Keluaran 37:1--38:31
Konteks37:1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches. 37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border 1 of gold for it. 37:3 He cast four gold rings for it that he put 2 on its four feet, with 3 two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 37:4 He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold, 37:5 and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark.
37:6 He made 4 an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches. 37:7 He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid, 37:8 one cherub on one end 5 and one cherub on the other end. 6 He made the cherubim from the atonement lid on its two ends. 37:9 The cherubim were spreading their wings 7 upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim 8 faced each other, 9 looking toward the atonement lid. 10
37:10 He made the table of acacia wood; its length was three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches. 37:11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. 37:12 He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame. 37:13 He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings at the four corners where its four legs were. 37:14 The rings were close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table. 37:15 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. 37:16 He made the vessels which were on the table out of pure gold, its 11 plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings.
37:17 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece. 12 37:18 Six branches were extending from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. 37:19 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the first branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the next 13 branch, and the same 14 for the six branches that were extending from the lampstand. 37:20 On the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms, 37:21 with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it; according to the six branches that extended from it. 15 37:22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece; 16 all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold. 37:23 He made its seven lamps, its trimmers, and its trays of pure gold. 37:24 He made the lampstand 17 and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.
37:25 He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. 18 37:26 He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, 19 its four walls, 20 and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. 21 37:27 He also made 22 two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, 23 as places 24 for poles to carry it with. 37:28 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
37:29 He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
38:1 He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide – it was square – and its height was four feet six inches. 38:2 He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, 25 and he overlaid it with bronze. 38:3 He made all the utensils of the altar – the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans – he made all its utensils of bronze. 38:4 He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom. 38:5 He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles. 38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 38:7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar 26 hollow, out of boards.
38:8 He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served 27 at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
38:9 He made the courtyard. For the south side 28 the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long, 38:10 with 29 their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:11 For the north side the hangings were 30 one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:12 For the west side there were 31 hangings seventy-five feet long, with 32 their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:13 For the east side, toward the sunrise, it was seventy-five feet wide, 33 38:14 with hangings on one side 34 of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases, 38:15 and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, 35 the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 38:16 All the hangings around the courtyard were of fine twisted linen. 38:17 The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks of the posts and their bands were silver, their tops were overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands. 36 38:18 The curtain 37 for the gate of the courtyard was of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. It was thirty feet long, and like the hangings in the courtyard, it was seven and a half feet high, 38:19 with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver. 38:20 All the tent pegs of the tabernacle and of the courtyard all around were bronze.
38:21 This is the inventory 38 of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which was counted 39 by the order 40 of Moses, being the work 41 of the Levites under the direction 42 of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest. 38:22 Now Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded Moses; 38:23 and with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an artisan, a designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.
38:24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary 43 (namely, 44 the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, 45 according to the sanctuary shekel.
38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, 46 according to the sanctuary shekel, 38:26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, 47 according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 48 603,550 in all. 49 38:27 The one hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the special curtain – one hundred bases for one hundred talents, one talent per base. 38:28 From the remaining 1,775 shekels 50 he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.
38:29 The bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels. 51 38:30 With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar, 38:31 the bases for the courtyard all around, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs of the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard all around. 52
[37:3] 2 tn “that he put” has been supplied.
[37:3] 3 tn This is taken as a circumstantial clause; the clause begins with the conjunction vav.
[37:6] 4 tn Heb “and he made.”
[37:8] 5 tn Heb “from/at [the] end, from this.”
[37:8] 6 tn The repetition of the expression indicates it has the distributive sense.
[37:9] 7 tn The construction is a participle in construct followed by the genitive “wings” – “spreaders of wings.”
[37:9] 8 tn “The cherubim” has been placed here instead of in the second clause to produce a smoother translation.
[37:9] 9 tn Heb “and their faces a man to his brother.”
[37:9] 10 tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”
[37:16] 11 tn The suffixes on these could also indicate the indirect object (see Exod 25:29).
[37:17] 12 tn Heb “from it”; the referent (“the same piece” of wrought metal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[37:19] 13 tn Heb “the one branch.” But the repetition of “one…one” means here one after another, or the “first” and then the “next.”
[37:19] 14 tn Heb “thus for six branches….”
[37:21] 15 tn As in Exod 26:35, the translation of “first” and “next” and “third” is interpretive, because the text simply says “under two branches” in each of three places.
[37:22] 16 tn Heb “were from it.”
