1 O altar dos sacrifícios queimados (holocaustos) foi igualmente construído em madeira de acácia, quadrado, com 2,5 metros de lado e 1,5 metro de altura. Tinha quatro chifres em cada canto, tudo de uma só peça com o resto. Este altar foi revestido de bronze.3 Depois fez em bronze os utensílios a serem empregados no serviço do altar: as caldeiras, as pás, as bacias, os garfos e os braseiros. Seguidamente fez uma grelha de bronze que ficou apoiado numa cercadura, na parte inferior, a meia altura. Foram feitas ainda quatro argolas para cada lado da grelha, para nelas se porem os varais, quando do transporte. Estas varas eram feitas de madeira de acácia revestidas de bronze. Pôs também dois varais nas argolas aos lados do altar a fim de ser transportado. Este altar, feito de pranchas, era oco por dentro.8 A bacia de bronze e o seu pé, da mesma liga, foi feita com os espelhos das mulheres, as quais se juntaram à entrada do tabernáculo.9 Em seguida foi a vez do pátio. A parede do sul tinha 50 metros de comprimento, e consistia em cortinas de linho fino retorcido. Havia vinte postes, para manter as cortinas, e que assentavam em bases de bronze, e tinham ganchos e hastes de prata. A parede no norte media, da mesma forma, 50 metros, com vinte colunas e bases de bronze, assim como também com ganchos e hastes de prata. O lado ocidental ficou com 25 metros. As cortinas foram suspensas em dez postes, com as suas bases, e com ganchos e hastes de prata. O lado oriental tinha igualmente 25 metros.14 As cortinas de ambos os lados da entrada tinham 7 metros e meio de comprimento com três postes e três bases. Todas as cortinas que formavam as paredes do pátio eram tecidas com linho fino retorcido. Cada poste tinha uma base de bronze e todos os ganchos e hastes foram feitos de prata maciça.18 As cortinas da entrada do pátio foram feitas também em linho fino retorcido, artisticamente bordadas em azul, púrpura e carmezim. Tinha essa entrada 10 metros de comprimento e 2 de altura (a largura do tecido), justamente tal como todo o resto da parede do pátio. As cortinas desta porta eram sustentadas por quatro colunas com quatro bases de bronze e com ganchos e hastes de prata. Os cimos dos postes eram de prata.20 Todas as estacas, tanto do tabernáculo como do pátio, eram de bronze.21 Esta é a enumeração das várias fases da construção do tabernáculo para abrigar a arca, de forma a que os levitas pudessem cumprir o seu ministério. Tudo foi feito na ordem indicada por Moisés e sob a inspecção de Itamar, filho de Arão o sacerdote. Bezalel (filho de Uri e neto de Hur, da tribo de Judá) era o responsável por tudo, e foi assistido por Aoliabe (filho de Aisamaque da tribo de Dan), que também era um hábil artífice e perito em trabalhos de gravação, de tecelagem e de bordados em azul, em púrpura, em carmezim, e em tecidos de linho fino.24 Os donativos que o povo trouxe ascenderam a 1.000 quilos de ouro; todo ele foi usado no tabernáculo.25 O montante da prata foi de 3.500 quilos, que vieram da taxa paga de 6 gramas de prata por todos os que estavam registados, segundo o censo do povo, de vinte anos para cima, num total de 603.550 homens. As bases para as tábuas das paredes do santuário e para os postes que sustentavam o véu requereram 3.400 quilos de prata, ou seja 34 quilos por cada base aproximadamente. O resto da prata foi empregue nos postes e no revestimento dos seus cimos, assim como nos ganchos e hastes.29 O povo trouxe 2.400 quilos de bronze que foi usado na fundição das bases dos postes da entrada do tabernáculo e na construção do altar de bronze, na sua grelha e seus utensílios, nas bases das colunas que suportam as cortinas da entrada do pátio e nas estacas empregadas na montagem do tabernáculo e do pátio.

1 And he made the altar of burnt-offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length of it, and five cubits the breadth of it; it was foursquare; and its hight was three cubits.2 And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.3 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 of it he made of brass.4 And he made for the altar a brazen grate of net-work under the compass of it beneath to the midst of it.5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staffs.6 And he made the staffs of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.7 And he put the staffs into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with; he made the altar hollow with boards.8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the looking-glasses of the women assembling, who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits:10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, were of silver.11 And for the north side, the hangings were a hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty: the hooks of the pillars, and their filets, of silver.12 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.13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.15 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.16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.18 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 hight in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.24 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, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and filleted them.29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.30 And with this 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,31 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.