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Exodus 38:20-22
New Catholic Bible
Exodus 38:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 All the pegs of the tabernacle and of the surrounding courtyard were made out of bronze.
21 The Materials Used.[a] These are the expenses for the tabernacle, the dwelling place of the Testimony, that Moses ordered the Levites to calculate under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. 22 Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, completed what the Lord had commanded Moses to do.
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- Exodus 38:21 According to the account, a ton of gold and five tons of silver were used; the figures are certainly exaggerated in order to make the point that there is no such thing as too much beauty when it comes to honoring the presence of God in the midst of humanity.
