The Bronze Altar (Exodus 38:1–7)
1 UDB "Tell them to make an altar from acacia wood. It is to be square, two and one-tenth meters long on each side, and make it one and one-third meters high. 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 UDB They must make pans in which to put the ashes from the animal sacrifices. Also they must make shovels for cleaning out the ashes, basins, and forks for turning the meat as it cooks, and buckets for carrying hot coals. All of these things must be made from bronze. 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 UDB Also tell them to make a bronze grating to hold the wood and burning coals. They must fasten to each of the corners of the altar a bronze ring for carrying the altar. 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 UDB They must put the grating under the rim that is around the altar. They must 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 UDB For carrying the altar, they must make poles 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 UDB They must put the poles through the rings on each side of the altar. The poles are for carrying the altar. 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 UDB The altar will be like a box, made from boards of acacia wood. 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.
The Courtyard (Exodus 38:9–20)
9 UDB Around the sacred tent there is to be a courtyard. To form the courtyard, tell them to make curtains of fine linen. On the south side, the curtain is to be forty-four meters long. 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 UDB To support the curtain, tell them to make twenty bronze posts, and one bronze base for each post. To fasten the curtains to the posts, they must make silver hooks, and metal rods covered with silver to fasten the curtains to the hooks. BSB BSB: with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
11 UDB They must make the same kind of curtains for the north side of the courtyard. 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 UDB On the west side of the courtyard they must make a curtain twenty-two meters long. The curtains are to be supported by 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 UDB On the east side, where the entrance is, the courtyard must also be twenty-two meters wide. BSB BSB: The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
14 UDB Tell them to make a curtain seven meters wide with three posts and three bases for each side of the entrance to the courtyard. BSB BSB: Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
16 UDB They must make a curtain from finely twined linen nine meters long for the entrance. A skilled weaver must embroider it with blue, purple, and red yarn. It must be supported by 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 UDB All the posts around the courtyard must have bands of silver around them. The clasps must be made of silver, and the bases must be made of bronze. BSB BSB: All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
18 UDB The whole courtyard, from the east entrance to the west end, must be forty-six meters long and twenty-three meters wide, and the curtains that enclose it must be two and one-third meters high. All the curtains must be made of fine linen, and all the bases under the posts must be made of 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 UDB All the things that are not made of gold that are to be used inside the sacred tent and in the courtyard, and all the tent pegs to support the sacred tent and the curtains, must be made of 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.
The Oil for the Lamps (Leviticus 24:1–4)
20 UDB Command the Israelite people that they must bring to you the best kind of pure olive oil to burn in the lamp. They must bring this oil to you 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 UDB Outside the curtain of the tabernacle, where the sacred chest of Yahweh is kept, Aaron and his sons must take care to keep the lamps burning every day from evening to morning. The Israelite people 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.
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