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Exodus 27:9-19. The courtyard. Instructional overhead oblique study of the rectangular linen courtyard enclosure, length twice width, one colored blue-purple-scarlet entrance screen centered on the short eastern side. Plain desert ground inside, no people or service, no buildings outside this courtyard study. Linen hangs between evenly spaced posts. No text or labels. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 27:9-19

The courtyard

The bronze altar · Exodus 27

Story guide: Yahweh describes the linen-walled courtyard and embroidered gate around the tabernacle.

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9And you shall make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side, southward, there shall be hangings for the court of finely twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for one side.

10with its twenty pillars and their twenty bronze bases, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silver.

11And likewise for the north side in length: hangings a hundred cubits long, its twenty pillars and their twenty bronze bases, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be silver.

12And for the width of the court on the west side, there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases.

13And the width of the court on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits.

14Fifteen cubits of hangings for the shoulder, with their three pillars and their three bases.

15And for the second side there shall be fifteen cubits of hangings, with three pillars and their three bases.

16And for the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with their four pillars and their four bases.

17All the pillars around the courtyard shall be banded with silver, with their hooks of silver and their bases of bronze.

18The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty cubits, and the height five cubits, of finely twisted linen, with their bases of bronze.

19All the utensils of the tabernacle for all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the courtyard, shall be bronze.

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