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Exodus 27 Bible in Basic English
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1 And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
1 “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.
2 Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it 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.
3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
4 And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
4 You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
5 And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.
5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
6 And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
7 And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
8 You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown 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.
9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
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.
10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be 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.
11 Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
12 And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
12 For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
13 And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
13 The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
14 On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;
14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.
15 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
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.
16 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
17 All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.
17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets 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.
18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets 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.
19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be 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.
20 “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
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.
21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
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Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Cross references (15)
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- 1 Exodus 38:1–7; Exodus 24:4; Exodus 40:29; 2 Samuel 24:18; Ezekiel 43:13–17
- 2 Psalm 118:27; 1 Kings 1:50; Leviticus 4:7; Exodus 29:12; Leviticus 8:15
- 3 1 Kings 7:45; Exodus 38:3; 1 Kings 7:40; 2 Kings 25:15; Leviticus 16:12
- 4 Exodus 25:12; Exodus 35:16; Exodus 38:4–5
- 5 Exodus 38:4
- 6 Numbers 4:44; Exodus 35:13–15; Exodus 30:4
- 7 Numbers 4:13–14; Exodus 25:28; Exodus 30:4
- 8 Exodus 25:40; Exodus 25:9; Hebrews 8:5; 1 Chronicles 28:11; Matthew 15:9
- 9 Exodus 38:9–20; Ezekiel 40:28; Ezekiel 42:3; Exodus 39:40; Ezekiel 42:19–20
- 10 Jeremiah 52:21; Exodus 36:38; Exodus 26:19–21
- 14 Exodus 26:36; Exodus 27:9
- 16 Exodus 26:36; Exodus 28:39; Judges 5:30; Exodus 36:37; Exodus 39:29
- 19 Exodus 39:40; Exodus 27:3; Isaiah 22:23–25; Isaiah 33:20; Ezra 9:8
- 20 Leviticus 24:1–4; Psalm 23:5; Zechariah 4:11–14; Judges 9:9; Exodus 39:37
- 21 Numbers 18:23; Numbers 19:21; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 16:34; Exodus 30:8
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The altar of burnt-offering also was five cubits in breadth. Five priests were chosen in the wilderness,--namely, Aaron, Nadab, Abiud, Eleazar, Ithamar.