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Exodus 27

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1And you shall 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.Select Exodus 27:1

2And you shall make the horns of it on the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and you shall overlay it with brass.Select Exodus 27:2

3And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his meat hooks, and his fire pans: all the vessels thereof you shall make of brass.Select Exodus 27:3

4And you shall make for it a grate of network of brass; and on the net shall you make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.Select Exodus 27:4

5And you shall put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the middle of the altar.Select Exodus 27:5

6And you shall make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.Select Exodus 27:6

7And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be on the two sides of the altar, to bear it.Select Exodus 27:7

8Hollow with boards shall you make it: as it was showed you in the mount, so shall they make it. ¶Select Exodus 27:8

9And you shall 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:Select Exodus 27:9

10And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.Select Exodus 27:10

11And 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. ¶Select Exodus 27:11

12And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.Select Exodus 27:12

13And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.Select Exodus 27:13

14The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.Select Exodus 27:14

15And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. ¶Select Exodus 27:15

16And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, worked with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.Select Exodus 27:16

17All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass. ¶Select Exodus 27:17

18The 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.Select Exodus 27:18

19All 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. ¶Select Exodus 27:19

20And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.Select Exodus 27:20

21In 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 to their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.Select Exodus 27:21

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