Exodus 27

1 And you shall make an altar of incorruptible wood, of five cubits in the length, and five cubits in the breadth; the altar shall be square, and the height of it shall be of three cubits.

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

2 And you shall make the horns on the four corners; the horns shall be of the same piece, and you shall overlay them with brass.

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

3 And you shall make a rim for the altar; and its covering and its cups, and its flesh hooks, and its fire-pan, and all its vessels shall you make of brass.

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

4 And you shall make for it a brazen grate with network; and you shall make for the grate four brazen rings under the four sides.

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

5 And you shall put them below under the grate of the altar, and the grate shall extend to the middle of the altar.

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

6 And you shall make for the altar staves of incorruptible wood, and you shall overlay them with brass.

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

7 And you shall put the staves into the rings; and let the staves be on the sides of the altar to carry it.

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

8 You shall make it hollow with boards: according to what was showed you in the mount, so you shall make it.

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

9 And you shall make a court for the tabernacle, curtains of the court of fine linen spun on the south side, the length of a hundred cubits for one side.

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,

10 And their pillars twenty, and twenty brazen sockets for them, and their rings and their clasps of silver.

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

11 Thus [shall there be] to the side towards the north curtains of a hundred cubits in length; and their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass, and the rings and the clasps of the pillars, and their sockets overlaid with silver.

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.

12 And in the breadth of the tabernacle towards the west curtains of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten.

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

13 And in the breadth of the tabernacle towards the south, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

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

14 And the height of the curtains [shall be] of fifty cubits for the one side [of the gate]; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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

15 And [for] the second side the height of the curtains [shall be] of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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

16 And a veil for the door of the court, the height [of it] of twenty cubits of blue linen, and of purple, and spun scarlet, and of fine linen spun with the are of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

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.

17 All the pillars of the court round about overlaid with silver, and their chapiters silver and their brass sockets.

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

18 And the length of the court [shall be] a hundred [cubits] on each side, and the breadth fifty on each side, and the height five cubits of fine linen spun, and their sockets of brass.

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.

19 And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court [shall be] of brass.

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.

20 And do you charge the children of Israel, and let them take for you refined pure olive-oil beaten to burn for light, that a lamp may burn continually

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

21 in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is before the [ark of the] covenant, shall Aaron and his sons burn it from evening until morning, before the Lord: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the children of Israel.

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.