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38 焼き尽くすいけにえの祭壇も、アカシヤ材で作りました。上部は五キュビト(二・二メートル)四方の正方形、高さは三キュビトです。 四隅に、他の部分と切れ目なく続くよう、四本の角をつけました。祭壇には青銅を張り、 祭壇で使うつぼ、十能(灰をすくう道具)、鉢、肉刺し、火皿などの器具類も青銅で作りました。 次に、炉の半ばあたりに棧を張り、そこに青銅の格子を置きました。 環を四つ作り、格子の四隅の部分でかつぎ棒を通せるようにしました。 かつぎ棒はアカシヤ材で、青銅をかぶせてあります。 祭壇の側面につけた環に、その棒を通します。祭壇の側面は板で、中は空洞でした。

幕屋の入口で奉仕していた女たちが、青銅の鏡をささげたので、それを使って青銅の洗い鉢とその台を作りました。

次は庭です。南側は百キュビト(四十四メートル)で、細い上等の撚り糸を織って幕を作り、それを張り巡らしました。 10 幕を垂らす柱を二十本立てました。土台は青銅で、柱には銀のかぎと環をつけました。

11 北側にも百キュビトの幕を張り、青銅の柱二十本とその土台、銀のかぎと環があります。 12 西側は五十キュビトで、十本の柱と土台で幕を支えました。柱には、やはり銀のかぎと環がついています。 13 東側も五十キュビトです。 14-15 入口の両側には、幅十五キュビトの幕を垂らし、それぞれ三個の土台に立てた三本の柱で支えました。 16 庭の仕切りとして巡らした幕は、どれも細い上等の撚り糸で織ったものです。 17 柱はみな青銅の土台にはめ込み、かぎと環は銀です。柱の頭部には銀をかぶせ、幕を垂らす環は純銀でした。 18 庭の入口に垂らすカーテンは上質の亜麻布で作り、青、紫、緋色の撚り糸で美しい刺しゅうをしました。幕の幅は二十キュビト、高さは五キュビトで、庭の仕切りとした他の幕と同じ高さです。 19 幕は四本の柱と四個の青銅の土台、銀のかぎと環で支えました。柱の頭部も銀でした。 20 幕屋と庭を作るのに用いた釘は、すべて青銅です。

21 これが、契約の箱を納める幕屋(聖所)の建設工事の諸工程です。幕屋ができ上がり、ようやくレビ族が奉仕につけるようになりました。いっさいの工事は、モーセが立てた計画どおり行われ、祭司アロンの子イタマルが監督しました。 22 ユダ族のウリの子で、フルの孫に当たるベツァルエルが技術面での責任者となり、 23 ダン族のアヒサマクの子オホリアブが助手を務めました。彼も熟練した職人で、彫刻、設計、色とりどりの刺しゅうをするのに、すぐれた腕を発揮しました。

24 人々が奉納し、幕屋建設に使った金は約一千キログラムに達しました。 25-26 銀は三、四四〇キロ使われました。これは、人口調査の時に登録する二十歳以上の人から取り立てた、半シェケルの人頭税でまかなわれました。登録したのは、計六十万三、五五〇人です。 27 聖所の壁となるわく組みの土台と、垂れ幕を支える柱の土台には、一個につき三十四キログラム、計三、四〇〇キログラムの銀が必要でした。 28 残った銀は柱頭にかぶせたり、環やかぎを作るために使いました。 29 青銅は約二、四〇〇キログラム奉納され、 30-31 天幕の入口に立てる柱の土台、祭壇、格子、祭壇に付属する器具類、庭を仕切る引き幕を支える柱の土台、天幕と庭の釘などを作るのに使われました。

Making the Altar of Burnt Offering

38 (A)He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits[a] was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height. He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. 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. And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down. He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 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.

Making the Bronze Basin

(B)He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the (C)ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Making the Court

(D)And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits; 10 their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11 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. 12 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. 13 And for the front to the east, fifty cubits. 14 The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 15 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. 16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen. 17 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. 18 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. 19 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. 20 And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.

Materials for the Tabernacle

21 These are the records of the tabernacle, (E)the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites (F)under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 22 (G)Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses; 23 and with him was (H)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.

24 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,[b] by (I)the shekel of the sanctuary. 25 The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: 26 a (J)beka[c] 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 (K)603,550 men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the (L)bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base. 28 And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them. 29 The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels; 30 with it he made the (M)bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, (N)the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar, 31 the (O)bases around the court, and the (P)bases of the gate of the court, all the (Q)pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the court.

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 38:1 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  2. Exodus 38:24 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
  3. Exodus 38:26 A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams