The Bronze Altar (Exodus 38:1–7)
1 Brenton And thou shalt make an altar of incorruptible wood, of five cubits in the length, and five cubits in the breadth; the altar shall be square, and the height of it shall be of three cubits. 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 Brenton And thou shalt make a rim for the altar; and its covering and its cups, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pan, and all its vessels shalt thou make of brass. 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 Brenton And thou shalt make for it a brazen grate with net-work; and thou shalt make for the grate four brazen rings under the four sides. 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 Brenton And thou shalt put them below under the grate of the altar, and the grate shall extend to the middle of the altar. BSB BSB: Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
6 Brenton And thou shalt make for the altar staves of incorruptible wood, and thou shalt overlay them with brass. BSB BSB: Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
7 Brenton And thou shalt put the staves into the rings; and let the staves be on the sides 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 Brenton Thou shalt make it hollow with boards: according to what was shewed thee in the mount, so thou shalt make it. 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.
The Courtyard (Exodus 38:9–20)
9 Brenton And thou shalt make a court for the tabernacle, curtains of the court of fine linen spun on the south side, the length of a hundred cubits for one side. 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 Brenton And their pillars twenty, and twenty brazen sockets for them, and their rings and their clasps of silver. BSB BSB: with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
11 Brenton Thus shall there be to the side toward the north curtains of a hundred cubits in length; and their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty of brass, and the rings and the clasps of the pillars, and their sockets overlaid with silver. 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 Brenton And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the west curtains of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten. BSB BSB: The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.
13 Brenton And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the south, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. BSB BSB: The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
14 Brenton And the height of the curtains shall be of fifteen cubits for the one side of the gate ; their pillars three, and their sockets three. BSB BSB: Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
15 Brenton And for the second side the height of the curtains shall be of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. BSB BSB: and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
16 Brenton And a veil for the door of the court, the height of it of twenty cubits of blue linen, and of purple, and spun scarlet, and of fine linen spun with the art of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. 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 Brenton All the pillars of the court round about overlaid with silver, and their chapiters silver and their brass sockets. BSB BSB: All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
18 Brenton And the length of the court shall be a hundred cubits on each side, and the breadth fifty on each side, and the height five cubits of fine linen spun, and their sockets of brass. 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 Brenton And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court shall be of brass. 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.
The Oil for the Lamps (Leviticus 24:1–4)
20 Brenton And do thou charge the children of Israel, and let them take for thee refined pure olive-oil beaten to burn for light, that a lamp may burn continually 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 Brenton in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is before the ark of the covenant, shall Aaron and his sons burn it from evening until morning, before the Lord: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the children of Israel. 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.