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Make an altar from acacia wood. Make it square: two and a half meters long on each side and one and a half meters tall. 2 Make a {projection that looks like a} horn on each of the top corners. Make them from the same block of wood as the altar. Cover the whole altar with bronze. 3 Make all its implements from bronze. Make pans to collect the ashes from burning the fat, shovels {for cleaning out the ashes}, basins, forks {for turning the meat as it cooks}, and buckets {for carrying hot coals}. 4 Make a bronze lattice grating {to hold the wood and burning coals}. Fasten a bronze ring to each of the four corners of the grate. 5 Put the grating under the rim that is around the altar. Make it so that it is inside the altar, halfway down. 6 Make poles for {carrying} the altar from acacia wood and cover them with bronze. 7 Put the poles through the rings on each side of the altar to carry it. 8 Make the altar from boards and make it hollow in the middle. They must make it according to these instructions that I am giving you here on this mountain.9 Also make a courtyard around the sacred tent with more curtains of fine linen. For the south side, hang 50 meters of curtain 10 from 20 {bronze} posts. {Make} 20 bronze bases for the posts and hooks on them and silver connectors. 11 And likewise for the north side {of the courtyard: hang} 50 meters of curtains from 20 posts, with their 20 bronze bases, hooks, and silver connectors. 12 {Make} a curtain 25 meters long along the west side of the courtyard. {Support them} with ten posts, with a base under each post. 13 On the east side the courtyard must also be 25 meters wide. 14 {Make} a curtain seven and a half meters long for one side {of the entrance}, with three posts and bases. 15 {Make} another curtain seven and a half meters long for the other side {of the entrance}, also with three posts and bases. 16 {Make} a curtain from finely twined linen ten meters wide for the courtyard entrance. A skilled weaver must embroider it with blue, purple, and red yarn. {Hang it} from four posts, each one with a base under it. 17 Make all the ends of posts around the courtyard have rounded silver ends. Make the clasps from silver, and the bases from bronze. 18 Make the whole courtyard, {from the east entrance to the west end}, 50 meters long and 25 meters wide, and {the curtains that enclose it} two and a half meters high. Make all the curtains from fine linen, and all the bases {under the posts} from bronze. 19 Make all the things {that are not made of gold} that are for use inside the sacred tent {and in the courtyard}, and all the tent pegs to support the sacred tent and the curtains that form the courtyard from bronze.
20 Command the Israelites to bring you purified oil squeezed from olives, so that the lamp is always burning. 21 In the outer part of the sacred tent, outside the curtain where the sacred chest is, Aaron and his sons must take care to keep the lamps burning every night from evening to morning for Yahweh. The Israelites must obey this regulation throughout all future generations.