The Courtyard

“You(A) are to make the courtyard for the tabernacle. Make the hangings on the south of the courtyard out of finely spun linen, 150 feet[a] long on that side. 10 There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands[b] of the posts must be silver. 11 Then make the hangings on the north side 150 feet[c] long. There are to be 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands[d] of the posts must be silver. 12 Make the hangings of the courtyard on the west side 75 feet[e] long, including their 10 posts and 10 bases. 13 Make the hangings of the courtyard on the east side toward the sunrise 75 feet.[f] 14 Make the hangings on one side of the gate 22½ feet,[g] including their three posts and their three bases. 15 And make the hangings on the other side 22½ feet,[h] including their three posts and their three bases. 16 The gate of the courtyard is to have a thirty-foot[i] screen(B) embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It is to have four posts including their four bases.

17 “All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases. 18 The length of the courtyard is to be 150 feet, the width 75 feet at each end, and the height 7½ feet,[j] all of it made of finely spun linen. The bases of the posts must be bronze. 19 All the tools of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 27:9 Lit 100 cubits
  2. Exodus 27:10 Or connecting rods
  3. Exodus 27:11 Lit 100 [cubits]
  4. Exodus 27:11 Or connecting rods
  5. Exodus 27:12 Lit 50 cubits
  6. Exodus 27:13 Lit 50 cubits
  7. Exodus 27:14 Lit 15 cubits
  8. Exodus 27:15 Lit 15 [cubits]
  9. Exodus 27:16 Lit twenty-cubit
  10. Exodus 27:18 Lit be 100 by the cubit, and the width 50 by 50, and the height five cubits

The Courtyard(A)

“Make a courtyard(B) for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits[a] long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen, 10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. 11 The north side shall also be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

12 “The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits[b] wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. 13 On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide. 14 Curtains fifteen cubits[c] 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(C) twenty cubits[d] long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer(D)—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,[e] with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits[f] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 27:9 That is, about 150 feet or about 45 meters; also in verse 11
  2. Exodus 27:12 That is, about 75 feet or about 23 meters; also in verse 13
  3. Exodus 27:14 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters; also in verse 15
  4. Exodus 27:16 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters
  5. Exodus 27:18 That is, about 150 feet long and 75 feet wide or about 45 meters long and 23 meters wide
  6. Exodus 27:18 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters