²⁰ All the tent pegs used in the Tabernacle and courtyard were made of bronze.

¹⁹ and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.

²¹ We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. ²² Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.

²³ He will bring honor to his family name, for I will drive him firmly in place like a nail in the wall.

¹¹ The words of the wise are like cattle prods—painful but helpful. Their collected sayings are like a nail-studded stick with which a shepherd^[a] drives the sheep.

⁹ The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces^[a] each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.

¹⁹ “All the articles used in the rituals of the Tabernacle, including all the tent pegs used to support the Tabernacle and the courtyard curtains, must be made of bronze.