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And make an altar of hard wood , a square altar , five cubits long , five cubits wide and three cubits high .
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Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass .
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And make all its vessels , the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass .
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And make a network of brass , with four brass rings at its four angles.
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And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half -way up the altar .
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And make rods for the altar , of hard wood , plated with brass .
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And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar , for lifting it.
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The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain .
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And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen , a hundred cubits long .
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Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass ; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver .
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And on the north side in the same way , hangings a hundred cubits long , with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass ; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver .
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And for the open space on the west side , the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
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And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
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On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long , with three pillars and three bases;
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And on the other side , hangings fifteen cubits long , with three pillars and three bases.
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And across the doorway , a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen , made of needlework of blue and purple and red , with four pillars and four bases.
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All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass .
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The open space is to be a hundred cubits long , fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high , curtained with the best linen , with bases of brass .
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All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails , and the nails of the open space are to be of brass .
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Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights , so that a light may be burning there at all times.
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Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning , before the Lord , inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever , from generation to generation , to be kept by the children of Israel .