Exodus 27: The altar, the court, and oil for the lamp

In plain English: "Make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar is to be square. Its height is to be three cubits.

In plain English: Make its horns on its four corners. The horns are to be of one piece with it. Overlay it with bronze.

In plain English: Make its pots for taking away its ashes, and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. Make all its vessels of bronze.

In plain English: Make a grating for it, a network of bronze. On the network make four bronze rings at its four corners.

In plain English: Put the grating under the ledge around the altar, down below, so that the network reaches halfway up the altar.

In plain English: Make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

In plain English: Its poles are to be put into the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.

In plain English: Make it hollow, with planks. They are to make it as it was shown to you on the mountain.

In plain English: "Make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side there are to be hangings for the court of fine twisted linen, one hundred cubits long on that side.

In plain English: Its pillars are to be twenty, with twenty sockets of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets (bands) are to be of silver.

In plain English: In the same way, on the north side, the hangings are to be one hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars and twenty sockets of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets (bands) are to be of silver.

In plain English: For the width of the court on the west side there are to be hangings of fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten sockets.

In plain English: The width of the court on the east side is to be fifty cubits.

In plain English: The hangings for one side of the gate are to be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three sockets.

In plain English: For the other side there are to be hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three sockets.

In plain English: For the gate of the court there is to be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four pillars and four sockets.

In plain English: All the pillars around the court are to be banded (filleted) with silver. Their hooks are to be of silver and their sockets of bronze.

In plain English: The court is to be one hundred cubits long and fifty wide throughout, and five cubits high, of fine twisted linen, with sockets of bronze.

In plain English: All the instruments (tools) used in the tabernacle's service, and all its pins (tent pegs), and all the pins of the court, are to be of bronze.

In plain English: "Command the Israelites to bring you pure olive oil, beaten for the light, so that a lamp can burn continually.

In plain English: In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is before the covenant (literally: the testimony), Aaron and his sons are to keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh. It is to be a statute (a lasting rule) forever, throughout their generations, on behalf of the Israelites.

The Hebrew words: "Tent of Meeting" is ohel moed. Ohel is "tent", explained at Exodus 26:7. The dictionary gives moed as "properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season" and also "by extension, the place of meeting".

How it is translated: In Exodus this Bible says "meeting" for moed in 33 of the 37 verses that use it. The other 4 verses say "a set time" (9:5), "season" (13:10) or "the time appointed" (23:15 and 34:18).

Good to know: The same Hebrew word moed is "seasons" in Genesis 1:14. In Exodus 29:42 and 29:43 Yahweh says he will meet there: "where I will meet with you" and "I will meet with the children of Israel".