Chapter 27
1 Use acacia wood to build an altar 2.25 meters square and 1.34 meters high,
2 and make each of the four top corners stick up like the horn of a bull. Then cover the whole altar with bronze, including the four horns.
3 All the equipment for the altar must also be made of bronze—the pans for the hot ashes, the shovels, the sprinkling bowls, the meat forks, and the fire pans.
4 Construct the altar in the shape of an open box, just as you were shown on the mountain. The Lord said:
5 Place three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hang a curtain 6.67 meters wide on each set of posts.
6 Use four more of these posts for the entrance way, then hang on them an embroidered curtain of fine linen nine meters long and woven with blue, purple, and red wool.
7 Make the rest of the equipment for the sacred tent of bronze, including the pegs for the tent and for the curtain surrounding the courtyard. The Lord said to Moses:
8 Command the people of Israel to supply you with the purest olive oil. Do this so the lamp will keep burning
9 in front of the curtain that separates the holy place from the most holy place, where the sacred chest is kept. Aaron and his sons are responsible for keeping the lamp burning every night in the sacred tent. The Israelites must always obey this command.