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Exodus  Chapter 27    Back    Next

{27:1} "You shall make the altar
of acacia
wood, five cubits
long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.

{27:2} You shall make its horns
on its four corners
; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass
.

{27:3} You shall make its pots to take away its ashes
, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks
, and its fire
pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.

{27:4} You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.

{27:5} You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

{27:6} You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

{27:7} Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it.

{27:8} You shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

{27:9} "You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings
for the court of fine twined linen
one hundred cubits long for one side:

{27:10} and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets
shall be of silver.

{27:11} Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

{27:12} For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

{27:13} The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

{27:14} The hangings for the one side of the gate
shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

{27:15} For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

{27:16} For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue
, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer
; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

{27:17} All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

{27:18} The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

{27:19} All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

{27:20} "You shall command the children of Israel
, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp
to burn continually.

{27:21} In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron
and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Exodus  Chapter 27    Back    Next