Exodus 27:1-21, NLT

Exodus 27

Plans for the Altar of Burnt Offering

1“Using acacia wood, construct a square altar 7¹/2 feet wide, 7¹/2 feet long, and 4¹/2 feet high.*27:1 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.3 meters] wide, 5 cubits long, a square, and 3 cubits [1.4 meters] high.

2Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze. 3Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze. 4Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners. 5Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge. 6For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar. 8The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on the mountain.

Plans for the Courtyard

9“Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long.*27:9 Hebrew 100 cubits [46 meters]; also in 27:11.

10They will be held up by twenty posts set securely in twenty bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings. 11Make the curtains the same on the north side—150 feet of curtains held up by twenty posts set securely in bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings. 12The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long,*27:12 Hebrew 50 cubits [23 meters]; also in 27:13. supported by ten posts set into ten bases. 13The east end of the courtyard, the front, will also be 75 feet long. 14The courtyard entrance will be on the east end, flanked by two curtains. The curtain on the right side will be 22¹/2 feet long,*27:14 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters]; also in 27:15. supported by three posts set into three bases. 15The curtain on the left side will also be 22¹/2 feet long, supported by three posts set into three bases.

16“For the entrance to the courtyard, make a curtain that is 30 feet long.*27:16 Hebrew 20 cubits [9.2 meters]. Make it from finely woven linen, and decorate it with beautiful embroidery in blue, purple, and scarlet thread. Support it with four posts, each securely set in its own base.

17All the posts around the courtyard must have silver rings and hooks and bronze bases. 18So the entire courtyard will be 150 feet long and 75 feet wide, with curtain walls 7¹/2 feet high,*27:18 Hebrew 100 cubits [46 meters] long and 50 by 50 [23 meters] wide and 5 cubits [2.3 meters] high. made from finely woven linen. The bases for the posts will be made of bronze.

19“All the articles used in the rituals of the Tabernacle, including all the tent pegs used to support the Tabernacle and the courtyard curtains, must be made of bronze.

Light for the Tabernacle

20“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

21The lampstand will stand in the Tabernacle, in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant.*27:21 Hebrew in the Tent of Meeting, outside the inner curtain that is in front of the Testimony. See note on 25:16. Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning in the Lord’s presence all night. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel, and it must be observed from generation to generation.