{"book":"Exodus","slug":"exodus","ch":27,"genre":"prose","sub":"Exodus","prev":"exodus/26","next":"exodus/28","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[“] You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.","f":["The altar was approximately 7.5 feet in length and width, and 4.5 feet high (2.3 meters in length and width, and 1.4 meters high)."],"h":"The Bronze Altar","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"Make all its utensils of bronze — its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.","f":[]},{"v":5,"t":"Set [the grate] beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.","f":[]},{"v":6,"t":"Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":7,"t":"The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,","f":["100 cubits is approximately 150 feet or 45.7 meters; also in verse 11."],"h":"The Courtyard","style":"reg"},{"v":10,"t":"with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.","f":[]},{"v":11,"t":"Likewise [there are to be] curtains on the north side, a hundred [cubits] long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.","f":["50 cubits is approximately 75 feet or 22.9 meters; also in verse 13."]},{"v":13,"t":"The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, [is to be] fifty cubits wide.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":14,"t":"Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,","f":["15 cubits is approximately 22.5 feet or 6.9 meters; also in verse 15."]},{"v":15,"t":"and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.","f":[]},{"v":16,"t":"The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits [long], with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.","f":["20 cubits is approximately 30 feet or 9.1 meters."],"style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":18,"t":"The entire courtyard [shall be] a hundred cubits long and fifty [cubits] wide, [with curtains] of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.","f":["The courtyard was approximately 150 feet long and 75 feet wide (45.7 meters long and 22.9 meters wide).","5 cubits is approximately 7.5 feet or 2.3 meters."]},{"v":19,"t":"All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.","f":[]},{"v":20,"t":"And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.","f":[],"h":"The Oil for the Lamps","style":"reg"},{"v":21,"t":"In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that [is] in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.[’’]","f":["The Testimony refers to the stone tablets in the ark of the covenant inscribed with the Ten Commandments."],"style":"reg"}]}