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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 27
1 “You shall make the altar of acacia
wood, five cubits† long, and five cubits
wide. The altar shall be square. Its height
shall be three cubits.‡
2 You shall make its horns on its four
corners. Its horns shall be of one piece
with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
3 You shall make its pots to take away its
ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat
hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all
its vessels of bronze.
4 You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On
the net you shall make
four bronze rings in its four corners.
5 You shall put it under the ledge around
the altar beneath, that the net may reach
halfway up the altar.
6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles
of acacia wood, and overlay them with
bronze.
7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and
the poles shall be on the two sides of the
altar when carrying it.
8 You shall make it hollow with planks.
They shallmake it as ithasbeenshownyou
on the mountain.
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.
10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their
sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks ofthe
pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
11 Likewise for the length of the north
side, there shall be hangings one hundred
cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and
their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks
of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
12 For the width of the court on the west
side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
13 The width of the court on the east side
eastward shall be fifty cubits.
14 The hangings for the one side of the
gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars
three, and their sockets three.
15 For the other side shall be hangings of
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
sockets three.
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.
17 All the pillars ofthe court around shall
be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver,
and their sockets of bronze.
18 The length of the court shall be
one hundred cubits, and the width fifty
throughout, and the height five cubits,
of fine twined linen, and their sockets of
bronze.
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 bronze.
20 “You shall command the children of
Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil
beatenfor the light,to cause a lamptoburn
continually.
21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil
which is before the covenant, Aaron and
his sons shall keep itin order from evening
to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a
statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf ofthe children ofIsrael.
† 27:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46
centimeters. ‡ 27:1 The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.
Word English Bible
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