Building: Altar, Basin, and Courtyard · Again the text repeats, almost verbatim, the details of the work the craftsmen accomplished according to the instructions God gave Moses in Exodus 25–30. After completing the furnishings for the tent of meeting, they made the “altar of burnt offering” and the “bronze basin” for washing for the courtyard. They hung the “courtyard curtains” on their “posts.” The chapter ends with some new information, a list of the amounts of gold, silver, and bronze used for the tabernacle.

38:1–7  They built the altar of burnt offering with acacia wood and overlaid . . . with bronze. The skilled craftsmen also made its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans and its grating. (See the comments on the altar and its use at 27:1–8.) They also made the “br…