ExodusChapter 27

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¹"You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square. It is to be 7 1/2 feet long, 7 1/2 feet wide, and 4 1/2 feet high.a ²Make a horn on each of its four corners. The horns are to be one piece with the altar. Cover the altar with bronze. ³Make all its tools out of bronze. Make its pots for taking away the ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its fire pans. ⁴Make a grate of bronze net for it. Make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the net. ⁵Put the grate under the ledge of the altar. The net will reach halfway up the altar. ⁶Also make poles of acacia wood for the altar. Cover them with bronze. ⁷Put the poles through the rings. The poles will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried. ⁸Build the altar out of boards so that it is hollow inside. Make it just as you were shown on the mountain. ⁹You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard, make curtains of finely spun linen. That side is to be 150 feet long.b ¹⁰Make twenty posts and twenty bronze bases for it. Put silver hooks and bands on the posts. ¹¹In the same way, put curtains on the north side, 150 feet long. Make twenty posts and twenty bronze bases for it. Put silver hooks and bands on the posts. ¹²The curtains on the west side of the courtyard are to be 75 feet wide. They will have ten posts and ten bases.c ¹³The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be 75 feet wide. ¹⁴Make the curtains on one side 22 1/2 feet long. Give them three posts and three bases.d ¹⁵Make the curtains on the other side 22 1/2 feet long too. Give them three posts and three bases. ¹⁶The gate of the courtyard is to be 30 feet long. It will have a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely spun linen. It will have four posts and four bases.e ¹⁷All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases. ¹⁸The whole courtyard is to be 150 feet long and 75 feet wide. It will have curtains of finely spun linen 7 1/2 feet high, with bronze bases.f ¹⁹All the tools of the tabernacle, for every use, are to be made of bronze. This includes all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard. ²⁰Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from pressed olives for the light. It will keep the lamps burning all the time. ²¹Aaron and his sons are to take care of the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. They will do this in the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony. This is a law for the Israelites that will last for all the generations to come.