Exodus 27

Modern

Literal

The Bronze Altar

¹“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.^a

¹“ And you shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and three cubits its height.

²Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

²And you shall make its horns on its four corners; from it shall be its horns, and you shall 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.

³And you shall make its pots for removing its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its forks, and its firepans; even all its vessels you shall make of bronze.

⁴Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

⁴And you shall make for it a grate of work of net of bronze; and you shall make on the net four bronze rings on its four ends.

⁵Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

⁵And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar from below, and the net shall be up to the middle of the altar.

⁶Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

⁶And you shall 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.

⁷And the poles shall be brought into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it.

⁸Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

⁸Hollow, of boards, you shall make it; as it was shown you on the mountain; so shall they make it.

The Courtyard

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^a on one side,

⁹And you shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side, southward, hangings for the court of finely woven linen, a hundred by the cubit the length for the one side.

¹⁰with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

¹⁰And its twenty pillars, their twenty bases are of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands are silver.

¹¹Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

¹¹And likewise along the north side in length, hangings a hundred cubits long, and with its twenty pillars and their twenty bases of bronze. And the hooks of the pillars and their bands are of silver.

¹²The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide,^a with ten posts and ten bases.

¹²And along the width of the court on the west side, hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten bases.

¹³The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.

¹³And the width of the court on the east side toward the sunrise is fifty cubits.

¹⁴Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long,^a with three posts and three bases,

¹⁴And the hangings on one side are five and ten cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.

¹⁵and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.

¹⁵And on the second side are hangings five and ten cubits, with their three pillars, and their three bases.

¹⁶The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long,^a with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

¹⁶And for the gate of the court is a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen, the work of a weaver; with its four pillars and its four bases.

¹⁷All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.

¹⁷All the pillars around the court shall have bands of silver, with their hooks of silver and their bases of bronze.

¹⁸The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,^a with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high,^b and with bronze bases.

¹⁸The length of the court is a hundred by the cubit, and the width fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, of finely woven linen, and their bases of bronze.

¹⁹All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.

¹⁹For all the vessels of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court are of bronze.

The Oil for the Lamps

²⁰And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

²⁰And you shall command the sons of Israel, and they shall bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually.

²¹In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony,^a Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.

²¹In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is over the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall arrange it from evening until morning before the face of YHWH; it shall be a statute forever for their generations with the sons of Israel.