| Berean Study Bible | New International Version |
| 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. | 1"Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide. |
| 2Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze. | 2Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze. |
| 3Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans. | 3Make all its utensils of bronze--its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans. |
| 4Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh. | 4Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network. |
| 5Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar. | 5Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar. |
| 6Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. | 6Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. |
| 7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. | 7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried. |
| 8Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain. | 8Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain. |
| 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, | 9"Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen, |
| 10with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts. | 10with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. |
| 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. | 11The north side shall also be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. |
| 12The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases. | 12"The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. |
| 13The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide. | 13On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide. |
| 14Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases, | 14Curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases, |
| 15and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases. | 15and curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on the other side, with three posts and three bases. |
| 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. | 16"For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen--the work of an embroiderer--with four posts and four bases. |
| 17All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases. | 17All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands and hooks, and bronze bases. |
| 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. | 18The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases. |
| 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. | 19All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze. |
| 20And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. | 20"Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning. |
| 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. | 21In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come. |
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