The Bronze Altar

(Exodus 38:1–7)

[“] You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.[fn] 2 Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

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Make all its utensils of bronze — its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans. 4 Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh. 5 Set [the grate] beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

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Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. 7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried

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Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain

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