, and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filletted them.

And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar.

And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court-gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.