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.

And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

And on the east side the space 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.

On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars 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 on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars 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.

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

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

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

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 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

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 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.

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.