Exodus 27

Chapter 27

The Bronze Altar

¹“And you shall make ^athe altar of acacia wood, five ¹cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.

²“You shall make ^aits horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with ¹bronze.

³“You shall make its pails for removing its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

⁴“You shall make for it a grating of network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings ¹at its four corners.

⁵“You shall put it beneath, under the ledge of the altar, so that the net will reach halfway up the altar.

⁶“You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

⁷“Its poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar ^awhen it is carried.

⁸“You shall make it hollow with planks; ^aas it was shown to you in the mountain, so they shall make it.

Court of the Tabernacle

⁹“You shall make ^athe court of the ¹tabernacle. ²On the south side there shall be hangings for the court of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long for one side;

¹⁰and its pillars shall be twenty, with their twenty ¹sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their ²bands shall be of silver.

¹¹“Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars with their twenty ¹sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

¹²“For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten ¹sockets.

¹³“The width of the court on the ¹east side shall be fifty cubits.

¹⁴“The hangings for the one ¹side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three ²sockets.

¹⁵“And for the ¹other ²side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three ³sockets.

¹⁶“For the gate of the court there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of ¹blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a ²weaver, with their four pillars and their four ³sockets.

¹⁷“All the pillars around the court shall be furnished with silver bands with their hooks of silver and their ¹sockets of bronze.

¹⁸“The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their ¹sockets of bronze.

¹⁹“All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.

²⁰“You shall charge the sons of Israel, that they bring you ^aclear oil of beaten olives for the ¹light, to make a lamp ²burn continually.

²¹“In the ^atent of meeting, outside ^bthe veil which is before the testimony, ^cAaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord; it shall be a perpetual ^dstatute throughout their generations ¹for the sons of Israel.