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And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof [shall be] three cubits (27:1)

And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass (27:2)

And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make [of] brass (27:3)

And thou shalt make for it a grate of network [of] brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof (27:4)

And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar (27:5)

And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass (27:6)

And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it (27:7)

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee in the mount, so shall they make [it] (27:8)

And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: (27:9)

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver (27:10)

And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of an hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver (27:11)

And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten (27:12)

And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits (27:13)

The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three (27:14)

And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits]: their pillars three, and their sockets three (27:15)

And for the gate of the court [shall be] an hanging of twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: [and] their pillars [shall be] four, and their sockets four (27:16)

All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass (27:17)

The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass (27:18)

All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be of] brass (27:19)

And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always (27:20)

In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which [is] before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel (27:21)

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