The bronze altar
1Make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide — it shall be square — and three cubits high. 2Make horns for it on its four corners, of one piece with it, and overlay it with bronze. 3Make its pots for removing the ashes, and its shovels, basins, forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze. 4Make a bronze grating for it, a network, and make four bronze rings on its four corners. 5Set it under the ledge of the altar, so that the network reaches halfway up the altar. 6Make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7Insert the poles into the rings so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8Make the altar hollow, out of boards, just as you were shown on the mountain; so it shall be made.
The courtyard
9Make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side there shall be hangings for the courtyard of finely woven linen, a hundred cubits long for that side, 10with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases; the hooks and bands of the posts shall be silver. 11Likewise for the north side, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases; the hooks and bands of the posts shall be silver. 12For the width of the courtyard on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, with ten posts and ten bases. 13The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits. 14The hangings on the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with three posts and three bases, 15and the hangings on the other side shall be fifteen cubits, with three posts and three bases. 16For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and four bases. 17All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases. 18The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and five cubits high, of finely woven linen, with bronze bases. 19All the equipment used for every service of the tabernacle, and all its tent pegs and all the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be of bronze.
The oil for the lamp
20Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before Yahweh. This shall be a lasting statute for the Israelites, generation after generation.
