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Bezalel made the altar for burning sacrifices from acacia wood. It was square, two and a half meters long on each side, and one and a half meters tall. 2 He made a {projection that looks like a} horn on each of the top corners from the same block of wood as the altar. He covered the whole altar with bronze. 3 He made all the implements for the altar: the pans, shovels, basins, forks for working with cooking meat, and buckets for carrying hot coals. He made all of these implements from bronze. 4 He made a bronze lattice grating {to hold the wood and burning coals}. He put the grating under the rim {that was around the altar}. He made it so that it was inside the altar, halfway down. 5 He molded four bronze rings in which to put the poles for the lattice and fastened them to its four corners. 6 He made the poles from acacia wood and covered them with bronze. 7 He put the poles for carrying the altar through the rings on each side of the altar. He made the altar from boards; it was hollow in the middle.8 He made the bronze washbasin and the bronze base for it. The bronze was from the mirrors that belonged to the women who worked at the entrance of the sacred tent.
9 He made a courtyard {around the sacred tent}. On the south side, he hung a fine linen curtain 50 meters long 10 from 20 {bronze} posts that had 20 bronze bases for the posts and hooks on them and silver connectors. 11 For the north side {of the courtyard}, he hung 50 meters of curtains from 20 posts, each with their bronze bases, hooks, and silver connectors. 12 For the west side {of the courtyard}, he hung 25 meters of curtains from ten posts, each with their bases, hooks, and silver connectors. 13 The east side also was 25 meters wide. 14 {He made} a curtain seven and a half meters long for one side {of the entrance}, with three posts and bases. 15 On the other side, opposite from the entrance to the courtyard, {he made} a curtain seven and a half meters long, also with three posts and bases. 16 There were fine linen curtains all around the courtyard. 17 All the posts’ bases were bronze. They covered the tops with silver. The pillars’ hooks and loops were silver. The ends of the courtyard’s pillars had a rounded silver finish. 18 For the entrance of the courtyard, {they made} a curtain from finely twined linen, and a skilled weaver embroidered it with blue, purple, and red yarn. The curtain was ten meters long and two and a half meters high, just like the other curtains around the courtyard. 19 It had four posts, each with a bronze base. They covered the tops of the posts and their hooks with silver. The loops were silver. 20 They made all the tent pegs to hold the sacred tent and the curtains around the courtyard of bronze.
21 This is a list of all the materials that the craftsmen used to make the sacred tent where the Ten Commandments were. Moses instructed some men from the tribe of Levi to write the list. Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest, supervised the men who wrote it . 22 Bezalel of the tribe of Judah, son of Uri and grandson of Hur made all the things that Yahweh had commanded Moses to make. 23 Oholiab son of Ahisamak, from the tribe of Dan worked with Bezealel. Oholiab was a skilled engraver who made artistic things. He embroidered designs using blue, purple, and red woolen yarn, and linen.
24 All the gold that they used to make the sacred tent weighed 965 kilograms. They used the official standard when they weighed the gold that the people dedicated to Yahweh. 25 All the silver that the people {contributed when the leaders took the} census weighed 3, 420 kilograms. They also used the official standard when they weighed the silver. 26 They had counted all the men who were at least twenty years old, and each man had paid a silver coin that weighed about five grams, according to the official standard. That was a total of 603, 550 men. 27 It took 3, 400 kilograms of silver to make the bases under the posts that supported the sacred tent’s curtains. They used 34 kilograms for each of the 100 bases. 28 With the remaining the 20 kilograms of silver, they made the hooks for the posts, covered the tops of the posts, and made rounded corners. 29 The people had contributed about 2, 400 kilograms of bronze. 30 With the bronze he made the bases to support the posts at the entrance of the sacred tent, the altar {for burning sacrifices} with its grate and its tools, 31 the bases {for the posts that supported the curtains} that surrounded the courtyard, the bases for the entrance to the courtyard, and the pegs for the sacred tent and for the curtains around the courtyard.