1“Using acacia wood, construct a square altar 7-1/2 feet wide, 7-1/2 feet long, and 4-1/2 feet high.27:1 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.3 meters] wide, 5 cubits long, a square, and 3 cubits [1.4 meters] high.

2Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze.

3Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.

4Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners.

5Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.

6For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

7Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar.

8The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on the mountain.

9“Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long.27:9 Hebrew 100 cubits [46 meters]; also in 27:11.

10They will be held up by twenty posts set securely in twenty bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings.

11Make the curtains the same on the north side—150 feet of curtains held up by twenty posts set securely in bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings.

12The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long,27:12 Hebrew 50 cubits [23 meters]; also in 27:13. supported by ten posts set into ten bases.

13The east end of the courtyard, the front, will also be 75 feet long.

14The courtyard entrance will be on the east end, flanked by two curtains. The curtain on the right side will be 22-1/2 feet long,27:14 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters]; also in 27:15. supported by three posts set into three bases.

15The curtain on the left side will also be 22-1/2 feet long, supported by three posts set into three bases.

20“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

21The lampstand will stand in the Tabernacle, in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant.27:21 Hebrew in the Tent of Meeting, outside the inner curtain that is in front of the Testimony. See note on 25:16. Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning in the Lord’s presence all night. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel, and it must be observed from generation to generation.