Exodus 27

27 ¹ Make the altar of acacia wood, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide—the altar shall be square—and four and a half feet high.

Horns, Grating, and Poles

² Make horns on its four corners, the horns of one piece with it, and overlay it with bronze. ³ Make pots to remove its ashes, and shovels, basins, forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze. ⁴ Make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net make four bronze rings at its four corners. ⁵ Set it under the ledge of the altar, so that the net reaches halfway up the altar. ⁶ Make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. ⁷ The poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. ⁸ Make it hollow, with boards. As it was shown to you on the mountain, so they shall make it.

The Courtyard

⁹ Make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side the courtyard shall have curtains of finely twisted linen, about a hundred and fifty feet long for that side,

Posts, Hangings, and the Gate

¹⁰ with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases; the hooks of the posts and their bands shall be of silver. ¹¹ Likewise for the north side, the curtains shall be about a hundred and fifty feet long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases; the hooks of the posts and their bands shall be of silver. ¹² For the width of the courtyard on the west side there shall be curtains about seventy-five feet long, with ten posts and ten bases. ¹³ The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be about seventy-five feet. ¹⁴ The curtains for one side of the gate shall be about twenty-two and a half feet, with three posts and three bases. ¹⁵ On the other side there shall also be curtains about twenty-two and a half feet, with three posts and three bases. ¹⁶ For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen about thirty feet long, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, embroidered with needlework, with four posts and four bases. ¹⁷ All the posts around the courtyard shall be banded with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases of bronze. ¹⁸ The length of the courtyard shall be about a hundred and fifty feet, the width about seventy-five feet throughout, and the height about seven and a half feet, of finely twisted linen, with bases of bronze. ¹⁹ All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the courtyard, shall be of bronze.

Oil for the Continual Lamp

²⁰ You shall command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually.

Aaron and His Sons Before Our Father

²¹ In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before our Father. It shall be a lasting statute throughout their generations on behalf of the Israelites. ¹ 1 v21 'The testimony' refers to the stone tablets of the law kept inside the Ark of the Covenant.