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.

'And thou hast made the altar of shittim wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth — the altar is square — and three cubits its height.

2 Make horns for each of its corners, all one piece with the altar, and cover the whole altar with bronze.

And thou hast made its horns on its four corners, its horns are of the same, and thou hast overlaid it [with] brass.

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

And thou hast made its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels, and its bowls, and its forks, and its fire-pans, even all its vessels thou dost make of brass.

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

'And thou hast made for it a grate of net-work of brass, and hast made on the net four rings of brass on its four extremities,

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

and hast put it under the compass of the altar beneath, and the net hath been unto the middle of the altar.

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

'And thou hast made staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] brass.

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.

And the staves have been brought into the rings, and the staves have been on the two sides of the altar in bearing it.

8 Make the altar hollow, using boards, just as you were shown on the mountain.

Hollow with boards thou dost make it, as it hath been shewed thee in the mount, so do they make [it].

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,

'And thou hast made the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward, hangings for the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit [is] the length for the one side,

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

and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [are] of brass, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets [are] of silver;

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

and so for the north side in length, hangings of a hundred [cubits] in length, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [are] of brass, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets [are] of silver.

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

'And [for] the breadth of the court at the west side [are] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

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

And [for] the breadth of the court at the east side, eastward, [are] fifty cubits.

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

And the hangings at the side [are] fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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

And at the second side [are] hangings fifteen [cubits], their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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.

'And for the gate of the court a covering of twenty cubits, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of an embroiderer; their pillars four, their sockets four.

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

All the pillars of the court round about [are] filleted [with] silver, their pegs [are] silver, and their sockets brass.

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 court [is] a hundred by the cubit, and the breadth fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, of twined linen, and their sockets [are] brass,

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.

even all the vessels of the tabernacle, in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, [are] brass.

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.

'And thou — thou dost command the sons of Israel, and they bring unto thee pure beaten olive oil for the light, to cause the lamp to go up 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, at the outside of the vail, which [is] over the testimony, doth Aaron — his sons also — arrange it from evening till morning before Jehovah — a statute age-during to their generations, from the sons of Israel.