Exodus 27
27
The Altar of Burnt Offering
1“You # 27:1–8 Ex 38:1–7; Ezk 43:13 are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, 7 1/2 feet long, and 7 1/2 feet wide; # 27:1 Lit five cubits in length and five cubits in width it must be 4 1/2 feet high. # 27:1 Lit wide; and its height three cubits 2Make horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece. # 27:2 Lit piece with it Overlay it with bronze. # 27:2 Nm 16:38; Ps 118:27 3Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze. 4Construct a grate for it of bronze mesh, and make four bronze rings on the mesh at its four corners. 5Set it below, under the altar’s ledge, # 27:5 Perhaps a ledge around the altar on which the priests could stand; Lv 9:22 so that the mesh comes halfway up # 27:5 Or altar’s rim, so that the grid comes halfway down the altar. 6Then make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, 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. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain. # 27:8 Ex 25:40; 26:30
The Courtyard
9“You # 27:9–19 Ex 38:9–20 are to make the courtyard for the tabernacle. Make hangings for the south side of the courtyard out of finely spun linen, 150 feet # 27:9 Lit 100 cubits, also in v. 11 long on that side 10including twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and silver bands # 27:10 Or connecting rods, also in v. 11 for the posts. 11And so make hangings 150 feet long for the north side, including twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and silver bands for the posts. 12For the width of the courtyard, make hangings 75 feet # 27:12 Lit 50 cubits, also in v. 13 long for the west side, including their ten posts and their ten bases. 13And for the width of the courtyard on the east side toward the sunrise, 75 feet, 14make hangings 22 1/2 feet # 27:14 Lit 15 cubits, also in v. 15 long for one side of the gate, including their three posts and their three bases. 15And make hangings 22 1/2 feet long for the other side, including their three posts and their three bases. 16The gate of the courtyard is to have a 30-foot # 27:16 Lit 20-cubit screen # 27:16 Ex 35:17; 38:18; 39:40; 40:8,33; Nm 3:26; 4:26 embroidered # 27:16 Or woven with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It is to have four posts and their four bases.
17“All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases. 18The courtyard is to be 150 feet long, 75 feet wide at each end, and 7 1/2 feet high, # 27:18 Lit be 100 by the cubit, and the width 50 by 50, and the height five cubits all of it made of finely spun linen. The bases of the posts are to be bronze. 19All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.
The Lampstand Oil
20“You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning regularly. 21In the tent of meeting outside the curtain that is in front of the testimony, # 27:21 Ex 30:8; 1Sm 3:3; 2Ch 13:11 Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp # 27:21 Ex 26:31,33; 28:43 from evening until morning before the Lord. This is to be a permanent statute # 27:21 Ex 29:9; Lv 3:17; 16:34; Nm 18:23; 19:21 for the Israelites throughout their generations.
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Exodus 27
27
The altar for offering sacrifices
(Exodus 38.1-7)
The LORD said to Moses:
1Use acacia wood to build an altar two and a quarter metres square and one and a third metres high, 2and make each of the four top corners stick up like the horn of a bull. Then cover the whole altar with bronze, including the four horns. 3All the equipment for the altar must also be made of bronze—the pans for the hot ashes, the shovels, the sprinkling bowls, the meat forks, and the fire pans. 4-5Half-way up the altar build a ledge around it, and cover the bottom half of the altar with a decorative bronze grating. Then attach a bronze ring beneath the ledge at the four corners of the altar. 6-7Cover two acacia wood poles with bronze and put them through the rings for carrying the altar. 8Construct the altar in the shape of an open box, just as you were shown on the mountain.
The courtyard around the sacred tent
(Exodus 38.9-20)
The LORD said:
9-15Surround the sacred tent with a courtyard forty-four metres long on the south and north and twenty-two metres wide on the east and west. Use twenty bronze posts on bronze stands for the south and north and ten for the west. Then hang a curtain of fine linen on the posts along each of these three sides by using silver hooks and rods.
Place three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hang a curtain six and two thirds metres wide on each set of posts. 16Use four more of these posts for the entrance way, then hang on them an embroidered curtain of fine linen nine metres long and woven with blue, purple, and red wool.
17-18The curtains that surround the courtyard must be two and a quarter metres high and are to be hung from the bronze posts with silver hooks and rods. 19The rest of the equipment for the sacred tent must be made of bronze, including the pegs for the tent and for the curtain surrounding the courtyard.
The oil for the lamp in the holy place
(Leviticus 24.1-4)
The LORD said to Moses:
20Command the people of Israel to supply you with the purest olive oil. Do this so the lamp will keep burning 21in front of the curtain that separates the holy place from the most holy place, where the sacred chest is kept. Aaron and his sons are responsible for keeping the lamp burning every night in the sacred tent. The Israelites must always obey this command.
Instructions for priests, sacrifices, and the Sabbath
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