Exodus 27

1 Make an altar of acacia wood. It is to be square and measure five cubits long by five cubits wide by 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 Make horns for each of its corners, all one piece with the altar, and cover the whole altar with bronze.

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

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 Make a bronze mesh grate for it with a bronze ring on each of its corners.

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 Put the grate under the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway down the altar.

You must put the grate under the ledge of the altar, halfway down to the bottom.

6 Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and cover them with bronze.

You must make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you must cover them with bronze.

7 The poles are to be placed in the rings so that the poles are on either side of the altar when it is carried.

The poles must be put into the rings, and the poles must be on the two sides of the altar, to carry it.

8 Make the altar hollow, using boards, just as you were shown 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 Make a courtyard for the Tabernacle. For the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely-spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

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

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 Similarly there are to be curtains placed on the north side in an identical arrangement.

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 The curtains for the west side of the courtyard are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten stands.

Along the courtyard on the west side there must be a curtain fifty cubits long. There must be ten posts and ten bases.

13 The east side of the courtyard that faces the sunrise is to be fifty cubits wide.

The courtyard must also be fifty cubits long on the east side.

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

The hangings for one side of the entrance must be fifteen cubits long. They must have three posts with three bases.

15 and the curtains on the other side just the same.

The other side must also have hangings fifteen cubits long. They must have their three posts and three bases.

16 The entrance to the courtyard is to be twenty cubits wide, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and crimson thread, and finely-spun linen, held up by four posts and four stands.

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 posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze stands.

All the courtyard posts must have silver rods, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

18 The whole courtyard is to be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains made of finely-spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze stands.

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 rest of the equipment used in the Tabernacle, including its tent pegs and those for the courtyard, are to be made of bronze.

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 You are to order the Israelites to bring you pure, hand-pressed olive oil for the lamps so they can go on burning, giving light.

You must command the people of Israel to bring olive oil, pure and pressed, for the lamps so they may burn continually.

21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning in the Lord's presence from evening until morning. This requirement is to be observed by the Israelites for all generations.

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.