New International Version

Exodus 27:13-21 New International Version (NIV)

13. On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide.

14. Curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on one side of the entrance, with three posts and three bases,

15. and curtains fifteen cubits long are to be on the other side, with three posts and three bases.

16. “For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.

17. All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands and hooks, and bronze bases.

18. The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.

19. All the other articles used in the service of the tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.

20. “Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning.

21. In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.