Exodus 27:3-13

3 "Use bronze to make all the tools and dishes that will be used on the altar: the pots to remove the ashes, the shovels, the bowls for sprinkling blood, the meat forks, and the pans for carrying the burning wood.
4 "Make a large bronze screen to hold the burning wood, and put a bronze ring at each of the four corners of it.
5 Put the screen inside the altar, under its rim, halfway up from the bottom.
6 "Make poles of acacia wood for the altar, and cover them with bronze.
7 Put the poles through the rings on both sides of the altar to carry it.
8 Make the altar out of boards and leave the inside hollow. Make it as you were shown on the mountain.
9 "Make a wall of curtains to form a courtyard around the Holy Tent. The south side should have a wall of fine linen curtains one hundred fifty feet long.
10 Hang the curtains with silver hooks and bands on twenty bronze posts with twenty bronze bases.
11 The north side must also be one hundred fifty feet long. Hang its curtains on silver hooks and bands on twenty bronze posts with twenty bronze bases.
12 "The west end of the courtyard must have a wall of curtains seventy-five feet long, with ten posts and ten bases on that wall.
13 The east end of the courtyard must also be seventy-five 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.

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