New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and it shall be three cubits 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 You shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall 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 You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and firepans; you shall make all its utensils 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 You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
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And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
5 You shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net shall extend halfway down 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 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze;
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And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
7 the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.
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And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
8 You shall make it hollow, with boards. They shall be made 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 You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twisted linen one hundred cubits long for that 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 its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall 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 for its length on the north side there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.
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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 For the width of the court on the west side there shall be fifty cubits of hangings, with ten pillars and ten bases.
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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 court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits.
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And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
14 There shall be fifteen cubits of hangings on the one side, with three pillars and three bases.
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On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;
15 There shall be fifteen cubits of hangings on the other side, with three pillars and three bases.
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And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.
16 For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall have four pillars and with them four bases.
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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 pillars around the court shall be banded with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases 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 court shall be one hundred cubits, the width fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twisted linen and bases 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 utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall 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 shall further command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, so that a lamp may be set up to burn regularly.
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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 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a perpetual ordinance to be observed throughout their generations by the Israelites.
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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.
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