Torah Mosheh 2:

Shemot / Exodus Chapter 27

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40

signal_light.gifGo to Index page 

The Bronze Altar of Olah

The image “http://www.messianic-torah-truth-seeker.org/Torah/Overview-Mishkan/ovrvw-mshkn_files/mizbeakh.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

27:1(vi) And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof [shall be] three cubits.

27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

27:3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make [of] brass.

27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network [of] brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

27:5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make [it].

The Outer court, Pillars and Screen

27:9(vii) And thou shalt make the court of the mishkan: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof 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] long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets [of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.

27:12 And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] fifty cubits.

27:14 The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

27:15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits]: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

27:16 And for the gate of the court [shall be] an hanging of twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: [and] their pillars [shall be] four, and their sockets four.

27:17(Maftir)

All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.

27:18 The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass.

27:19 All the vessels of the mishkan in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be of] brass.

Parashah 20:

Tetzavah (You are to order)

27:20-30:10

The Pure Olive Oil for the Menorah

27:20 (i)

Veata tetzaveh et-Benei Yisrael veyikkhu eleikha shemen zayit zakh katit lamaOr lehaalot ner Tamid:

And thou shalt command Benai Yisrael, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

27:21 In the Ohel moed (tent of meeting) without the vail, which [is] before the testimony, Aharon and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before YHWH (יהוה): [it shall be] a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the benai Yisrael.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40

Go to Index page 

 


1) The Copper (Brazen) Altar of Burnt Offering (Mizbeach). Described its Copper Grate, Staves, Rings and the Altar itself with its four horns.

2) The Courtyard (Chatzer) of the Tabernacle. Described its minute details, including length of its fabric sheets, arrangement and elements of the pillars, as well as the materials that were employed in the contrcution of the Courtyard. The dimensions of the courtyard are also shown, and set as 120x60 cubits (or 100x50 cubits if you would count only the length of the fabric sheets).

3) Brief reference is made in regards to special Olive Oil that was used to light the seven golden lamps of the Golden Lampstand (The Menorah)