Exodus 27:3-13

3 "You shall make its pails for removing its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

4 "You shall make for it a grating of network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.

5 "You shall put it beneath, under the ledge of the altar, so that the net will reach halfway up the altar.

6 "You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

7 "Its poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar ¹when it is carried.

8 "You shall make it hollow with planks; ²as it was shown to you in the mountain, so they shall make it.

Court of the Tabernacle

9 "You shall make ³the court of the tabernacle. On the south * side there shall be hangings for the court of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long for one side;

10 and its pillars shall be twenty, with their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

11 "Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars with their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

12 "For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.

13 "The width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits.

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Exodus 27:3-13 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

Cross References 3

1. Numbers 4:15
2. Exodus 25:40; Exodus 26:30; Acts 7:44; Hebrews 8:5
3. Exodus 38:9-20

Footnotes 8

[a]. Lit "on"
[b]. Or "dwelling place"
[c]. Lit "For the side of the Negev to the south"
[d]. Or "bases"
[e]. Or "fillets, rings"
[f]. Or "bases"
[g]. Or "bases"
[h]. Lit "east side eastward"