The altar; and the court of the tabernacle with its hangings and
pillars. Provision of oil for lamps.
27:1. Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five
cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits
high.
27:2. And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou
shalt cover it with brass.
27:3. And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the
ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou
shalt make of brass.
27:4. And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at the four corners of
which, shall be four rings of brass,
27:5. Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate
shall be even to the midst of the altar.
27:6. Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar, of setim wood, which
thou shalt cover with plates of brass:
27:7. And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both
sides of the altar to carry it.
27:8. Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside,
as it was shewn thee in the mount.
27:9. Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south
side whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of
a hundred cubits long for one side.
27:10. And twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the heads of
which, with their engraving, shall be of silver.
27:11. In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of
a hundred cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass, and
their heads with their engraving of silver.
27:12. But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there
shall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many sockets.
27:13. In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east,
there shall be fifty cubits.
27:14. In which there shall be for one side, hangings of fifteen cubits,
and three pillars, and as many sockets.
27:15. And in the other side, there shall be hangings of fifteen cubits,
with three pillars, and as many sockets.
27:16. And in the entrance of the court there shall be made a hanging of
twenty cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine
twisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars, with
as many sockets.
27:17. All the pillars of the court round about shall be garnished with
plates of silver, silver heads, and sockets of brass.
27:18. In length the court shall take up a hundred cubits, in breadth
fifty, the height shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of fine
twisted linen, and shall have sockets of brass.
27:19. All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies,
and the pins both of it and of the court, thou shalt make of brass.
27:20. Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest
oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn
always,
27:21. In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs
before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may
give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual
observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.