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.

Make an altar of acacia wood. It is to be square and measure five cubits long by five cubits wide by 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 horns for each of its corners, all one piece with the altar, and cover the whole altar 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: buckets for removing ashes, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and 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.

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

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

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

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

Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and cover 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 placed in the rings so that the poles are on either side 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.

Make the altar hollow, using boards, 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.

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,

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 stands, with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

11 Thus [shall there be] to the side toward 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.

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

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

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

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

The east side of the courtyard that faces 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 stands,

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 just the same.

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 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.

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 are to have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze stands.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.