TABERNACLE FURNITURE (EX.27)
THE BRAZEN ALTAR
"Using acacia wood, construct a 2.3m wide square altar and 1.4m high. Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze. Make ash pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and fire-holders, all of bronze. Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners. Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge. For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar. The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on this mountain.
THE COURTYARD
Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 46m long. They will be held up by twenty posts set securely in twenty bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings. Make the curtains the same on the north side, 46m of curtains held up by twenty posts set securely in bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings. The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 23m long, supported by ten posts set into ten bases. The east end of the courtyard, the front, will also be 23m long. The courtyard entrance will be on the east end, flanked by two curtains. The curtain on the right side will be 6.9m, supported by three posts set into three bases. The curtain on the left side will also be 6.9m long, supported by three posts set into three bases.
For the entrance to the courtyard, make a curtain that is 9.2m long. Make it from finely woven linen, and decorate it with beautiful embroidery in blue, purple, and scarlet thread. Support it with four posts, each securely set in its own base. All the posts around the courtyard must have silver rings and hooks and bronze bases. So the entire courtyard will be 46m long and 23m wide, with curtain walls 2.3m high, made from finely woven linen. The bases for the posts will be made of bronze. All the utensils used for the services of the Tabernacle, including all the tent pegs and the courtyard curtains, must be made of bronze.
OIL FOR THE LAMPS
Tell the children of Yisharal to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. The lampstand will stand in the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that shields the Ark of the Blood-Covenant-Witness. Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning in My presence all night. This is a permanent law for the people of Yisharal, and it must be observed from generation to generation.
