Exodus 27:1-13

1 "Make an Altar of acacia wood. Make it seven and a half feet square and four and a half feet high.

2 Make horns at each of the four corners. The horns are to be of one piece with the Altar and covered with a veneer of bronze.

3 Make buckets for removing the ashes, along with shovels, basins, forks, and fire pans. Make all these utensils from bronze.

4 Make a grate of bronze mesh and attach bronze rings at each of the four corners.

5 Put the grate under the ledge of the Altar at the halfway point of the Altar.

6 Make acacia wood poles for the Altar and cover them with a veneer of bronze.

7 Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the Altar for carrying.

8 Use boards to make the Altar, keeping the interior hollow. The Courtyard

9 "Make a Courtyard for The Dwelling. The south side is to be 150 feet long. The hangings for the Courtyard are to be woven from fine twisted linen,

10 with their twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver.

11 The north side is to be exactly the same.

12 "For the west end of the Courtyard you will need seventy-five feet of hangings with their ten posts and bases.

13 Across the seventy-five feet at the front, or east end,

Exodus 27:1-13 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.