twenty nine hundred weight and seven hundred and thirty sicles,
according to the holy sicle. And the sum of silver that came of the
multitude, was five score hundred weight and a thousand seven hundred
and seventy five sicles of the holy sicle. Every man offering half a
sicle after the weight of the holy sicle among them that went to be
numbered from twenty years old and above, among six hundred thousand
and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. And the five score
hundred weight of silver went to the casting of the sockets of the
sanctuary and the sockets of the vail: an hundred sockets of the five
score hundred weight, an hundred weight to every socket. And the
thousand seven hundred and seventy five sicles, made knops to the
pillars and overlaid the heads and hooped them. And the brass of the
wave offering was seventy hundred weight and two thousand, and four
hundred sicles. And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the
tabernacle of witness, and the brazen altar, and the brazen gridiron
that longeth thereto, and all the vessels of the altar, and the sockets
of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all
the pins of the habitation, and all the pins of the court round about.
Chapter .xxxix.
And of the jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss, they made the
vestments of ministration to do service {[in]} in that holy place, and
made the holy garments that pertained to Aaron, as the LORD commanded
Moses. And they made the Ephod of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple, and
twined byss. And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it
into wires: to work it in the jacinth, scarlet, purple, and the byss,
with broidered work. And they made the sides come together, and closed
them up by the two edges. And the broidering of the girdle that was
upon it, was of the same stuff and after the same work of gold,
jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they wrought Onyx stones closed in ouches of gold and graved as
signets are graven with the names of the children of Israel, and put
them on the shoulders of the Ephod that they should be a remembrance of
the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses. And they made the
brestlap of cunning work, after the work of the Ephod: even of gold,
Iacinct, scarlet, purple and twined byss And they made it four square
and double, an hand breadth long and an hand breadth broad. And they
filled it with four rows of stones (the first row: Sardios, a Topas and
Smaragdus: the second row: a Ruby, a Sapphire and a Diamond. The third
row: Ligurius, an Achat and an Amethyst. The fourth row: a Turquoise,
an onyx and a Iasper) closed in ouches of gold in their inclosures. And
the twelve stones were graven as signets with the names of the children
of Israel: every stone with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
And they made upon the breastlap, two fastening chains of wreathen work
and pure gold. And they made two hooks of gold and two gold rings, and
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