Exodus Chapter 38

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Exodus, chapter thirty eight. Bezilel made the altar for burnt
offerings out of akasha wood. He made it square seven
and a half feet long by seven and a half
feet wide, and four and a half feet high. He
constructed it with horns on each of the four corners
so that the top formed one piece, and overlaid it
with bronze. He fashioned all the tools and accessories needed

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for the altar out of bronze, the buckets and shovels
for the ashes, basins, forks, and fire pans. He made
a grate out of bronze and attached it beneath the
ledge of the altar. Halfway up from the base. He
cast four bronze rings and attached them at the four
corners of the bronze grating. In order to hold the poles,
he made poles out of a kasha wood and overlaid

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them with bronze. He then slid the poles through the
rings on both sides of the altar so that it
could be carried. He made the altar out of wooden
planks and made it hollow so that it would be
easier to move. Bezilel made the bronze basin and its
stand from the mirrors donated by the women who served
at the entrance of the congregate tent. Bezelel then made

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the fabric panels at of finely woven linen to enclose
the courtyard in front of the congregation tent. On the
south side, he hung a series of panels for one
hundred and fifty feet on twenty bronze posts set securely
into twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands used to
attach the panels to the posts were made out of silver.
On the north side, he hung a series of panels

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for one hundred and fifty feet on twenty bronze posts
set securely into twenty bases. The hooks and the bands
used to attach them to the posts were made out
of silver. On the west end, he hung panels for
seventy five feet on ten bronze posts set securely into
ten bronze bases. The hooks and bands used to attach
them to the posts were made out of silver. For

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the front, which faced the east, he hung panels for
seventy five feet. On both sides of the entrance, he
hung panels that were twenty two and a half feet
wide on three posts set into three bases. All the
fabric panels enclosing the courtyard were made of finely linen.
The bases for the posts were all crafted out of bronze.
The hooks and bands on the posts were all made

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of silver, and the tops of each post were overlaid
with silver. All the rings which attached the panels to
the posts were made of silver. The fabric screen that
served as the entrance to the courtyard was made of
finely woven linen, richly embroidered with blue, purple and scarlet thread.
It was thirty feet long and seven and a half
feet high, the same height as the rest of the

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panels around the court. It was held up by four
bronze posts set into four bronze bases. The hooks and
the rings which attached the panels to the posts were
crafted out of silver, and the tops of each post
were overlaid with silver. Every peg which anchored the congregation
tent and the courtyard enclosure to the ground was made
out of bronze. Here's an account of everything used to

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construct the congregation tent, The Tent of Witness, recorded exactly
as Moses instructed the leevites under the supervision of Aaron's
son Ithamar, were in charge of keeping track of the materials. Bezilel,
son of Yuri, the son of her Judah Height, built
everything according to the instructions the Eternal One had given
Moses a holyab, the son of a Hissimac the Danite,

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assisted Bezilel. He was an expert engraver, designer, and embroiderer
with blue, purple and scarlet thread and fine linen. The
total weight of gold donated by the Israelites and used
in the construction of the congregation tent was about twenty
two hundred pounds according to the official standards used in
the sanctuary. The total weight of silver collected from the

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people to be used for the congregation tent was about
seventy six hundred pounds according to the official standards used
in the sanctuary, For every person counted in the census
six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men
aged twenty and older, this amounts to two tenths of
an ounce per person. According to the official standards used

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in the sanctuary, the one hundred bases used for the
sanctuary and for the veil were cast out of seventy
five hundred pounds of silver, that is seventy five pounds
per base. He used the remaining silver about forty five
pounds to make the hooks and bands for the posts
and to overlay the tops of each post. The Israelites
had also donated about fifty three hundred pounds of bronze.

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From it, he crafted the bases at the entrance to
the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating,
all the tools for the altar, the bases around the
courtyard and the entrance, and all the tent pegs for
the congregation tent and courtyard