| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You 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, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Likewise 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. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The 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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19All 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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21In 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. |
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