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

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  • WEB World English Bible

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

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    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.

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Cross-references (12)

Passages linked to Exodus 27:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 118:27 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
  • Exodus 29:12 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 base of the altar.
  • Leviticus 4:7 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 shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • 1 Kings 1:50 Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.
  • Leviticus 4:18 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 he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • Leviticus 4:25 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 shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 8:15 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 the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
  • Leviticus 16:18 “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 goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.
  • Numbers 16:38-39 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 them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.” Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
  • 1 Kings 2:28 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 horns of the altar.
  • 1 Kings 8:64 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 meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
  • Hebrews 6:18 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 take hold of the hope set before us.

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Of the same wood and matter not fastened unto…

Of the same wood and matter not fastened unto it.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The horns were elevated above the body of the…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Which were either for ornament, or for keeping what…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The horns of it, were for ornament and for…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. Thou shalt make the horns of it]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 27:2. Thou shalt make the horns of it…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain It. The altar, wood. The horns were for ornament,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 2. Horns — Probably resembling the horns of cattle.…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. the horns of it] these were an indispensable…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) The horns of it.—It is not true to…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The horns of it. Literally, "its horns." Horns were…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Cf. Num 21:9; Joh 3:14; Joh 12:31-33 thus fixing…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 27:2 Archaeology has shown that the horns of the…

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