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Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

and he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a gold molding for it all around.

He also made an atoning cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

Then he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding for it all around.

And he made a rim for it of a hand width all around, and made a gold molding for its rim all around.

three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a bulb and a flower on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a bulb and a flower on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

and a bulb was under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

Their bulbs and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was a single hammered work of pure gold.

He made it and all its utensils from a talent of pure gold.

Then he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit long and a cubit wide, square, and two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it.

And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and he made a gold molding for it all around.

Then he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.

And he made for the altar a grating of bronze netting beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up.

Then he made the courtyard: for the south side the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits;

For the north side there were a hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a skilled embroiderer, and a weaver in violet, in purple, and in scarlet material, and fine linen.

And the silver of those of the congregation who were counted was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), assessed to each one who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

The hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base.