Exodus Chapter 27

Altar of shittim wood

27:1 AND you will make an altar [of] shittim
Trees and shrubs. Shittim tree at Engedi. (Ancacia Seyal Del.) LOC matpc.14961ושִׁטִּים
Shittah tree (Hebrew: שטה) or the plural “shittim” was used in the Tanakh to refer to trees belonging to the genera Vachellia and Faidherbia (both formerly classed in Acacia). Faidherbia albida, Vachellia seyal, Vachellia tortilis, and Vachellia gerrardii can be found growing wild in the Sinai Desert and the Jordan River Valley.For more info click here
wood, five cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. long, and five cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. broad ; the altar shall be foursquare and the height of it [shall be] three cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’.

27:2 And you will make the horns of it on the four corners of its horns shall be of the same and you will overlay it with brass.
27:3 And you will make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basons, and its fleshhooks, and its firepans all the vessels of it you will make [of] brass.
27:4 And you will make for it a grate (or sieve) of network [of] brass ; and upon the net will you make four brasen rings in the four corners of it.
27:5 And you will put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the middle of the altar.
27:6 And you will make staves-a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure. for the altar, staves-a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure. [of] shittim
Trees and shrubs. Shittim tree at Engedi. (Ancacia Seyal Del.) LOC matpc.14961ושִׁטִּים
Shittah tree (Hebrew: שטה) or the plural “shittim” was used in the Tanakh to refer to trees belonging to the genera Vachellia and Faidherbia (both formerly classed in Acacia). Faidherbia albida, Vachellia seyal, Vachellia tortilis, and Vachellia gerrardii can be found growing wild in the Sinai Desert and the Jordan River Valley.For more info click here
wood, and overlay them with bronze.
27:7 And the staves-a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure. shall be put into the rings, and the staves-a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure. shall be on the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
27:8 Hollow with boards will you make it as it was shown you on the mount, so shall they make [it].

The court


27:9 And you will make the court of the tabernacleמִשְׁכָּן
Transliteration: miškān dwelling place, tabernacle For more info click here
for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. long for one side
27:10 And the twenty pillars of it and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass ; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be of] silver.
27:11 And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be] hangings of an hundred [cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’.] long, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass ; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.
27:12 And [for] the width of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
27:13 And the width of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’..
27:14 The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. their pillars three, and their sockets three.
27:15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’.] their pillars three, and their sockets three.
27:16 And for the gate of the court [shall be] an hanging of twenty cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’., [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, worked with needlework [and] their pillars [shall be] four, and their sockets four.
27:17 All the pillars around the court [shall be] filleted with silver ; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.

The measure of the court of the tabernacle


27:18 The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’., and the width fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits noun — an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm. — ORIGIN Middle English : from Latin cubitum ‘elbow, forearm, cubit’. [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass.
27:19 All the vessels of the tabernacleמִשְׁכָּן
Transliteration: miškān dwelling place, tabernacle For more info click here
in all the service of it, and all the pins of it, and all the pins (or nails, or stakes) of the court, [shall be of] brass.

Oil for the lamp


27:20 And you will command the sons of Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
27:21 In the tabernacleמִשְׁכָּן
Transliteration: miškān dwelling place, tabernacle For more info click here
of the congregation without the veil, which [is] before the testimony, Aaronאַהֲרוֹן
Aaron is an English masculine given name. The ‘h’ phoneme in the original Hebrew pronunciation “Aharon” (אהרן) is dropped in the Greek, Ἀαρών, from which the English form, Aaron, is derived. The brother of Moses, is described in the Torah, the Quran and the Baha’i Iqan. The origin of the biblical name is uncertain; however, an Ancient Egyptian origin may indicate “aha rw” meaning “warrior lion”, For more info click here
and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
[it shall be] a statute forever to their generations on the behalf of the sons of Israel.

 

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