27:9–19 The next set of instructions described a courtyard to encompass the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, bronze basin, and a space for presenting animals for slaughter or whole offering to the Lord. The south, north, west, and east sides of the courtyard were each to have hanging curtains (qelaʿ) of finely twisted linen. The linen was not dyed, so it was presumably an off-white flaxen color. The people were to hang them from the posts (probably made of acacia wood and perhaps overlaid with bronze) with silver hooks. The Hebrew is list-like: literally, “posts . . . and bases: bronze.” They added silver bands around the posts for att…