The Bronze Altar
27 1 Make the altar of acacia wood: seven and a half feet long, seven and a half feet wide, square, and four and a half feet high. 2 Make horns on its four corners, horns of one piece with it; overlay it with bronze. 3 Make pots to clear its ashes, shovels, basins, forks, and firepans; make all its utensils bronze. 4 Make for it a grating, a bronze net; 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 Put the poles through the rings, on the two sides of the altar, to carry it. 8 Make it hollow, with boards, as shown to you on the mountain—so they shall make it.
The Courtyard
9 Make the tabernacle's courtyard: curtains of finely twisted linen on the south side, about a hundred fifty feet long for that side. 10 Twenty posts with twenty bronze bases; the posts' hooks and bands, silver. 11 On the north side too, curtains a hundred fifty feet long, with twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts. 12 For the courtyard's west width: curtains seventy-five feet long, ten posts, ten bases. 13 The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be about seventy-five feet. 14 Curtains for one side of the gate: about twenty-two and a half feet, with three posts and three bases. 15 On the other side, curtains twenty-two and a half feet, three posts, three bases. 16 The courtyard gate's screen: thirty feet, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn with finely twisted linen, embroidered, with four posts and four bases. 17 All posts around the courtyard: banded with silver, hooks silver, bases bronze. 18 The courtyard: about a hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide throughout, seven and a half feet high — fine twisted linen, bronze bases. 19 All the tabernacle's equipment, whatever its use, all its pegs, and the courtyard's pegs—all of bronze.
Oil for the Continual Lamp
20 Command the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually. 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before our Father — a lasting statute for their generations, on behalf of the Israelites. a a v21 'The testimony' refers to the stone tablets of the law kept inside the Ark of the Covenant.
