Exodus 39
Every Talent Counted and Accounted For
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39:1All the gold worked into the objects, for all the work of the holy things, was the gold of the firstfruits: twenty-nine talents and seven hundred twenty shekels, by the holy shekel.
39:2The silver contribution from the enrolled men of the congregation was a hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels,
39:3One drachma per head, half a shekel by the holy shekel, for everyone passing into the enrollment from twenty years old upward: six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
39:4The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the hundred capitals of the tent and the capitals of the veil: a hundred capitals for the hundred talents, a talent per capital.
39:5They used the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels for the pillars’ hooks; he gilded their capitals and adorned them.
39:6The bronze of the contribution was seventy talents and one thousand five hundred shekels.
39:7From it he made the bases of the entrance of the Tent of Testimony,
39:8the bases of the court all around, the bases of the court’s gate, the pegs of the tent, and the pegs of the surrounding court.
39:9the bronze attachment of the altar, all the altar’s utensils, and all the equipment of the Tent of Testimony,
Completion and Final Inspection
39:10–11The children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses; so they did. From the remaining gold of the contribution they made utensils for ministering before the Lord.
39:12From the remaining blue, purple, and scarlet they made Aaron’s robes for ministry, to minister in the sanctuary.
39:13They brought to Moses the robes, the tent and its utensils, its bases, its bars, and its pillars;
39:14the ark of the covenant and its carrying poles;
39:15the altar and all its utensils, the anointing oil, and the compounded incense;
39:16the pure lampstand and its lamps, the lamps for burning, and the oil for the light;
39:17the table of presentation and all its utensils, and the bread set before God;
39:18Aaron’s robes for the sanctuary and his sons’ robes for priestly service.
39:19(i)the court’s hangings and pillars, the entrance veil of the tent and of the court’s gate;
39:19(ii)all the tent’s utensils and equipment;
39:20the leather coverings of rams’ skins dyed red, the coverings of blue skins, and the coverings for the remaining things;
39:21the pegs, and all the equipment for the work of the Tent of Testimony;
39:22The children of Israel made all the equipment as the Lord commanded Moses.
39:23Moses saw all the work, and they had done it in the way the Lord commanded Moses; so they had done it. Moses blessed them.
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Saints Translation · Liturgical reading edition · V1 · working draft awaiting specialist review.