1“You shall make ⚓an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide—the altar shall be square—and its height shallbe three cubits. 2You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze. 3Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze. 4You shall make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5You shall put it under the rim of the altar beneath, that the network may be midway up the altar. 6And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7The poles shall be put in the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it. 8You shall make it hollow with boards; ⚓as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
The Court of the Tabernacle
9⚓“You shall also make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side thereshallbe hangings for the court madeof fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long for one side. 10And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shallbe bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shallbe silver. 11Likewise along the length of the north side thereshallbe hangings one hundred cubits long, with its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. 12“And along the width of the court on the west side shallbe hangings of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten sockets. 13The width of the court on the east side shallbe fifty cubits. 14The hangings on one side ofthegateshallbe fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets. 15And on the other side shallbe hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets. 16“For the gate of the court thereshallbe a screen twenty cubits long, wovenof blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver. It shallhave four pillars and four sockets. 17All the pillars around the court shall have bands of silver; their ⚓hooks shallbe of silver and their sockets of bronze. 18The length of the court shallbe one hundred cubits, the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, madeof fine woven linen, and its sockets of bronze. 19All the utensils of the tabernacle for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shallbe of bronze.
The Care of the Lampstand
20“And ⚓you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually. 21In the tabernacle of meeting, ⚓outside the veil which is before the Testimony, ⚓Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before the Lord. ⚓Itshallbe a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.