Open English Translation EXO Chapter 27

27 Make an altar from acacia wood that’s 2.5m square and 1.5m high 2 and as part of that same piece of wood, include a carved projection like a horn on each of the top corners of the altar. Overlay the altar with bronze. 3 Make pots for the ashes out of bronze, along with the necessary shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and fire-trays. 4 Then make a bronze grating for it with four rings of bronze on the four corners. 5 Fit it down onto a ledge inside the altar so that it sits inside the altar about halfway up. 6 Also, make poles from acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. 7 They’ll be able to be put into rings on two sides of the altar for carrying it. 8 The altar should be hollow in the middle and made from wooden planks just like you were shown on the mountain.

9 Make curtains of twisted finely-spun linen to form a courtyard around the residence. The south side will require fifty metres of curtain 10 with twenty bronze pillars and their twenty bases. The hooks on the pillars and the clips must be made of silver. 11 Similarly on the north side, another fifty metres of curtain with twenty pillars and their bases and their hooks and clips. 12 The west side will require twenty-five metres of curtain with ten pillars and bases. 13 The east side of the courtyard must also be twenty-five metres wide. 14 Only side side of the gate, the curtain will be 7.5m long with three pillars and bases, 15 and the same on the other side. 16 The entrance curtain must be made of twisted finely-spun linen. It’ll be ten metres wide and hang on four pillars with their bases, and must be embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. 17 All the pillars for the courtyard must have silver decorations around them, as well as their silver hooks and bronze bases. 18 So the courtyard will be fifty metres by twenty-five metres and the curtain enclosure will be 2.5m high. All the curtains will be made of finely-spun linen, and the bases under all the pillars will be bronze. 19 All the equipment for the operation of the residence and all the tent pegs and pegs for the courtyard must be made of bronze.

20 Order the Israelis to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the lamps so they can be kept burning continually. 21 In the outer portion of the sacred tent (outside the curtain where the sacred box is kept), Aharon and his sons must attend to the lampstand in front of Yahweh from evening to morning. This regulation will apply continually to all future generations of Israelis.