Exodus 27
1 And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
You must make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar must be square and three cubits high.
2 Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
You must make extensions of its four corners shaped like ox horns. The horns will be made as one piece with the altar, and you must cover them with bronze.
3 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.
You must make equipment for the altar: pots for ashes, and also shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans. You must make all these utensils with bronze.
4 And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
You must make a grate for the altar, a network of bronze. Make a bronze ring for each of the grate's four corners.
5 And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.
You must put the grate under the ledge of the altar, halfway down to the bottom.
6 And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
You must make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you must cover them with bronze.
7 And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
The poles must be put into the rings, and the poles must be on the two sides of the altar, to carry it.
8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
You must make the altar hollow, out of planks. You must make it in the way you were shown on the mountain.
9 And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.
You must make a courtyard for the tabernacle. There must be hangings on the south side of the courtyard, hangings of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long.
10 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.
The hangings must have twenty posts, with twenty bronze bases. There must also be hooks attached to the posts, as well as silver rods.
11 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.
Likewise along the north side, there must be hangings one hundred cubits long with twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, hooks attached to the posts, and silver rods.
12 And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
Along the courtyard on the west side there must be a curtain fifty cubits long. There must be ten posts and ten bases.
13 And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
The courtyard must also be fifty cubits long on the east side.
14 On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;
The hangings for one side of the entrance must be fifteen cubits long. They must have three posts with three bases.
15 And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.
The other side must also have hangings fifteen cubits long. They must have their three posts and three bases.
16 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.
The courtyard gate must be a curtain twenty cubits long. The curtain must be made of blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. It must have four posts with four bases.
17 All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.
All the courtyard posts must have silver rods, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
18 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.
The length of the courtyard must be one hundred cubits, the width fifty cubits, and the height five cubits with fine twined linen hangings all along, and bases of bronze.
19 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.
All the equipment to be used in the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and courtyard must be made of bronze.
20 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.
You must command the people of Israel to bring olive oil, pure and pressed, for the lamps so they may burn continually.
21 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.
In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the tabernacle that contains the ark of testimony, Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning before Yahweh, from evening to morning. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance throughout the generations of the people of Israel.
