The Bible in Basic English BBE
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1 And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
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“Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.
2 Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
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Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.
3 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.
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Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans.
4 And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
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Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network.
5 And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.
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Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
6 And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
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Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
7 And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
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The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
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Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
9 And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.
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“Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen,
10 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.
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with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
11 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.
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The north side shall also be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
12 And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
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“The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases.
13 And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
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On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide.
14 On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;
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Curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases,
15 And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.
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and curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on the other side, with three posts and three bases.
16 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.
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“For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.
17 All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.
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All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands and hooks, and bronze bases.
18 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.
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The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
19 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.
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All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
20 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.
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“Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.
21 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.
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In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.
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