| New Living Translation | NET 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. | 1"You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches. |
| 2Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze. | 2You are to make its four horns on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, and you are to overlay it with bronze. |
| 3Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze. | 3You are to make its pots for the ashes, its shovels, its tossing bowls, its meat hooks, and its fire pans--you are to make all its utensils of bronze. |
| 4Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners. | 4You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners. |
| 5Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge. | 5You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come halfway up the altar. |
| 6For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. | 6You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze. |
| 7Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar. | 7The poles are to be put into the rings so that the poles will be on two sides of the altar when carrying it. |
| 8The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on the mountain. Plans for the Courtyard | 8You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it. |
| 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. | 9"You are to make the courtyard of the tabernacle. For the south side there are to be hangings for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side, |
| 10They will be held up by twenty posts set securely in twenty bronze bases. Hang the curtains with silver hooks and rings. | 10with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of 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. | 11Likewise for its length on the north side, there are to be hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts. |
| 12The curtains on the west end of the courtyard will be 75 feet long, supported by ten posts set into ten bases. | 12The width of the court on the west side is to be seventy-five feet with hangings, with their ten posts and their ten bases. |
| 13The east end of the courtyard, the front, will also be 75 feet long. | 13The width of the court on the east side, toward the sunrise, is to be seventy-five 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. | 14The hangings on one side of the gate are to be twenty-two and a half feet long, with 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. | 15On the second side there are to be hangings twenty-two and a half feet long, with 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. | 16For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and 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 have silver bands; their hooks are to be silver, and their bases bronze. |
| 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 one hundred fifty feet and the width seventy-five feet, and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings is to be seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases. |
| 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 utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, all its tent pegs, and 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. | 20"You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly. |
| 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 curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come. |
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