Exodus 27

¹ "Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.

² Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.

³ Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

⁴ Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of its four corners.

⁵ Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it reaches halfway up the altar.

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

⁷ The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

⁸ Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

⁹ "Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side is to be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen,

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

¹¹ The north side is to be the same: a hundred cubits long, with curtains, twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

¹² "The west end of the courtyard is to be fifty cubits wide, with curtains and ten posts and ten bases.

¹³ On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard is also to be fifty cubits wide.

¹⁴ On one side of the entrance there are to be fifteen cubits of curtains, with three posts and three bases,

¹⁵ and on the other side fifteen cubits of curtains, with three posts and three bases.

¹⁶ "For the entrance to the courtyard, make a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.

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

¹⁸ The courtyard is to be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.

¹⁹ All the other articles used in the tabernacle, whatever their purpose, including all its tent pegs and those of the courtyard, are to be of bronze.

²⁰ "Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.

²¹ In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.