Exodus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 92

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16 bases. All the curtains around the 17 court were of spun linen, and the 18 zo bases of the pillars were of brass, but the spikes of the pillars and the rods were of silver, and the capitals of the pillars of silver; with reds of silver for all the pillars of the court. The skreen for the gate of the

court, however, was made of em· broidery of azure, and purple, and blue-red, and spun linen; and its length was twenty cubits, and in height at the fold-back flvelcubits, to the juncture with the curtains of the court; with four pillars and four bases of brass; but the pins of silver, and the capitals ofthe headsof the pillars of silver, with all the other things for the tent and the court around of brass. Glilye <lB$cin1s uf the ®¤lm·unc12. 2I 22 These were the o&cers of the tent, the Hall of Assembly-—··—which were

appointed by the mouth of Moses, for the service of the Levites, under Aithamar, the son of Aaron the priest, with . Bezalal the son of Auri, the son of Hor of the tribe of judah to make everything that the Evan-Lrvmc had commanded by Moses; and with them Ahaliab the son of Ahhismak of the tribe of Dan, to engrave, and damask,. and embroider, in azure, and purple, and blue, and red; and in spinning. Qtmuunt nf ®¤1h anh utlyzr metals 28 meh in ily: Wulrzmaclz. The whole of the gold that was

used inthe furniture of the sanctuary was twenty—nine talents, and nine hundred and thirty shekels, by the sacred weight. And of silver from the chiefs of the congregation one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and iifty·seven shekels bythe sacred weight. The half shekel po1l~tax by the

sacred weight, from those who were passed into the regiments, from twenty years of age and over that, was six hundred. and thirty thousand, tive hundred and fifty. And there were used one hundred talents of silver in casting the bases of the sanctuary; and the bases of the doors ;——a hun- dred bases from a hundred talents: a talent to a base. They also used a thousand, seven hundred, and seventy·nve for the spikes to the pillars, and the capitals on their heads, and the rods for them. Besides, the brass ohered was

seventy thousand talents, and four hundred shekels, which were used for the bases of the doors of the Hall of Assembly and the brass of the door·posts, and the Brazen Altar, and the lattice work of brass for it, and the whole of the instruments of the altar, with the bases of the court around, and the bases of the gates of the court, and all the rest of the tent, and the remainder of the court around. And of the azure, and purple, and 39 blue-red, they made the service robes, to serve in the sanctuary, as well as the holy robes for Aaron, as the Evan-1.1vme commanded to Moses. They also made the ephod of gold, 2 azure, purple, and blue—red, and spun linen; And there were strips of 3 gold and wire twisted in the working among the azure, and among the purple, and among the blue-red, and among the linen threads that made the damasking. They made shoulder pieces that joined upon the two halves by a seam. They also made the breast-plate of the ephod, to be worn over it, of gold, azure, and purple, and blue-red, and spun linen, as the EvER—L1v1NG; commanded Moses. Besides they made two onyx stones

surrounded with gold settings, en- graved like the engraving of a seal with the names of the sons of Israel; and placed them upon the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel,-—»—as the EvER~ Ltvmc; commanded to Moses. They also made the breast-plate of

damasked work, as they made the ephod, of gold, and azure, and purple, and blue-red, and spunlinen. The breastplate was made a square doubled,———a span long and .a span broad, doubled; and it was lilled with four rows of stones: The first row was; A ruby, a topaz and a diamond. The second row was: An emerald, a sapphire and an opal. The third row was: A ligure, an agate and an amethyst; Ana thefourt row was: A tarshish, an onyx, and a jasper. O2 I0 II I2