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The Court of the Tabernacle(A)

You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side there shall be curtains for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long[a] for one side; 10 and it shall have twenty pillars with twenty bronze sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver. 11 Likewise for the north side in length there shall be curtains one hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

12 For the width of the court on the west side shall be curtains of fifty cubits[b] with their ten pillars and their ten sockets. 13 The width of the court on the east side shall be fifty cubits. 14 The curtains on one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits[c] with their three pillars and their three sockets. 15 On the other side shall be curtains fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three sockets.

16 For the gate of the court there shall be a curtain of twenty cubits,[d] of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with their four pillars and their four sockets. 17 All the pillars around about the court shall be furnished with silver bands. Their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of bronze. 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty[e] throughout, and the height five cubits[f] of fine twisted linen, and their sockets of bronze. 19 All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the court shall be of bronze.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 27:9 About 150 feet, or 45 meters; and in v. 11.
  2. Exodus 27:12 About 75 feet, or 23 meters; and in v. 13.
  3. Exodus 27:14 About 23 feet, or 6.8 meters; and in v. 15.
  4. Exodus 27:16 About 30 feet, or 9 meters.
  5. Exodus 27:18 About 150 feet long and 75 feet wide, or 45 meters long and 23 meters wide.
  6. Exodus 27:18 About 7½ feet, or 2.3 meters.