Exodus
Chapter 27
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five Lengths of about a forearm each. long and five Lengths of about a forearm each. wide. The altar shall be square, and its height three Lengths of about a forearm each..
2You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
3You shall make its pots for taking away its fat-ash, its shovels, its basins, its forks, and its fire-pans. For all its utensils you shall use bronze.
4You shall make a grate for it, a net of bronze, and you shall make on the net four bronze rings, on its four ends.
5You shall put it under the ledge of the altar, below, and the net shall reach halfway up the altar.
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Karkov is the ledge, the rim that projects. The net sits under it.
6You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
7Its poles shall be brought into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.
8You shall make it hollow, of boards. As he showed you on the mountain, so they shall make it.
9You shall make the courtyard of the dwelling. For the south side, to the south, hangings for the courtyard of twisted fine linen, a hundred Lengths of about a forearm each. long for the one side,
10its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.
11Likewise for the north side, in length, hangings a hundred long, and its pillar twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.
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The written form is ועמדו, “and its pillar,” singular. The Masoretic reading is ועמודיו, “and its pillars.” The written singular is printed. The number that follows is twenty.
12The width of the courtyard on the west side: hangings of fifty Lengths of about a forearm each., their pillars ten, and their bases ten.
13The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward sunrise: fifty Lengths of about a forearm each..
14Fifteen Lengths of about a forearm each. of hangings for the shoulder, their pillars three, and their bases three.
15For the other shoulder, fifteen Lengths of about a forearm each. of hangings, their pillars three, and their bases three.
16For the gate of the courtyard, a screen of twenty Lengths of about a forearm each., of violet-blue, purple, scarlet, and twisted fine linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four, and their bases four.
17All the pillars of the courtyard all around shall be banded with silver, their hooks silver, and their bases bronze.
18The length of the courtyard a hundred Lengths of about a forearm each., the width fifty by fifty, and the height five Lengths of about a forearm each., of twisted fine linen, and their bases bronze.
19All the utensils of the dwelling, in all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the courtyard, shall be bronze.
20You shall command the sons of Israel, and they shall bring you pure beaten olive oil for the light, to keep a lamp going regularly.
21In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is over the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest., Aaron and his sons shall arrange it from evening until morning before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through their generations, from the sons of Israel.
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Ohel mo‘ed is the tent of meeting. It is the tent where Yahweh meets them. The name is not shortened to “tabernacle.”