27:1 “Now you shall make the altar of acacia wood, ①five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be ②three cubits.
▷ ①About 7.5 ft. or 2.3 m ②About 4.5 ft. or 1.4 m
27:2 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with ①bronze.
▷ ①Or copper, and so for bronze throughout the ch
27:3 And you shall make its pails for removing its ashes, and its shovels, its basins, its forks, and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
27:4 You shall also make for it a grating, a netting of bronze, and on the netting you shall make four bronze rings ①at its four corners.
▷ ①Lit on
27:5 And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the netting will reach halfway up the altar.
27:6 You shall also make carrying poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood and overlay them with bronze.
27:7 Its poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.
27:8 You shall make it hollow with planks; as it was shown to you on the mountain, so they shall make it.
27:9 “Now you shall make the courtyard of the ①tabernacle. ②On the south side there shall be hangings for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, a ③hundred cubits long for one side;
▷ ①Or dwelling place ②Lit For the side of the Negev to the south ③About 150 ft. or 46 m
27:10 and its pillars shall be twenty, with their twenty bases of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their ①bands shall be of silver.
▷ ①Or rings
27:11 Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings a ①hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars with their twenty bases of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.
▷ ①About 150 ft. or 46 m
27:12 For the width of the courtyard on the west side shall be hangings of ①fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten bases.
▷ ①About 75 ft. or 23 m
27:13 The width of the courtyard on the ①east side shall be fifty cubits.
▷ ①Lit east side eastward
27:14 The hangings for the one ①side of the gate shall be ②fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.
▷ ①Lit shoulder ②About 23 ft. or 6.8 m
27:15 And for the ①other ②side there shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.
▷ ①Lit second ②Lit shoulder
27:16 And for the gate of the courtyard there shall be a curtain of ①twenty cubits, of ②violet, purple, and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a ③weaver, with their four pillars and their four bases.
▷ ①About 30 ft. or 9 m ②Or bluish; LXX hyacinth in color ③Lit variegator; i.e., a weaver in colors
27:17 All the pillars around the courtyard shall be joined together with silver, with their hooks of silver and their bases of bronze.
27:18 The length of the courtyard shall be a ①hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.
▷ ①About 150 ft. long, 75 ft. wide, and 7.5 ft. high or about 46 m, 23 m, and 2.3 m
27:19 All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the courtyard, shall be of bronze.
27:20 “And you shall command the sons of Israel that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the ①light, to make a lamp ②burn continually.
▷ ①Or luminary ②Lit ascend
27:21 In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD; it shall be a permanent statute throughout their generations ①for the sons of Israel.
▷ ①Lit from