[1] And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five
cubits wide and three cubits high. [2] Put horns at the four angles of it,
made of the same, plating it all with brass. [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. [4] And make a network of brass, with
four brass rings at its four angles. [5] And put the network under the
shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. [6] And
make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. [7] And put the
rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting
it. [8] The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the
design which you saw 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. [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. [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. [12] And for the open space on the
west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and
ten bases; [13] And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
[14] On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long,
with three pillars and three bases; [15] And on the other side, hangings
fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases. [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. [17] All the
pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver
and bases of brass. [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. [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. [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. [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.
