Exodus 27

Berean Standard Bible

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God instructs Moses to build a hollow bronze-overlaid acacia altar with specific dimensions, horns, utensils, a bronze mesh grate, and carrying poles. The text details the construction of the courtyard for the tabernacle, including exact measurements, linen curtains, posts with silver hooks and bands, and bronze bases for the north, south, west, and east sides. A twenty-cubit embroidered gate with four posts and bases is prescribed for the courtyard entrance, alongside instructions that all tabernacle utensils and tent pegs be made of bronze. Finally, the Israelites are commanded to supply pure pressed olive oil so that Aaron and his sons can keep the lamps burning continually in the Tent of Meeting outside the veil.

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¹“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high. ²Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze. ³Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans. ⁴Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh. ⁵Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar. ⁶Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. ⁷The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. ⁸Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain. ⁹You 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 on one side, ¹⁰with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts. ¹¹Likewise 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. ¹²The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases. ¹³The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide. ¹⁴Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases, ¹⁵and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases. ¹⁶The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases. ¹⁷All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases. ¹⁸The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases. ¹⁹All 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. ²⁰And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. ²¹In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, 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.

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