1 You shall
make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide;
the altar shall be square, and it shall be three cubits high. 2 You
shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one
piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. 3 You shall make
pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and
firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze. 4 You shall also
make for it a grating, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall
make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5 You shall set it under the
ledge of the altar so that the net shall extend half-way down the altar.
6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay
them with bronze; 7 the poles shall be put through the rings, so that
the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8
You shall make it hollow, with boards. They shall be made just as you
were shown on the mountain.
9 You shall make the court of
the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine
twisted linen one hundred cubits long for that side; 10 its twenty
pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the
pillars and their bands shall be of silver. 11 Likewise, for its length
on the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, their
pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the
pillars and their bands shall be of silver. 12 For the width of the
court on the west side there shall be fifty cubits of hangings, with ten
pillars and ten bases. 13 The width of the court on the front to the
east shall be fifty cubits. 14 There shall be fifteen cubits of hangings
on one side, with three pillars and three bases. 15 There shall be
fifteen cubits of hangings on the other side, with three pillars and
three bases. 16 For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty
cubits long, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted
linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall have four pillars and with
them four bases. 17 All the pillars around the court shall be banded
with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases of bronze.
18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, the width fifty,
and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twisted linen and
bases of bronze. 19 All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use,
and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.
20 You shall further command
the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, so
that a lamp may be set up to burn regularly. 21 In the tent of meeting,
outside the curtain that is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons
shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a
perpetual ordinance to be observed throughout their generations by the
Israelites.
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