---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Exodus from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 27
verse_count: 21
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Exodus, chap. 27, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Exodus 27

*The altar, with the vessels thereof— The court of the tabernacle.*

**1** And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
**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.
**3** And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans; and all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
**4** And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.
**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.
**6** And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
**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.
**8** Hollow with boards shalt thou make it; as it was showed thee in the mount, so shalt thou make it.
**9** And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle; for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of a hundred cubits long for one side;
**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.
**11** And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
**12** their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
**13** And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
**14** The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
**15** And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
**16** And for the gate of the court shall be a 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.
**17** All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
**18** The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
**19** All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
**20** And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
**21** In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord; it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.