The Bronze Altar
(Exodus 38:1–7)
“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high. 1 Exo 38:1-72Ch 4:12Sa 24:18Exo 20:24-26Exo 24:4Exo 40:10Exo 40:29Ezk 43:13-17 Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze. Psa 118:271Ki 1:50Exo 29:12Lev 4:71Ki 2:281Ki 8:64Heb 6:18Lev 16:18
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans. 1Ki 7:451Ch 28:171Ki 7:401Sa 2:13-142Ch 4:112Ch 4:162Ki 25:15Exo 24:6 Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh. Exo 25:12Exo 35:16Exo 38:4-5 Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar. Exo 38:4
Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. Exo 30:4Exo 35:13-15Num 4:44 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. Exo 25:28Exo 30:4Num 4:13-14
Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain. Exo 25:40Exo 25:9Heb 8:51Ch 28:111Ch 28:19Col 2:20-23Exo 26:30-37Mat 15:9
The Courtyard
(Exodus 38:9–20)
You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long 2on one side, Exo 38:9-201Ki 6:361Ki 8:642Ch 33:5Exo 26:31-37Exo 36:17Exo 39:40Exo 40:8 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts. Exo 26:19-21Exo 36:38Jer 52:21
Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, 3 with ten posts and ten bases.
The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide. Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, 4 with three posts and three bases, Exo 26:36Exo 27:9 and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, 5 with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases. Exo 26:36Exo 26:31Exo 28:39Exo 36:37Exo 39:29Jdg 5:30Psa 45:14
All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases. The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, 6 with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, 7 and with bronze bases. All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze. Ecc 12:11Exo 27:3Exo 35:18Exo 38:20Exo 38:31Exo 39:40Ezr 9:8Isa 22:23-25
The Oil for the Lamps
(Leviticus 24:1–4)
And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. Lev 24:1-4Psa 23:5Zec 4:11-14Exo 39:37Jdg 9:9Exo 25:31-37Rev 11:4
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, 8 Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come. Num 18:23Num 19:211Sa 3:32Ch 13:11Exo 30:8Lev 16:34Lev 3:171Sa 30:25