Exodus 27

1 Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long and as many broad, that is, foursquare, 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 And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

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

3 And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt 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 a grate of brass in manner of a net: at the four corners of which shall be four rings of brass,

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

5 Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate shall be even to the midst of the altar.

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

6 Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar of setim wood, which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:

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

7 And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both 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 Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.

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

9 Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south side whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits long 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 twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the heads of which with their engraving 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 In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass, and their heads with their engraving of 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 But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many sockets.

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

13 In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east, there shall be fifty cubits.

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

14 In which there shall be for one side hangings of fifteen cubits, and three pillars and as many sockets.

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

15 And in the other side there shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars and as many sockets.

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

16 And in the entrance of the court there shall be made a hanging of twenty cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars with as many sockets.

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 shall be garnished with plates of silver, silver heads and sockets of brass.

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

18 In length the court shall take up a hundred cubits, in breadth fifty, the height shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of fine twisted linen, and shall have 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 All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies, and the pins both of it, and of the court, thou shalt make 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 Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn always,

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 hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among 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.