Exodus 27

1 “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.

2 Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.

3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.

4 Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.

5 Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.

6 Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.

7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.

8 Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

9 You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.

10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.

11 Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver.

12 The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.

And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;

13 The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.

And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.

14 Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,

On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;

15 and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.

And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.

16 The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

17 All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.

18 The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.

The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass.

19 All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.

All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

20 And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.

Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.