| 1 | And make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits square and three cubits high [within reach of all]. |
| 2 | Make horns for it on its four corners; they shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. |
| 3 | You shall make pots to take away its ashes, and shovels, basins, forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze. |
| 4 | Also make for it a grate, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. |
| 5 | And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the net will extend halfway down the altar. |
| 6 | And make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood overlaid with bronze. |
| 7 | The poles shall be put through the rings on the two sides of the altar, with which to carry it. |
| 8 | You shall make [the altar] hollow with slabs
or
planks; as shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made. |
| 9 | And you shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits long for one side; |
| 10 | Their pillars shall be twenty and their sockets twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their joinings shall be of silver; |
| 11 | Likewise for the north side hangings, a hundred cubits long, and their twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their joinings shall be of silver. |
| 12 | And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten sockets. |
| 13 | The breadth of the court to the front, the east side, shall be fifty cubits. |
| 14 | The hangings for one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three sockets. |
| 15 | On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three sockets. |
| 16 | And for the gate of the court there shall be a hanging [for a screen] twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff] and fine twined linen, embroidered. It shall have four pillars and four sockets for them. |
| 17 | All the pillars round about the court shall be joined together with silver rods; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze. |
| 18 | The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits and the breadth fifty and the height five cubits, [with hangings of] fine twined linen and sockets of bronze. |
| 19 | All the tabernacle’s utensils
and
instruments used in all its service, and all its pegs and all the pegs for the court, shall be of bronze. |
| 20 | You shall command the Israelites to provide you with pure oil of crushed olives for the light, to cause it to burn continually [every night]. |
| 21 | In the Tent of Meeting [of God with His people], outside the veil which sets apart the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it burning from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute to be observed on behalf of the Israelites throughout their generations. |
Cross references:
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Exodus 27:7 : Num. 4:14, 15.
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