Exodus 27

Revised Geneva Translation

27 “Moreover, you shall make the Altar of shittim wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad (the altar shall be square) and the height thereof three cubits

² “And you shall make horns for it in its four corners. The horns shall be made of the same wood; and you shall cover it with copper.

³ “Also, you shall make its ash pans for its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its fleshhooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its instruments of copper.

⁴ “And you shall make a grate for it, a network of copper. Upon that grate you shall also make four copper rings, on its four corners.

⁵ “And you shall put it under the edge of the altar beneath, so that the grate may be in the midst of the altar.

⁶ “Also, you shall make poles for the altar (poles of shittim wood) and shall cover them with copper.

⁷ “And its poles shall be put in the rings, to bear it. The poles shall be upon the two sides of the altar.

⁸ “You shall make the altar hollow between the boards. As God showed you on the mount, so shall they make it.

⁹ “Also, you shall make the court of the Tabernacle on the south side. The court shall have curtains of fine-twined linen on one side, a hundred cubits long.

¹⁰ “And it shall have twenty pillars, with their twenty pedestals of copper. The hooks of the pillars, and their bands, shall be silver.

¹¹ “Likewise, for the whole length of the north side, there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, as well as its twenty pillars with their twenty pedestals of copper. The hooks of the pillars, and the bands, shall be silver.

¹² “And on the west side, the breadth of the court shall have curtains of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten pedestals.

¹³ “And the breadth of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits.

¹⁴ “Also, hangings of fifteen cubits shall be on one side, with their three pillars and their three pedestals.

¹⁵ Likewise, on the other side, shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three pedestals.

¹⁶ “And in the gate of the court shall be a veil of twenty cubits of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-twined linen, expertly woven, with its four pillars and their four sockets.

¹⁷ “All the pillars of the court shall have bands of silver all around, with their hooks of silver and their pedestals of copper.

¹⁸ “The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty, (at either end) and the height five cubits; and the hangings shall be made of fine-twined linen and their sockets of copper.

¹⁹ “All the vessels of the Tabernacle (for all manner of its service), and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court shall be copper.

²⁰ “And you shall command the children of Israel to bring to you pure oil of pressed olive for the light, so that the lamps may always burn.

²¹ “In the Tabernacle of the Congregation, outside the veil which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep order before the LORD from evening to morning, as an everlasting statute to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.