5. Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
6. Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
7. The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
8. Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
9. “Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits 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 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 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 twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.