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The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">The Courtyard<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/38.htm#9">Exodus 38:9–20</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> on one side, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> with ten posts and ten bases. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> with three posts and three bases, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> and with bronze bases. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze. <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">The Oil for the Lamps<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../leviticus/24.htm">Leviticus 24:1–4</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/27-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> The altar was approximately 7.5 feet in length and width, and 4.5 feet high (2.3 meters in length and width, and 1.4 meters high).<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>100 cubits</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 150 feet or 45.7 meters; also in verse 11.<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>50 cubits</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 75 feet or 22.9 meters; also in verse 13.<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <i>15 cubits</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 22.5 feet or 6.9 meters; also in verse 15.<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <i>20 cubits</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 30 feet or 9.1 meters.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> The courtyard was approximately 150 feet long and 75 feet wide (45.7 meters long and 22.9 meters wide).<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <i>5 cubits</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 7.5 feet or 2.3 meters.<br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <i>The Testimony</i><span class="thin"> </span> refers to the stone tablets in the ark of the covenant inscribed with the Ten Commandments.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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