The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 "You are to make the altar of acacia-wood, seven-and-a-half feet long and seven-and-a-half feet wide - the altar is to be square and four-and-a-half feet high.
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And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
2 Make horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece with it; and you are to overlay it with bronze.
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Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
3 "Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat-hooks and fire pans; all its utensils you are to make of bronze.
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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.
4 Make for it a grate of bronze netting; and on the four corners of the netting, make four bronze rings.
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And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
5 Put it under the rim of the altar, so that the netting reaches halfway up the altar.
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And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.
6 Make poles of acacia-wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
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And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
7 Its poles are to be put into the rings; the poles are to be on both sides of the altar for carrying it.
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And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
8 The altar is to be made of planks and hollow inside. They are to make it just as you were shown on the mountain.
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The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
9 "Here is how you are to make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side, facing southward, are to be tapestries for the courtyard made of finely woven linen, 150 feet for one side,
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And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.
10 supported on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets; the hooks on the posts and the attached rings for hanging are to be of silver.
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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.
11 Likewise, along the north side are to be tapestries 150 feet long, hung on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets, with silver hooks and rings for the posts.
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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.
12 Across the width of the courtyard on the west side are to be tapestries seventy-five feet long, hung on ten posts in ten sockets.
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And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
13 The width of the courtyard on the east side, facing east, will be seventy-five feet.
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And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
14 The tapestries for one side [of the gateway] will be twenty-two-and-a-half feet long, hung on three posts in three sockets;
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On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;
15 for the other side there will be tapestries twenty-two-and-a-half feet long on three posts in three sockets.
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And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.
16 "For the gateway of the courtyard there is to be a screen thirty feet long made of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen. It should be in colors, the work of a weaver. It is to be on four posts in four sockets.
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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.
17 All the posts all the way around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and to stand in sockets of bronze.
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All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.
18 The length of the courtyard is to be 150 feet and the width seventy-five feet everywhere; with the height seven-and-a-half feet. The tapestries and screen are to be of finely woven linen, and the sockets are to be of bronze.
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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.
19 "All the equipment needed for every kind of service in the tabernacle, as well as the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
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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.
20 "You are to order the people of Isra'el to bring you pure oil of pounded olives for the light, and to keep a lamp burning continually.
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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.
21 Aharon and his sons are to put it in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain in front of the testimony, and keep it burning from evening until morning before ADONAI. This is to be a permanent regulation through all the generations of the people of Isra'el.
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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.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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