1 ARST Make an altar from acacia wood. Make it square: two and a half meters long on each side and one and a half meters tall. BSB BSB: “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
3 ARST Make all its implements from bronze. Make pans to collect the ashes from burning the fat, shovels{ for cleaning out the ashes}, basins, forks{ for turning the meat as it cooks}, and buckets{ for carrying hot coals}. BSB BSB: Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
4 ARST Make a bronze lattice grating{ to hold the wood and burning coals}. Fasten a bronze ring to each of the four corners of the grate. BSB BSB: Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.
5 ARST Put the grating under the rim that is around the altar. Make it so that it is inside the altar, halfway down. BSB BSB: Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
6 ARST Make poles for{ carrying} the altar from acacia wood and cover them with bronze. BSB BSB: Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
7 ARST Put the poles through the rings on each side of the altar to carry it. BSB BSB: The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
8 ARST Make the altar from boards and make it hollow in the middle. They must make it according to these instructions that I am giving you here on this mountain. BSB BSB: Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
9 ARST Also make a courtyard around the sacred tent with more curtains of fine linen. For the south side, hang 50 meters of curtain BSB BSB: You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
10 ARST from 20{ bronze} posts.{ Make} 20 bronze bases for the posts and hooks on them and silver connectors. BSB BSB: with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
11 ARST And likewise for the north side{ of the courtyard: hang} 50 meters of curtains from 20 posts, with their 20 bronze bases, hooks, and silver connectors. BSB BSB: Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
12 ARST { Make} a curtain 25 meters long along the west side of the courtyard.{ Support them} with ten posts, with a base under each post. BSB BSB: The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.
13 ARST On the east side the courtyard must also be 25 meters wide. BSB BSB: The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
14 ARST { Make} a curtain seven and a half meters long for one side{ of the entrance}, with three posts and bases. BSB BSB: Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
15 ARST { Make} another curtain seven and a half meters long for the other side{ of the entrance}, also with three posts and bases. BSB BSB: and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
16 ARST { Make} a curtain from finely twined linen ten meters wide for the courtyard entrance. A skilled weaver must embroider it with blue, purple, and red yarn.{ Hang it} from four posts, each one with a base under it. BSB BSB: The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.
17 ARST Make all the ends of posts around the courtyard have rounded silver ends. Make the clasps from silver, and the bases from bronze. BSB BSB: All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
18 ARST Make the whole courtyard,{ from the east entrance to the west end}, 50 meters long and 25 meters wide, and{ the curtains that enclose it} two and a half meters high. Make all the curtains from fine linen, and all the bases{ under the posts} from bronze. BSB BSB: The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
19 ARST Make all the things{ that are not made of gold} that are for use inside the sacred tent{ and in the courtyard}, and all the tent pegs to support the sacred tent and the curtains that form the courtyard from bronze. BSB BSB: All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.
20 ARST Command the Israelites to bring you purified oil squeezed from olives, so that the lamp is always burning. BSB BSB: And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
21 ARST In the outer part of the sacred tent, outside the curtain where the sacred chest is, Aaron and his sons must take care to keep the lamps burning every night from evening to morning for Yahweh. The Israelites must obey this regulation throughout all future generations. BSB BSB: In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.