[37:24] 17 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the lampstand) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[37:25] 18 tn Heb “from it were its horns,” meaning that they were made from the same piece.
[37:26] 20 tn Heb “its walls around.”
[37:26] 21 tn Heb “and he made for it border gold around.”
[37:27] 22 tn Heb “and he made.”
[37:27] 23 sn Since it was a small altar, it needed only two rings, one on either side, in order to be carried. The second mention of their location clarifies that they should be on the sides, the right and the left, as one approached the altar.
[37:27] 24 tn Heb “for houses.”
[38:2] 25 tn Heb “its horns were from it,” meaning from the same piece.
[38:7] 26 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the altar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[38:8] 27 sn The word for “serve” is not the ordinary one. It means “to serve in a host,” especially in a war. It appears that women were organized into bands and served at the tent of meeting. S. R. Driver thinks that this meant “no doubt” washing, cleaning, or repairing (Exodus, 391). But there is no hint of that (see 1 Sam 2:22; and see Ps 68:11 [12 Hebrew text]). They seem to have had more to do than what Driver said.
[38:9] 28 tn Heb “south side southward.”
[38:10] 29 tn While this verse could be translated as an independent sentence, it is probably to be subordinated as a circumstantial clause in line with Exod 27:10-12, as well as v. 12 of this passage.
[38:11] 30 tn Here the phrase “the hangings were” has been supplied.
[38:12] 31 tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.
[38:12] 32 tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.
[38:13] 33 tn The text simply says “seventy-five feet.”
[38:14] 34 tn The word literally means “shoulder.” The next words, “of the gate,” have been supplied here. The east end contained the courtyard’s entry with a wall of curtains on each side of the entry (see v. 15).
[38:15] 35 tn Heb “from this and from this” (cf, 17:12; 25:19; 26:13; 32:15; Josh 8:22, 33; 1 Kgs 10:19-20; Ezek 45:7).
[38:17] 36 tn Heb “they were banded with silver.”
[38:18] 37 tn This word is different from the word for hangings; it has more of the idea of a screen, shielding or securing the area.
[38:21] 38 tn The Hebrew word is פְּקוּדֵי (pÿqude), which in a slavishly literal way would be “visitations of” the tabernacle. But the word often has the idea of “numbering” or “appointing” as well. Here it is an accounting or enumeration of the materials that people brought, so the contemporary term “inventory” is a close approximation. By using this Hebrew word there is also the indication that whatever was given, i.e., appointed for the tabernacle, was changed forever in its use. This is consistent with this Hebrew root, which does have a sense of changing the destiny of someone (“God will surely visit you”). The list in this section will also be tied to the numbering of the people.
[38:21] 39 tn The same verb is used here, but now in the Pual perfect tense, third masculine singular. A translation “was numbered” or “was counted” works. The verb is singular because it refers to the tabernacle as a unit. This section will list what made up the tabernacle.
[38:21] 40 tn Heb “at/by the mouth of.”
[38:21] 41 tn The noun is “work” or “service.” S. R. Driver explains that the reckonings were not made for the Levites, but that they were the work of the Levites, done by them under the direction of Ithamar (Exodus, 393).
[38:21] 42 tn Heb “by the hand of.”
[38:24] 43 tn These words form the casus pendens, or independent nominative absolute, followed by the apodosis beginning with the vav (ו; see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 469).
[38:24] 44 tn Heb “and it was.”
[38:24] 45 sn There were 3000 shekels in a talent, and so the total weight here in shekels would be 87,730 shekels of gold. If the sanctuary shekel was 224 grs., then this was about 40,940 oz. troy. This is estimated to be a little over a ton (cf. NCV “over 2,000 pounds”; TEV “a thousand kilogrammes”; CEV “two thousand two hundred nine pounds”; NLT “about 2,200 pounds”), although other widely diverging estimates are also given.
[38:25] 46 sn This would be a total of 301,775 shekels (about 140,828 oz), being a half shekel exacted per person from 605,550 male Israelites 20 years old or more (Num 1:46). The amount is estimated to be around 3.75 tons.
[38:26] 47 sn The weight would be about half an ounce.
[38:26] 49 tn The phrase “in all” has been supplied.
[38:28] 50 tn Here the word “shekels” is understood; about 45 pounds.
[38:29] 51 sn The total shekels would have been 212,400 shekels, which would be about 108,749 oz. This would make about 2.5 to 3 tons.
[38:31] 52 sn The bronze altar is the altar for the burnt offering; the large bronze basin is not included here in the list.
