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		Ex 27:1 "And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.
		Ex 27:2 "Make horns (horn-shaped projections) for it on its four corners; the horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
		Ex 27:3 "You shall make pots to remove its ashes, and shovels, basins [to catch the blood of the sacrificed animal], meat-forks, and firepans [to store live coals]. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.
		Ex 27:4 "Also make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the grid you are to make four bronze rings at its four corners.
		Ex 27:5 "And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the grid will extend halfway up the altar.
		Ex 27:6 "You shall make [carrying] poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, overlaid with bronze.
		Ex 27:7 "The poles shall be inserted through the rings on the two sides of the altar so that it may be carried. [Num 4:14, 15]
		Ex 27:8 "You are to make the altar hollow with planks; as you were shown on the mountain [of Sinai], so shall it be made.
		Ex 27:9 ¶ "You shall make the court of the tabernacle. The south side of the court is to have curtains of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side;
		Ex 27:10 it shall have twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver;
		Ex 27:11 likewise for the north side there shall be curtains, a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver.
		Ex 27:12 "For the width of the court on the west side there shall be curtains of fifty cubits, with ten pillars (support poles) and ten sockets.
		Ex 27:13 "The width of the court [to the front], on the east side shall be fifty cubits.
		Ex 27:14 "The curtains for one side [of the gate] shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.
		Ex 27:15 "On the other side [of the gate] the curtains shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.
		Ex 27:16 "For the gate of the court there shall be a screen [to provide a covering] of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and finely woven [embroidered] linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four pillars and four [base] sockets.
		Ex 27:17 "All the pillars (support poles) around the court shall be joined together with silver rods; their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of bronze.
		Ex 27:18 "The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty [cubits] throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their sockets of bronze.
		Ex 27:19 "All the tabernacle's utensils and instruments used in all its service, and all its stakes, and all the stakes for the court, shall be of bronze.
		Ex 27:20 ¶ "You shall command the Israelites to provide you with clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually [every night].
		Ex 27:21 "In the Tent of Meeting [of God with His people], outside the veil which is in front of the [ark of the] Testimony [and sets it apart], Aaron [the high priest] and his sons shall keep the lamp burning from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a perpetual statute [to be observed] throughout their generations on behalf of the Israelites.

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