Exodus 27

¹ ‘You are to make the altar out of acacia wood, a square five cubits long and five cubits wide, its height to be three cubits.

² At its four corners you are to put horns, the horns to be of one piece with it, plating it with bronze.

³ For the altar you are to make pans for the ashes from the fat, shovels, sprinkling basins, hooks, fire pans; you must make all the vessels for the altar out of bronze.

⁴ You are also to make a grating for it of bronze network, and on the four corners of this fix four bronze rings.

⁵ This grating you must set under the altar’s ledge, below, so that it reaches half-way up the altar.

⁶ And for the altar you are to make shafts of acacia wood and plate them with bronze.

⁷ These are to be passed through the rings, so that they are on either side of the altar when it is carried.

⁸ You are to make the altar hollow, of boards; you will make it in the way that was shown to you on the mountain.

⁹ ‘You are to make the court of the tabernacle. Facing the south country, on the southern side, the hangings of the court are to be of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits long for one side.

¹⁰ Their twenty bronze posts are to be set in twenty bronze sockets and to have their hooks and rods of silver.

¹¹ So too for the northern side there are to be hangings one hundred cubits long, and twenty posts set in twenty bronze sockets, with their hooks and rods of silver.

¹² Across the width of the court, on the western side, there are to be fifty cubits of hangings, carried on ten posts set in ten sockets.

¹³ The width of the court on the eastern side facing the sunrise is to be fifty cubits.

¹⁴ On one side of the gateway there are to be fifteen cubits of hangings, carried on three posts set in three sockets.

¹⁵ On the other side of the gateway there are also to be fifteen cubits of hangings, carried on three posts set in three sockets.

¹⁶ The gateway to the court is to consist of a screen twenty cubits wide made of purple stuffs, violet shade and red, of crimson stuffs and fine twined linen, the work of a skilled embroiderer, carried on four posts set in their four sockets.

¹⁷ All the posts enclosing the court are to be connected by silver rods; their hooks are to be of silver, their sockets of bronze.

¹⁸ The length of the court is to be one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, its height five cubits. All the hangings are to be made of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.

¹⁹ All the furnishings for whatever use in the tabernacle, all the pegs of it and of the court, must be of bronze.

²⁰ ‘You are to order the sons of Israel to bring you pure olive oil for the light, and to keep a flame burning there perpetually.

²¹ Aaron and his sons are to set this flame in the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is before the Testimony. It must burn there before Yahweh from evening to morning perpetually. This is an irrevocable ordinance for their descendants, to be kept by the sons of Israel.