Building the Court Exodus 38:9-21
A fence circling a court, was made to be set up around the Tabernacle, and to be taken apart to carry on the journeys. It had 60 strong pillars; each capped with silver, and to he set into brass sockets. Linen curtains were made to hang between the pillars, with silver hooks and rods to hold them close. There were also cords held by brass pins.
This court formed a space 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide (a cubit is about 11/2 feet), and it was 5 cubits high.
The entrance to the court was at the east end, and the curtains of it were worked in colors.
A large altar of wood, overlaid with brass, was made to be set inside the court, where the sacrifices to God were burned. The grates, ash-pans, hooks and basons were of brass.
A brass laver was made to hold water where the men who offered the sacrifices were to wash. The size and shape of the laver are not given, but it was made of brass looking glasses given by the women, so it must have been very smooth and shiny.
When the people would look at the white curtains they knew only what was pure should be within, and they knew none could enter there without a sacrifice for sins. And we learn from this the same lesson: all must be pure from sin to enter God’s presence.
But since that time God has given a better sacrifice for sins, the Lord Jesus, so we no more offer animals.
“Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29.
ML 06/27/1937