Common English Bible

Exodus 27:6-14 Common English Bible (CEB)

6. Make acacia-wood poles for the altar and cover them with copper.

7. Put the poles through the rings so that the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.

8. Make the altar with planks but hollow inside. All these should be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

9. You should also set up the dwelling’s courtyard. The courtyard’s south side should have drapes of fine twisted linen stretching one hundred fifty feet on that side,

10. with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts.

11. Likewise along the north side the drapes should stretch one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts, twenty copper bases, and silver hooks and bands for the posts.

12. The courtyard’s width on the west side should consist of seventy-five feet of drapes with their ten posts and their ten bases.

13. The courtyard’s width on the front, facing east should be seventy-five feet.

14. There should be twenty-two and a half feet of drapes on one side with three posts and three bases for them.