Exodus 27

1 And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its hight [shall be] 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 thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: its horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

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

3 And thou shalt make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans: all its vessels thou shalt make [of] brass.

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

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of net-work of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in its four corners.

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

5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

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

6 And thou shalt make staffs for the altar, staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

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

7 And the staffs shall be put into the rings, and the staffs shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear 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 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shown thee on the mount, so shall they make [it].

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

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of a hundred cubits long 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 its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver.

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

11 And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of a hundred [cubits] long, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.

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

12 And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings 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 the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits.

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

14 The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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

15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings, fifteen [cubits]: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

and the curtains on the other side just the same.

16 And for the gate of the court [shall be] a hanging of twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needle-work: [and] their pillars [shall be] 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 around the court [shall be] filleted with silver: their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.

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

18 The length of the court [shall be] a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the hight five cubits [of] fine twined linen, 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 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all 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 thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring the pure olive-oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

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 congregation without the vail, which [is] before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: [It shall be] a statute for ever to their generations on the behalf 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.