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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 27 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/27.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/27-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Exodus 27</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/26.htm" title="Exodus 26">◄</a> Exodus 27 <a href="../exodus/28.htm" title="Exodus 28">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Altar for Offering Sacrifices</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 38:1-7">Exodus 38.1-7</ref>)</h5><h5 class="sp">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Moses:</h5><p class="par"><span class="v1_27_1"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.1" class="v1_27_1">1</span>Use acacia wood to build an altar 2.25 meters square and 1.34 meters high, </span><span class="v1_27_2"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.2" class="v1_27_2">2</span>and make each of the four top corners stick up like the horn of a bull. Then cover the whole altar with bronze, including the four horns. </span><span class="v1_27_3"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.3" class="v1_27_3">3</span>All the equipment for the altar must also be made of bronze—the pans for the hot ashes, the shovels, the sprinkling bowls, the meat forks, and the fire pans. </span><span class="v1_27_4"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.4-Exod.27.5" class="v1_27_4">4-5</span>Halfway up the altar build a ledge around it, and cover the bottom half of the altar with a decorative bronze grating. Then attach a bronze ring beneath the ledge at the four corners of the altar. </span><span class="v1_27_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.6-Exod.27.7" class="v1_27_6">6-7</span>Cover two acacia wood poles with bronze and put them through the rings for carrying the altar. </span><span class="v1_27_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.8" class="v1_27_8">8</span>Construct the altar in the shape of an open box, just as you were shown on the mountain.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Courtyard around the Sacred Tent</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 38:9-20">Exodus 38.9-20</ref>)</h5><h5 class="sp">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said:</h5><p class="par"><span class="v1_27_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.9-Exod.27.15" class="v1_27_9">9-15</span>Surround the sacred tent with a courtyard 44 meters long on the south and north and 22 meters wide on the east and west. Use 20 bronze posts on bronze stands for the south and north and 10 for the west. Then hang a curtain of fine linen on the posts along each of these three sides by using silver hooks and rods.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_27_9">Place three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hang a curtain 6.67 meters wide on each set of posts. </span><span class="v1_27_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.16" class="v1_27_16">16</span>Use four more of these posts for the entrance way, then hang on them an embroidered curtain of fine linen nine meters long and woven with blue, purple, and red wool.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_27_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.17-Exod.27.18" class="v1_27_17">17-18</span>Make the curtains that surround the courtyard 2.25 meters high and hang them from the bronze posts with silver hooks and rods. </span><span class="v1_27_19"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.19" class="v1_27_19">19</span>Make the rest of the equipment for the sacred tent of bronze, including the pegs for the tent and for the curtain surrounding the courtyard.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Oil for the Lamp in the Holy Place</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LEV 24:1-4">Leviticus 24.1-4</ref>)</h5><h5 class="sp">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Moses:</h5><p class="par"><span class="v1_27_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.20" class="v1_27_20">20</span>Command the people of Israel to supply you with the purest olive oil. Do this so the lamp will keep burning </span><span class="v1_27_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.27.21" class="v1_27_21">21</span>in front of the curtain that separates the holy place from the most holy place, where the sacred chest is kept. Aaron and his sons are responsible for keeping the lamp burning every night in the sacred tent. The Israelites must always obey this command.</span></p> </div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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