Exodus 27
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The Bronze Altar
(Exodus 38:1–7)

1Moreouer thou shalt make the altar of Shittim wood, fiue cubites long and fiue cubites broade (the altar shall be foure square) and the height thereof three cubites. 2And thou shalt make it hornes in the foure corners thereof: the hornes shalbe of it selfe, and thou shalt couer it with brasse. 3Also thou shalt make his ashpannes for his ashes and his besoms, and his basens, and his flesh-hookes, and his censers: thou shalt make all the instruments thereof of brasse. 4And thou shalt make vnto it a grate like networke of brasse: also vpon that grate shalt thou make foure brasen rings vpon the foure corners thereof. 5And thou shalt put it vnder the compasse of the altar beneath, that the grate may be in the middes of the altar. 6Also thou shalt make barres for the altar, barres, I say, of Shittim wood, and shalt couer them with brasse. 7And the barres thereof shalbe put in the rings, the which barres shalbe vpon the two sides of the altar to beare it. 8Thou shalt make the altar holowe betwene the boardes: as God shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

The Courtyard
(Exodus 38:9–20)

9Also thou shalt make the court of the Tabernacle in the Southside, euen full South: the court shall haue curtaines of fine twined linnen, of an hundreth cubites long, for one side, 10And it shal haue twentie pillars, with their twentie sockets of brasse: the heades of the pillars, and their filets shalbe siluer. 11Likewise on the Northside in length there shalbe hangings of an hundreth cubites long, and the twentie pillars thereof with their twentie sockets of brasse: the heades of the pillars and the filets shalbe siluer. 12And the breadth of the court on the Westside shall haue curtaines of fiftie cubites, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets. 13And the breadth of the court, Eastwarde full East shall haue fiftie cubites. 14Also hangings of fifteene cubites shalbe on the one side with their three pillars and their three sockets. 15Likewise on the other side shalbe hangings of fifteene cubites, with their three pillars & their three sockets. 16And in the gate of the court shalbe a vaile of twentie cubites, of blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine twined linen wrought with needle, with the foure pillars thereof and their foure sockets. 17All the pillars of the court shal haue filets of siluer round about, with their heads of siluer, and their sockets of brasse. 18The length of the court shalbe an hundreth cubites, and the breadth fiftie at either ende, & the height fiue cubites, and the hangings of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brasse. 19Al the vessels of the Tabernacle for al maner seruice thereof, and all the pinnes thereof, and all the pinnes of the court shalbe brasse.

The Oil for the Lamps
(Leviticus 24:1–4)

20And thou shalt commande the children of Israel, that they bring vnto thee pure oyle oliue beaten, for the light, that the lampes may alway burne. 21In the Tabernacle of the Congregation without the vaile, which is before the Testimony, shall Aaron and his sonnes dresse them from euening to morning before the Lorde, for a statute for euer vnto their generations, to be obserued by the children of Israel.


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Exodus 26
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