The Tabernacle

Exoduschapter 27

21 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 136 cross-references outward and receives 82 — heaviest partner: Exodus.

Chapter summary

The bronze altar and the court. An altar of shittim wood overlaid with brass, hollow with boards, four horns at the corners, pans and shovels and basins and fleshhooks and firepans all of brass. Staves for bearing. The court — a hundred cubits long, fifty wide — hung with fine twined linen on silver-filleted brass-socketed pillars. The gate of the court twenty cubits long with an hanging of blue, purple, and scarlet. Pure oil olive beaten for the light; Aaron and his sons to order it from evening to morning — ‘a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel’.

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Law · Moses — see the Exodus overview for the book's full setting.

1–21 The Tabernacle

1 And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

3 And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grating of network of brass: and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.

5 And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

7 And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.

8 Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.