Exodus 27
1 “Make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar is to be square—and three cubits high.
2 Make horns for its four corners; the horns are to be one piece with it. Overlay it with bronze.
3 Make its pots for removing the ashes, its shovels, its basins, its forks, and its firepans. Make all its utensils of bronze.
4 Make a bronze grating for it, a meshwork, and make four bronze rings for the mesh, at its four corners.
5 Place it beneath the ledge of the altar, below, so that the mesh reaches halfway up the altar.
6 Make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
7 The poles are to be put through the rings, and they are to be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.
8 Make it hollow, of boards. Make it just as you were shown on the mountain.
9 Make the courtyard of the tabernacle: on the south side, hangings of finely twisted linen, a hundred cubits long along that side;
10 its twenty posts and their twenty bases are to be bronze; the hooks on the posts and their connecting rods are to be silver.
11 In the same way, along the north side: hangings a hundred cubits long, with its twenty posts and their twenty bases of bronze, and the hooks on the posts and their connecting rods of silver.”
12 “The width of the courtyard on the west side is to have hangings fifty cubits long, with ten posts and ten bases.
13 The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits.
14 Hangings fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases;
15 and on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
16 For the entrance to the courtyard, make a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, embroidered by a skilled worker, with four posts and four bases.
17 All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver connecting rods; their hooks are to be silver, and their bases bronze.
18 The courtyard is to be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide on each side, with hangings five cubits high, of finely twisted linen, and with bronze bases.
19 All the utensils of the tabernacle for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the courtyard are to be bronze.
20 You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure, beaten olive oil for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually.
21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend it from evening until morning before the LORD. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.”
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