Exodus 27:15-21

15 And make the hangings on the other side 22 and a half [feet],^[a] including their three posts and their three bases.

16 The gate of the courtyard is to have a thirty-foot^[b] screen embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It is to have four posts including their four bases.

17 "All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases.

18 The length of the courtyard is to be 150 feet, the width 75 [feet] at each end, and the height seven and a half feet,^[c] [all of it made] of finely spun linen. The bases of the posts must be bronze.

19 All the tools of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.

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20 "You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually.

21 In the tent of meeting outside the veil that is in front of the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp from evening until morning before the Lord. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations.

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Exodus 27:15-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 27

This chapter treats of the altar of burnt offering, and of all things relative to it, Ex 27:1-8, of the court of the tabernacle, its hangings on each side, with pillars, sockets, and hooks for them, Ex 27:9-19 and it is concluded with an order to the Israelites to bring oil olive for the lamp of the sanctuary, Ex 27:20,21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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[a]. Lit 15 [cubits]
[b]. Lit twenty-cubit
[c]. Lit be 100 by the cubit, and the width 50 by 50, and the height five cubits

Exodus 27:15-21

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Exodus 27:15-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 27

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