Exodus 27

1Make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar is to be square, and it is to be three cubits high.

2Make horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece with it. Then overlay it with bronze.

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

4Make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and make four bronze rings on the network at its four corners.

5Put the grating under the ledge of the altar, so that the network reaches halfway up the altar.

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

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

8Make the altar hollow, out of boards. They are to make it just as you were shown on the mountain.

9Make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side the courtyard is to have hangings of finely twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for that side,

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

11In the same way, on the north side there are to be hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

12Across the width of the courtyard on the west side there are to be hangings fifty cubits long, with ten posts and ten bases.

13The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits.

14Hangings fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases,

15and hangings fifteen cubits long on the other side, with three posts and three bases.

16For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and four bases.

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

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

19All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its tent pegs and all the tent pegs of the courtyard, are to be made of bronze.

20You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that a lamp may be kept burning continually.

21In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is in front of the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to keep it in order before Yahweh from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.