Exodus 27:3-13

3 Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.

4 Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners.

5 Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.

6 For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

7 Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar.

8 The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on the mountain.

9 “Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long.

10 They will be held up by twenty posts set securely in twenty bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings.

11 Make the curtains the same on the north side—150 feet of curtains held up by twenty posts set securely in bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings.

12 The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long, supported by ten posts set into ten bases.

13 The east end of the courtyard, the front, will also be 75 feet long.

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew 100 cubits [46 meters]; also in 27:11 .
• [b]. Hebrew 50 cubits [23 meters]; also in 27:13 .