“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.

  • KJV King James Version

    And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

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Cross-references (9)

Passages linked to Exodus 27:1 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 38:1-7 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits. He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze. He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles. He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze. He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
  • Exodus 20:24-26 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
  • Exodus 24:4 Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Exodus 40:10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy.
  • Exodus 40:29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • 2 Samuel 24:18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
  • 2 Chronicles 4:1 Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
  • Ezekiel 43:13-17 “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit. The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides. The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”
  • Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

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Explain this verse (24 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For the burnt offering.

For the burnt offering.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 27:1 And thou shalt make an altar [of]…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This was not that for incense, but another for…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shall make an altar of shittim wood,....…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In this chapter directions are given,
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain The altar of burnt-offerings, and its dimensions, 1;
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 27:1. Thou shalt make an altar — As…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain (Compare Exo 38:1-7.) The great altar which stood in…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Altar, of holocausts, in the open air, before the…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERINGS, Exo_27:1-8.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 1. the altar] the altar κατʼ ἐξοχήν, if not,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (1) Thou shalt make an altar.—Heb., the altar. It…
C. H. Mackintosh 1880 · Public Domain Exodus 27
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 1-8. THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. From the…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain An altar of shittim wood.
The Expositor's Bible 1887 · Public Domain Exodus 27
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Exo_27:1. An altar of shittim wood.] It was known…
J. R. Dummelow 1909 · Public Domain The Altar of Burnt Offering. The Court of the…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Brazen altar, type of the Cross upon which Christ,…
Arno C. Gaebelein 1922 · Public Domain CHAPTER 27 The Tabernacle Concluded
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain The Altar
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 27:1-19 These plans for the altar of burnt offering…

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