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Exodus 27:1-8

“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. You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze. You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze. You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

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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.

    You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.

    You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.

    You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.

    You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

    You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

    Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.

    You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

  • 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.

    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.

    And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

    And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

    And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

    And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

    And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

    Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

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  • 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.

    And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it; and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

    And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

    And thou shalt make for it a grating of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.

    And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

    And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with brass.

    And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.

    Hollow with planks shalt thou make it; as it hath been shown thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

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Cross-references (51)

  • Psalms 118:27 (v2) Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
  • Exodus 25:40 (v8) See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
  • Exodus 25:9 (v8) According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
  • Exodus 38:1-7 (v1) 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…
  • 1 Kings 7:45 (v3) the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished…
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  • Exodus 29:12 (v2) You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the…
  • Leviticus 4:7 (v2) The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he…
  • 1 Kings 1:50 (v2) Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.
  • Hebrews 8:5 (v8) who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said,…
  • Exodus 30:4 (vv6–7) You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for…
  • Exodus 20:24-26 (v1) 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…
  • Exodus 24:4 (v1) 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…
  • Exodus 24:6 (v3) Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
  • Exodus 25:12 (v4) You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the…
  • Exodus 25:28 (v7) You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
  • Exodus 26:30-37 (v8) You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain. “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple,…
  • Exodus 35:13-15 (v6) the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread; the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the…
  • Exodus 35:16 (v4) the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
  • Exodus 38:3 (v3) 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.
  • Exodus 38:4 (v5) He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
  • Exodus 38:4-5 (v4) 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…
  • Exodus 40:10 (v1) 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 (v1) 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…
  • Leviticus 4:18 (v2) He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood…
  • Leviticus 4:25 (v2) The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He…
  • Leviticus 8:15 (v2) He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out…
  • Leviticus 16:12 (v3) He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it…
  • Leviticus 16:18 (v2) “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the…
  • Numbers 4:13-14 (v7) “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. They shall put on it all its vessels with which they…
  • Numbers 4:14 (v3) They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the…
  • Numbers 4:44 (v6) even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.
  • Numbers 16:38-39 (v2) even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered…
  • 1 Samuel 2:13-14 (v3) The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling,…
  • 2 Samuel 24:18 (v1) 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.”
  • 1 Kings 2:28 (v2) This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the…
  • 1 Kings 7:40 (v3) Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:
  • 1 Kings 8:64 (v2) The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the…
  • 2 Kings 25:15 (v3) The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
  • 1 Chronicles 28:11 (v8) Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its…
  • 1 Chronicles 28:17 (v3) and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by…
  • 1 Chronicles 28:19 (v8) “All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
  • 2 Chronicles 4:1 (v1) Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
  • 2 Chronicles 4:11 (v3) Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house:
  • 2 Chronicles 4:16 (v3) Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright bronze.
  • Jeremiah 52:18-20 (v3) They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.…
  • Ezekiel 43:13-17 (v1) “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…
  • Matthew 15:9 (v8) And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
  • Colossians 2:20-23 (v8) If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, “Don’t…
  • Hebrews 6:18 (v2) that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to…
  • Hebrews 13:10 (v1) We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv1–4 For the burnt offering.

For the burnt offering.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 3, 4, 7 Exo 27:1 And thou shalt make an altar [of]…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 This was not that for incense, but another for…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On v1 As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv1–8 And thou shall make an altar of shittim wood,....…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 4 In this chapter directions are given,
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 3, 4, 8 The altar of burnt-offerings, and its dimensions, 1;
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 4 Exo 27:1. Thou shalt make an altar — As…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v1 (Compare Exo 38:1-7.) The great altar which stood in…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 3, 5 Altar, of holocausts, in the open air, before the…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv3–6 shovels--fire shovels for scraping together any of the scattered…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv1–4 THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERINGS, Exo_27:1-8.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv1–8 1. the altar] the altar κατʼ ἐξοχήν, if not,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 (1) Thou shalt make an altar.—Heb., the altar. It…
C. H. Mackintosh 1880 · Public Domain On v1 Exodus 27
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 Vers. 1-8. THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. From the…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v1 An altar of shittim wood.
The Expositor's Bible 1887 · Public Domain On v1 Exodus 27
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain On v1 Exo_27:1. An altar of shittim wood.] It was known…
J. R. Dummelow 1909 · Public Domain On v1 The Altar of Burnt Offering. The Court of the…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On vv1, 2, 6 Brazen altar, type of the Cross upon which Christ,…
Arno C. Gaebelein 1922 · Public Domain On v1 CHAPTER 27 The Tabernacle Concluded
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v1 The Altar
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv1, 3, 5, 7 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv1, 2, 5 27:1-19 These plans for the altar of burnt offering…
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