The Supervision of the Work

21 This is the number of the things for the tabernacle , the tabernacle of the testimony , as they were numbered according to the command of Moses , for the service of the Levites , by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest . 22 Now Bezalel the son of Uri , the son of Hur , of the tribe of Judah , made all that the Lord had commanded Moses . 23 With him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach , of the tribe of Dan , an engraver and a skillful workman and a weaver in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and fine linen .

The Metal of the Sanctuary

24 All the gold that was used for the work , in all the work of the sanctuary , even the gold of the wave offering , was 29 e talents and 730 e e shekels , according to the shekel of the sanctuary . 25 The silver of those of the congregation who were numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 e e e e shekels , according to the shekel of the sanctuary ; 26 a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary ), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered , from twenty years old and upward , for 603,550 e e e e e e e men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil ; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents , a talent for a socket . 28 Of the 1,775 e e e e shekels, he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their tops and made bands for them. 29 The bronze of the wave offering was 70 talents and 2,400 e e shekels . 30 With it he made the sockets to the doorway of the tent of meeting , and the bronze altar and its bronze grating , and all the utensils of the altar , 31 and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the gate of the court , and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around .

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 38:21-31

Commentary on Exodus 38:21-31

(Read Exodus 38:21-31)

The foundation of massy pieces of silver showed the solidity and purity of the truth upon which the church is founded. Let us regard the Lord Jesus Christ while reading of the furniture of the tabernacle. While looking at the altar of burnt-offering, let us see Jesus. In him, his righteousness, and salvation, is a full and sufficient offering for sin. In the laver of regeneration, by his Holy Spirit, let our souls be washed, and they shall be clean; and as the people offered willingly, so may our souls be made willing. Let us be ready to part with any thing, and count all but loss to win Christ.