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Bezalel made the table [for the bread] of acacia wood; it was two cubits long, a cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.

He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a border of gold for it all around [its top].

He made a rim for it [just under the top] a hand width wide all around, and a border of gold around its rim.

He cast four rings of gold for it and fastened the rings to the four corners that were at its four legs.

Close by the rim were the rings, the holders for the poles [to pass through] to carry the table.

He made the utensils which were to be on the table, its dishes and its pans [for bread], its bowls and its jars for pouring drink offerings, of pure gold.

three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a calyx and a flower in one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, a calyx and a flower in the opposite branch—so for the six branches coming out of the center shaft of the lampstand.

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

He made two rings of gold for it under its rim, on its two opposite sides, as holders for the poles [to pass through] to carry it.

He made for the altar a grating of bronze mesh under its rim, extending halfway up it.

He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the carrying poles.

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

And for the north side [of the court the curtains were also] a hundred cubits; their twenty support poles and their twenty bronze sockets; the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were silver.

For the west side [of the court] there were curtains of fifty cubits with their ten support poles and their ten sockets; the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were silver.

For the east side [the front of the courtyard, there were curtains of] fifty cubits.

The curtains for one side of the court gate were fifteen cubits, with their three support poles and their three sockets;

and the same for the other side [of the court gate]. Left and right of the court gate there were curtains of fifteen cubits; with their three support poles and their three sockets.

The sockets for the support poles were made of bronze, the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were made of silver; and silver overlaid their tops. All the support poles of the court had silver connecting rings.

The screen (curtain) for the gate of the courtyard [on the east side] was the work of an embroiderer, in blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and fine twisted linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, corresponding to the curtains of the court.

All the pegs for the tabernacle and the court were bronze.