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Giovedi, 28 marzo 2024 - San Castore di Tarso ( Letture di oggi)

Exodus 38


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1He made the altar of burnt offerings of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; it was squareand three cubits high.2At its four corners he made horns, the horns being of a piece with it, and overlaid it with bronze.3He made all the altar accessories: the ash pans, shovels, sprinkling basins, hooks and fire pans; hemade al the altar accessories of bronze.4He also made a grating for the altar of bronze network, below its ledge, underneath, coming halfwayup.5He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating to take the shafts.6He made the shafts of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.7He passed the shafts through the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altarhollow, out of boards.8He made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at theentrance to the Tent of Meeting.9He made the court. On the south side, on the south, the curtaining of the court was of finely wovenlinen a hundred cubits long.10Its twenty poles and their sockets being of bronze, and their hooks and rods of silver;11and on the north side, a hundred cubits of curtaining, its twenty poles and their twenty sockets beingof bronze, and their hooks and rods of silver.12On the west side there were fifty cubits of curtaining, with its ten poles and their ten sockets, thepoles' hooks and rods being of silver;13and on the east side on the east, there were fifty cubits.14On the one side there were fifteen cubits of curtaining, with its three poles and their three sockets,15and on the other side -- either side of the gateway to the court -- there were fifteen cubits ofcurtaining with its three poles and their three sockets.16Al the curtaining round the court was of finely woven linen,17the sockets for the poles were of bronze, the poles' hooks and rods of silver, their capitals wereoverlaid with silver and al the poles of the court had silver rods.18The screen for the gateway to the court was of finely woven linen embroidered with violet-purple, red-purple and crimson, twenty cubits long and five cubits high (al the way along) like the curtaining of the court,19its four poles and their four sockets being of bronze, their hooks of silver, their capitals overlaid withsilver, and their rods of silver.20Al the pegs round the Dwel ing and the court were of bronze.21These are the accounts for the Dwelling -- the Dwel ing of the Testimony -- drawn up by order ofMoses, the work of Levites, produced by Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.22Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that Yahweh ordered Moses tomake,23his assistant being Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, embroiderer andneedleworker in violet-purple, red-purple and crimson materials and fine linen.24The amount of gold used for the work, for the entire work for the sanctuary (the gold consecrated forthe purpose) was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, reckoned by the sanctuary shekel.25The silver from the census of the community was one hundred talents and one thousand sevenhundred and seventy-five shekels, reckoned by the sanctuary shekel,26one beqa per head, half a shekel reckoned by the sanctuary shekel, for everyone of twenty years andover included in the census, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty persons.27A hundred talents of silver were used for casting the sockets for the sanctuary and the sockets for thecurtain: a hundred sockets from a hundred talents, one talent per socket.28From the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made the hooks for the poles,overlaid their capitals and made the rods for them.29The bronze consecrated for the purpose amounted to seventy talents and two thousand four hundredshekels,30and from it he made the sockets for the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, its bronzegrating and al the altar accessories,31the sockets al round the court, the sockets for the gateway to the court, all the pegs for the Dwel ingand all the pegs round the court.