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The Bronze Altar

¹ "And you shall make ^(C1)the altar for burnt offerings of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.² "Make ^(C1)horns (horn-shaped projections) for it on its four corners; the horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.³ "You shall make pots to remove its ashes, and shovels, basins to catch the blood of the sacrificed animal, meat-forks, and firepans to store live coals. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.⁴ "Also make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the grid you are to make four bronze rings at its four corners.⁵ "And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the grid will extend halfway up the altar.⁶ "You shall make carrying poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, overlaid with bronze.⁷ "The poles shall be inserted through the rings on the two sides of the altar so that it ^(C1)may be carried. ^(VR1)8 "You are to make the altar hollow with planks; ^(C1)as you were shown on the mountain of Sinai, so shall it be made.

Court of the Tabernacle

⁹ "You shall make ^(C1)the court of the tabernacle. The south side of the court is to have curtains of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;¹⁰ it shall have twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver;¹¹ likewise for the north side there shall be curtains, a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver.¹² "For the width of the court on the west side there shall be curtains of fifty cubits, with ten pillars (support poles) and ten sockets.¹³ "The width of the court to the front, on the east side shall be fifty cubits.¹⁴ "The curtains for one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.¹⁵ "On the other side of the gate the curtains shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.¹⁶ "For the gate of the court there shall be a screen to provide a covering of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and finely woven embroidered linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four pillars and four base sockets.¹⁷ "All the pillars (support poles) around the court shall be joined together with silver rods; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze.¹⁸ "The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty cubits throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their sockets of bronze.¹⁹ "All the tabernacle's utensils and instruments used in all its service, and all its stakes, and all the stakes for the court, shall be of bronze.

²⁰ "You shall command the Israelites to provide you with ^(C1)clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually every night.²¹ "In the ^(C1)Tent of Meeting of God with His people, outside ^(C2)the veil which is in front of the ark of the Testimony and sets it apart, ^(C3)Aaron the high priest and his sons shall keep the lamp burning from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a perpetual ^(C4)statute to be observed throughout their generations on behalf of the Israelites.