The Bronze Altar
A bronze altar with horns stands in a courtyard fenced with linen curtains on silver-banded posts, a defined space with one gate, where the offerings can be seen. Israel supplies pressed olive oil so Aaron and his sons keep a lamp burning from evening to morning.
27 1"Make the altar of acacia wood: seven and a half feet long, seven and a half feet wide, square, and four and a half feet high. 2Make horns on its four corners, horns of one piece with it; overlay it with bronze. 3Make pots to clear its ashes, shovels, basins, forks, and firepans; make all its utensils bronze. 4Make for it a grating, a bronze net; on the net make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5Set it under the ledge of the altar, so that the net reaches halfway up the altar. 6Make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7Put the poles through the rings, on the two sides of the altar, to carry it. 8Make it hollow, with boards, as shown to you on the mountain—so they are to make it.
The Courtyard
9"Make the tabernacle's courtyard: curtains of finely twisted linen on the south side, about 150 feet long for that side. 10Twenty posts with twenty bronze bases; the posts' hooks and bands, silver. 11On the north side too, curtains 150 feet long, with twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts. 12For the courtyard's west width: curtains seventy-five feet long, ten posts, ten bases. 13The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, is about seventy-five feet. 14Curtains for one side of the gate: about twenty-two and a half feet, with three posts and three bases. 15On the other side, curtains twenty-two and a half feet, three posts, three bases. 16The courtyard gate's screen: thirty feet, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn with finely twisted linen, embroidered, with four posts and four bases. 17All posts around the courtyard: banded with silver, hooks silver, bases bronze. 18The courtyard: about 150 feet long, seventy-five feet wide throughout, seven and a half feet high—fine twisted linen, bronze bases. 19All the tabernacle's equipment, whatever its use, all its pegs, and the courtyard's pegs—all of bronze.
Oil for the Continual Lamp
20"Command the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend it from evening to morning before our Father—a lasting statute for their generations, on behalf of the Israelites." a a v21 'The testimony' refers to the stone tablets of the law kept inside the Ark of the Covenant.
