Exodus 27:1-11 ▼

1 “And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.

2 Make horns (horn-shaped projections) for it on its four corners; the horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

3 You shall make pots to remove its ashes, and shovels, basins [to catch the blood of the sacrificed animal], meat-forks, and firepans [to store live coals]. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.

4 Also make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the grid you are to make four bronze rings at its four corners.

5 And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the grid will extend halfway up the altar.

6 You shall make [carrying] poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, overlaid with bronze.

7 The poles shall be inserted through the rings on the two sides of the altar so that it may be carried.

8 You are to make the altar hollow with planks; as you were shown on the mountain [of Sinai], so shall it be made.

9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle. The south side of the court is to have curtains of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;

10 it shall have twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver;

11 likewise for the north side there shall be curtains, a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver.