The Bronze Altar

(Exodus 27:1–8)

[Bezalel] constructed[fn] the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.[fn] 2 He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns [and altar] were of one piece, and he overlaid [the altar] with bronze.

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He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze — its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans 4 He made a grate of bronze mesh for the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom

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At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles. 6 And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 7 Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it He made [the altar] with boards so that it was hollow.

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