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| Ex 27:1 | C D S T R K | 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. | And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. |
| Ex 27:2 | C D S T R K | 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. | Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass. |
| Ex 27:3 | C D S T R K | And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass. | And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. |
| Ex 27:4 | C D S T R K | And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. | And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles. |
| Ex 27:5 | C D S T R K | And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. | And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. |
| Ex 27:6 | C D S T R K | And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. | And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. |
| Ex 27:7 | C D S T R | And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it. | And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it. |
| Ex 27:8 | C D S T R | Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it. | The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain. |
| Ex 27:9 | C D S T R K | 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: | And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long. |
| Ex 27:10 | C D S T R | 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. | Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver. |
| Ex 27:11 | C D S T | 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. | And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver. |
| Ex 27:12 | C D S T | And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. | And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases; |
| Ex 27:13 | C D S T | And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. | And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide. |
| Ex 27:14 | C D S T R | The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. | On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases; |
| Ex 27:15 | C D S T | And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. | And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases. |
| Ex 27:16 | C D S T R K | 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. | And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases. |
| Ex 27:17 | C D S T K | All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass. | All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass. |
| Ex 27:18 | C D S T | 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. | The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass. |
| Ex 27:19 | C D S T R K | 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. | All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass. |
| Ex 27:20 | C D S T R K | 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. | Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times. |
| Ex 27:21 | C D S T R K | In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, 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. | Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel. |