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27:1(vi) 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.
27:2 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.
27:3 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.
27:4 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.
27:5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make [it].
The Outer court, Pillars and Screen
27:9(vii) And thou shalt make the court of the mishkan: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
27:10 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.
27:11 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.
27:12 And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits.
27:14 The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
27:15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits]: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
27:16 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.
27:17(Maftir)
All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.
27:18 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.
27:19 All the vessels of the mishkan in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be of] brass.
The Pure Olive Oil for the Menorah
27:20 (i)
Veata tetzaveh et-Benei Yisrael veyikkhu eleikha shemen zayit zakh katit lamaOr lehaalot ner Tamid:
And thou shalt command Benai Yisrael, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
27:21 In the Ohel moed (tent of meeting) without the vail, which [is] before the testimony, Aharon and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before YHWH (יהוה): [it shall be] a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the benai Yisrael.
