Exodus 27:2-12

2 Make projections at the top of the four corners. They are to form one piece with the altar, and the whole is to be covered with bronze.
3 Make pans for the greasy ashes, and make shovels, bowls, hooks, and fire pans. All this equipment is to be made of bronze.
4 Make a bronze grating and put four bronze carrying rings on its corners.
5 Put the grating under the rim of the altar, so that it reaches halfway up the altar.
6 Make carrying poles of acacia wood, cover them with bronze,
7 and put them in the rings on each side of the altar when it is carried.
8 Make the altar out of boards and leave it hollow, according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.
9 "For the Tent of my presence make an enclosure out of fine linen curtains. On the south side the curtains are to be 50 yards long,
10 supported by twenty bronze posts in twenty bronze bases, with hooks and rods made of silver.
11 Do the same on the north side of the enclosure.
12 On the west side there are to be curtains 25 yards long, with ten posts and ten bases.

Exodus 27:2-12 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.

Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.