Chapter 27
1[“] You are to build an altar of acacia wood five cubits long, five cubits wide. The altar must be square 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 ring of bronze at each of the four corners of the mesh.
5Set [the grate] beneath the ledge of the altar so that the mesh comes up halfway 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.
8It is to be made so that it is hollow with boards. Construct the altar 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 on the north side [there are to be] curtains a hundred [cubits] long with twenty bases 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 with blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely spun linen. It shall have four bases and four embroidered posts.
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 and with bronze bases [with curtains] of finely spun linen five cubits high.
19All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use including all its 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 from evening until morning before AO. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.[”]