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Exodus 27

Exodus 27:1. `And thou hast made the altar of shittim wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth--the altar is square--and three cubits its height.

Exodus 27:2 And thou hast made its horns on its four corners, its horns are of the same, and thou hast overlaid it [with] brass.

Exodus 27:3 And thou hast made its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels, and its bowls, and its forks, and its fire-pans, even all its vessels thou dost make of brass.

Exodus 27:4 `And thou hast made for it a grate of net-work of brass, and hast made on the net four rings of brass on its four extremities,

Exodus 27:5 and hast put it under the compass of the altar beneath, and the net hath been unto the middle of the altar.

Exodus 27:6 `And thou hast made staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] brass.

Exodus 27:7 And the staves have been brought into the rings, and the staves have been on the two sides of the altar in bearing it.

Exodus 27:8 Hollow with boards thou dost make it, as it hath been shewed thee in the mount, so do they make [it].

Exodus 27:9. `And thou hast made the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward, hangings for the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit [is] the length for the one side,

Exodus 27:10 and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [are] of brass, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets [are] of silver;

Exodus 27:11 and so for the north side in length, hangings of a hundred [cubits] in length, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [are] of brass, the pegs of the pillars and their fillets [are] of silver.

Exodus 27:12 `And [for] the breadth of the court at the west side [are] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

Exodus 27:13 And [for] the breadth of the court at the east side, eastward, [are] fifty cubits.

Exodus 27:14 And the hangings at the side [are] fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 27:15 And at the second side [are] hangings fifteen [cubits], their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 27:16 `And for the gate of the court a covering of twenty cubits, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of an embroiderer; their pillars four, their sockets four.

Exodus 27:17 All the pillars of the court round about [are] filleted [with] silver, their pegs [are] silver, and their sockets brass.

Exodus 27:18 `The length of the court [is] a hundred by the cubit, and the breadth fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, of twined linen, and their sockets [are] brass,

Exodus 27:19 even all the vessels of the tabernacle, in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, [are] brass.

Exodus 27:20. `And thou--thou dost command the sons of Israel, and they bring unto thee pure beaten olive oil for the light, to cause the lamp to go up continually;

Exodus 27:21 in the tent of meeting, at the outside of the vail, which [is] over the testimony, doth Aaron--his sons also--arrange it from evening till morning before Jehovah--a statute age-during to their generations, from the sons of Israel.