Exodus 27:12-18

27:12 The width of the court on the west side is to be seventy-five feet with hangings, with their ten posts and their ten bases. 27:13 The width of the court on the east side, toward the sunrise, is to be seventy-five feet. 27:14 The hangings on one side ¹  of the gate are to be ²  twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 27:15 On the second side ³  there are to be ⁴  hangings twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases. 27:16 For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases. 27:17 All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands; ⁵  their hooks are to be ⁶  silver, and their bases bronze. 27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ⁷  and the width seventy-five feet, ⁸  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ⁹  is to be ¹⁰  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases.

¹ tn The word literally means “shoulder.” The next words, “of the gate,” have been supplied here and in v. 15. The east end would contain the courtyard’s entry with a wall of curtains on each side of the entry (see v. 16).

² tn Here “will be” has been supplied.

¹ tn Heb “shoulder.”

² tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

¹ tn The text uses the passive participle here: they are to “be filleted with silver” or “bound round” with silver.

² tn Here the phrase “are to be” has been supplied.

¹ tn Heb “a hundred cubits.”

² tn Heb “fifty.” The text has “and the width fifty [cubits] with fifty.” This means that it is fifty cubits wide on the western end and fifty cubits wide on the eastern end.

³ tn Here “hangings” has been supplied.

⁴ tn Here the phrase “is to be” has been supplied.