Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Exodus 38:5-20 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

5. Then he attached a bronze ring beneath the ledge at the four corners to put the poles through.

6. He covered two acacia wood poles with bronze and

7. put them through the rings for carrying the altar, which was shaped like an open box.

8. Bezalel made a large bowl and a stand out of bronze from the mirrors of the women who helped at the entrance to the sacred tent.

9-17. Around the sacred tent Bezalel built a courtyard forty-four metres long on the south and north and twenty-two metres wide on the east and west. He used twenty bronze posts on bronze stands for the south and north and ten for the west. Then he hung a curtain of fine linen on the posts along each of these three sides by using silver hooks and rods. He placed three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hung a curtain six and two thirds metres wide on each set of posts.

18-19. For the entrance to the courtyard, Bezalel made a curtain nine metres long, which he hung on four bronze posts that were set on bronze stands. This curtain was the same height as the one for the rest of the courtyard and was made of fine linen embroidered and woven with blue, purple, and red wool. He hung the curtain on the four posts, using silver hooks and rods.

20. The pegs for the tent and for the curtain around the tent were made of bronze.