Exodus Chapter 27

The name Exodus means "exit". This book tells how God liberated Israelites from a life of misery and slavery in Egypt. God made a pact with them and gave them laws to order and govern their lives.

American King James Version

27 : 1 And you shall make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

27 : 2 And you shall make the horns of it on the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and you shall overlay it with brass.

27 : 3 And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his meat hooks, and his fire pans: all the vessels thereof you shall make of brass.

27 : 4 And you shall make for it a grate of network of brass; and on the net shall you make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.

27 : 5 And you shall put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the middle of the altar.

27 : 6 And you shall make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

27 : 7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be on the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

27 : 8 Hollow with boards shall you make it: as it was showed you in the mount, so shall they make it.

27 : 9 And you shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

27 : 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

27 : 11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

27 : 12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

27 : 13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

27 : 14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

27 : 15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

27 : 16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, worked with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

27 : 17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

27 : 18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

27 : 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

27 : 20 And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

27 : 21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever to their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.