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Exodus 27 King James Version (with Apocrypha)

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1 And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof [shall be] three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make [of] brass. 4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network [of] brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. 5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. 6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it. 8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make [it].

9 ¶ And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver. 11 And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of an hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.

12 ¶ And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. 13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits. 14 The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits:] their pillars three, and their sockets three.

16 ¶ And for the gate of the court [shall be] an hanging of twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: [and] their pillars [shall be] four, and their sockets four. 17 All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.

18 ¶ The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass. 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be of] brass.

20 ¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. 21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which [is] before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

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  • Aaron

    First high priest

    Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10

Cross references (15)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Exodus 38:1–7; Exodus 24:4; Exodus 40:29; 2 Samuel 24:18; Ezekiel 43:13–17
  2. 2 Psalm 118:27; 1 Kings 1:50; Leviticus 4:7; Exodus 29:12; Leviticus 8:15
  3. 3 1 Kings 7:45; Exodus 38:3; 1 Kings 7:40; 2 Kings 25:15; Leviticus 16:12
  4. 4 Exodus 25:12; Exodus 35:16; Exodus 38:4–5
  5. 5 Exodus 38:4
  6. 6 Numbers 4:44; Exodus 35:13–15; Exodus 30:4
  7. 7 Numbers 4:13–14; Exodus 25:28; Exodus 30:4
  8. 8 Exodus 25:40; Exodus 25:9; Hebrews 8:5; 1 Chronicles 28:11; Matthew 15:9
  9. 9 Exodus 38:9–20; Ezekiel 40:28; Ezekiel 42:3; Exodus 39:40; Ezekiel 42:19–20
  10. 10 Jeremiah 52:21; Exodus 36:38; Exodus 26:19–21
  11. 14 Exodus 26:36; Exodus 27:9
  12. 16 Exodus 26:36; Exodus 28:39; Judges 5:30; Exodus 36:37; Exodus 39:29
  13. 19 Exodus 39:40; Exodus 27:3; Isaiah 22:23–25; Isaiah 33:20; Ezra 9:8
  14. 20 Leviticus 24:1–4; Psalm 23:5; Zechariah 4:11–14; Judges 9:9; Exodus 39:37
  15. 21 Numbers 18:23; Numbers 19:21; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 16:34; Exodus 30:8

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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  1. Quotes verse 27:1 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book II, Chapters XXIII–XXIV)

    The altar of burnt-offering also was five cubits in breadth. Five priests were chosen in the wilderness,--namely, Aaron, Nadab, Abiud, Eleazar, Ithamar.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)