| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1“Using acacia wood, construct a square altar 7 1/2 feet wide, 7 1/2 feet long, and 4 1/2 feet high. | 1You are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, 7 1/2 feet long, and 7 1/2 feet wide; it must be 4 1/2 feet high. |
| 2Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze. | 2Make horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece. Overlay it with bronze. |
| 3Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze. | 3Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze. |
| 4Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners. | 4Construct a grate for it of bronze mesh, and make four bronze rings on the mesh at its four corners. |
| 5Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge. | 5Set it below, under the altar's ledge, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar. |
| 6For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. | 6Then make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. |
| 7Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar. | 7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. |
| 8The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on the mountain. Plans for the Courtyard | 8Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain." |
| 9“Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long. | 9You are to make the courtyard for the tabernacle. Make the hangings on the south of the courtyard out of finely spun linen, 150 feet long on that side. |
| 10They will be held up by twenty posts set securely in twenty bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings. | 10There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts must be silver. |
| 11Make the curtains the same on the north side—150 feet of curtains held up by twenty posts set securely in bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings. | 11Then make the hangings on the north side 150 feet long. There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts must be silver. |
| 12The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long, supported by ten posts set into ten bases. | 12Make the hangings of the courtyard on the west side 75 feet long, including their 10 posts and 10 bases. |
| 13The east end of the courtyard, the front, will also be 75 feet long. | 13Make the hangings of the courtyard on the east side toward the sunrise 75 feet. |
| 14The courtyard entrance will be on the east end, flanked by two curtains. The curtain on the right side will be 22 1/2 feet long, supported by three posts set into three bases. | 14Make the hangings on one side of the gate 22 1/2 feet, including their three posts and their three bases. |
| 15The curtain on the left side will also be 22 1/2 feet long, supported by three posts set into three bases. | 15And make the hangings on the other side 22 1/2 feet, including their three posts and their three bases. |
| 16“For the entrance to the courtyard, make a curtain that is 30 feet long. Make it from finely woven linen, and decorate it with beautiful embroidery in blue, purple, and scarlet thread. Support it with four posts, each securely set in its own base. | 16The gate of the courtyard is to have a thirty-foot screen embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It is to have four posts including their four bases." |
| 17All the posts around the courtyard must have silver rings and hooks and bronze bases. | 17All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases. |
| 18So the entire courtyard will be 150 feet long and 75 feet wide, with curtain walls 7 1/2 feet high, made from finely woven linen. The bases for the posts will be made of bronze. | 18The length of the courtyard is to be 150 feet, the width 75 feet at each end, and the height 7 1/2 feet, all of it made of finely spun linen. The bases of the posts must be bronze. |
| 19“All the articles used in the rituals of the Tabernacle, including all the tent pegs used to support the Tabernacle and the courtyard curtains, must be made of bronze. Light for the Tabernacle | 19All the tools of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze." |
| 20“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. | 20You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually. |
| 21The lampstand will stand in the Tabernacle, in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant. Aaron and his sons must keep the lamps burning in the LORD’s presence all night. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel, and it must be observed from generation to generation. | 21In the tent of meeting outside the veil that is in front of the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp from evening until morning before the LORD. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites throughout their generations." |
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