The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
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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"Make an altar out of acacia wood. It is to be square, 7 1/2 feet long and 7 1/2 feet wide, and it is to be 4 1/2 feet high.
2 Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
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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 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 pans for the greasy ashes, and make shovels, bowls, hooks, and fire pans. All this equipment is to be made of bronze.
4 And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
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Make a bronze grating and put four bronze carrying rings on its corners.
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 the grating under the rim of the altar, so that it reaches halfway up the altar.
6 And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
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Make carrying poles of acacia wood, cover 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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and put them in the rings on each side 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 out of boards and leave it hollow, according to the plan that I showed you 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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"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 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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supported by twenty bronze posts in twenty bronze bases, with hooks and rods made of silver.
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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Do the same on the north side of the enclosure.
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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On the west side there are to be curtains 25 yards long, 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 side, where the entrance is, the enclosure is also to be 25 yards 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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On each side of the entrance there are to be 7 1/2 yards of curtains, with three posts and three bases.
15 And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars 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 itself there is to be a curtain 10 yards long made of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool, and decorated with embroidery. It is to be supported by four posts in 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 enclosure are to be connected with silver rods, and their hooks are to be made of silver and their bases of bronze.
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 enclosure is to be 50 yards long, 25 yards wide, and 2 1/2 yards high. The curtains are to be made of fine linen and the bases of bronze.
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 equipment that is used in the Tent and all the pegs for the Tent and for the enclosure are to be made 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 people of Israel to bring you the best olive oil for the lamp, so that it can be lit each evening.
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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Aaron and his sons are to set up the lamp in the Tent of my presence outside the curtain which is in front of the Covenant Box. There in my presence it is to burn from evening until morning. This command is to be kept forever by the Israelites and their descendants.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.