< 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.
Moreouer thou shalt make the altar of Shittim wood, fiue cubites long and fiue cubites broade (the altar shall be foure square) and the height thereof three cubites.
2 Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
And thou shalt make it hornes in the foure corners thereof: the hornes shalbe of it selfe, and thou shalt couer it with brasse.
3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
Also thou shalt make his ashpannes for his ashes and his besoms, and his basens, and his flesh-hookes, and his censers: thou shalt make all the instruments thereof of brasse.
4 Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.
And thou shalt make vnto it a grate like networke of brasse: also vpon that grate shalt thou make foure brasen rings vpon the foure corners thereof.
5 Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
And thou shalt put it vnder the compasse of the altar beneath, that the grate may be in the middes of the altar.
6 Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
Also thou shalt make barres for the altar, barres, I say, of Shittim wood, and shalt couer them with brasse.
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 the barres thereof shalbe put in the rings, the which barres shalbe vpon the two sides of the altar to beare 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.
Thou shalt make the altar holowe betweene the boardes: as God shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
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,
Also thou shalt make the court of the Tabernacle in the Southside, euen full South: the court shall haue curtaines of fine twined linnen, of an hundreth cubites long, for one side,
10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
And it shall haue twentie pillars, with their twentie sockets of brasse: the heades of the pillars, and their filets shalbe siluer.
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.
Likewise on the Northside in length there shalbe hangings of an hundreth cubites long, and the twentie pillars thereof with their twentie sockets of brasse: the heades of the pillars and the filets shalbe siluer.
12 The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.
And the breadth of the court on the Westside shall haue curtaines of fiftie cubites, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.
13 The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
And the breadth of the court, Eastwarde full East shall haue fiftie cubites.
14 Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
Also hangings of fifteene cubites shalbe on the one side with their three pillars and their three sockets.
15 and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
Likewise on the other side shalbe hangings of fifteene cubites, with their three pillars and their three sockets.
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 in the gate of the court shalbe a vaile of twentie cubites, of blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine twined linen wrought with needle, with the foure pillars thereof and their foure sockets.
17 All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
All the pillars of the court shall haue filets of siluer round about, with their heads of siluer, and their sockets of brasse.
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 length of the court shalbe an hundreth cubites, and the breadth fiftie at either ende, and the height fiue cubites, and the hangings of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brasse.
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.
Al the vessels of the Tabernacle for al maner seruice thereof, and all the pinnes thereof, and all the pinnes of the court shalbe brasse.
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.
And thou shalt commande the children of Israel, that they bring vnto thee pure oyle oliue beaten, for the light, that the lampes may alway burne.
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.
In the Tabernacle of the Congregation without the vaile, which is before the Testimony, shall Aaron and his sonnes dresse them from euening to morning before the Lord, for a statute for euer vnto their generations, to be obserued by the children of Israel.