CHAPTER 27
You are to build
an altar
of acacia
wood.
The altar
must be
square,
five
cubits
long,
five
cubits
wide,
and three
cubits
high.
Make
a horn
on each of
its four
corners,
so that the horns
are
of one piece,
and overlay
it with bronze.
Make
all
its utensils
of bronze—
the pots
for removing ashes,
and the shovels,
basins,
meat forks,
and firepans.
Construct
for it
a grate
of bronze
mesh,
and make a
bronze
ring
at
each of the four
corners
of
the mesh.
The poles
are to be inserted
into the rings
so that the poles
are
on
two
sides
of the altar
when it is carried.
Construct
the altar
with boards
so that it is hollow.
It is to be made
just as
you were shown
on the mountain.
You are also to make
a courtyard
for the tabernacle.
On the south side
of the courtyard
make curtains
of finely spun
linen,
a hundred
cubits
long
on one
side,
Likewise
there are to be curtains
on the north
side,
a hundred
cubits
long,
with twenty
posts
and twenty
bronze
bases,
and with silver
hooks
and bands
on the posts.
The curtains
on the west
side
of the courtyard
shall be fifty
cubits
wide,
with ten
posts
and ten
bases.
The gate
of the courtyard
shall be twenty
cubits long,
with a curtain
embroidered
with blue,
purple,
and scarlet yarn,
and finely spun
linen.
It shall have four
posts
and four
bases.
The entire
courtyard
shall be a hundred
cubits
long
and fifty cubits
wide,
with curtains of finely spun
linen,
five
cubits
high,
and with bronze
bases.
All
the utensils
of the tabernacle
for every
use,
including all
its tent pegs
and
the tent pegs
of the courtyard,
shall be made of bronze.
And you
are to command
the Israelites
to bring
you pure
oil
of pressed
olives
for the light,
to keep the lamps
burning
continually.
In the Tent
of Meeting,
outside
the veil
that
is in front of
the Testimony,
Aaron
and his sons
are to tend
the lamps
before
the LORD
from evening
until
morning.
This is to be a perpetual
statute
for the Israelites
throughout
their generations.