¹“You shall make the altar of acacia wood , five cubits long, and five cubits wide . The altar shall be square . Its height shall be three cubits .[#27:1 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.; #27:1 The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 metres or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.]

²You shall make its horns on its four corners . Its horns shall be of one piece with it . You shall overlay it with bronze .

³You shall make its pots to take away its ashes ; and its shovels , its basins , its meat hooks , and its fire pans . You shall make all its vessels of bronze .

⁴You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze . On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners .

⁵You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath , that the net may reach halfway up the altar .

⁶You shall make poles for the altar , poles of acacia wood , and overlay them with bronze .

⁷Its poles shall be put into the rings , and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it .

⁸You shall make it hollow with planks . They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain .

⁹“You shall make the court of the tabernacle : for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side .

¹⁰Its pillars shall be twenty , and their sockets twenty , of bronze . The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver .

¹¹Likewise for the length of the north side , there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty , and their sockets twenty , of bronze ; the hooks of the pillars , and their fillets , of silver .

¹²For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten , and their sockets ten .

¹³The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

¹⁴The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits ; their pillars three , and their sockets three .

¹⁵For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits ; their pillars three , and their sockets three .

¹⁶For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue , and purple , and scarlet , and fine twined linen , the work of the embroiderer ; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

¹⁷All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver ; their hooks of silver , and their sockets of bronze .

¹⁸The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits , and the width fifty throughout , and the height five cubits , of fine twined linen , and their sockets of bronze .

¹⁹All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service , and all its pins , and all the pins of the court , shall be of bronze .

²⁰“You shall command the children of Israel , that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light , to cause a lamp to burn continually .

²¹In the Tent of Meeting , outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD : it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel .