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1 “Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.
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"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.
2 Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.
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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.
3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans.
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"Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat-hooks and fire pans; all its utensils you are to make of bronze.
4 Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network.
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Make for it a grate of bronze netting; and on the four corners of the netting, make four bronze rings.
5 Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
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Put it under the rim of the altar, so that the netting reaches halfway up the altar.
6 Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
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Make poles of acacia-wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
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Its poles are to be put into the rings; the poles are to be on both sides of the altar for carrying it.
8 Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
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The altar is to be made of planks and hollow inside. They are to make it just as you were shown on the mountain.
9 “Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen,
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"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,
10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
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supported on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets; the hooks on the posts and the attached rings for hanging are to be of silver.
11 The north side shall also be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
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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.
12 “The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases.
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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.
13 On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide.
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The width of the courtyard on the east side, facing east, will be seventy-five feet.
14 Curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases,
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The tapestries for one side [of the gateway] will be twenty-two-and-a-half feet long, hung on three posts in three sockets;
15 and curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on the other side, with three posts and three bases.
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for the other side there will be tapestries twenty-two-and-a-half feet long on three posts in three sockets.
16 “For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.
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"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.
17 All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands and hooks, and bronze bases.
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All the posts all the way around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and to stand in sockets of bronze.
18 The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
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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.
19 All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
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"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.
20 “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.
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"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.
21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.
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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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