Exodus 27:1-8
The Altar of Burnt Offering
1 “You(A) are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, 7½ feet long, and 7½ feet wide;(a) it must be 4½ feet high.(b)
2 Make horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece.(c) Overlay it with bronze.(B)
3 Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.
4 Construct a grate for it of bronze mesh, and make four bronze rings on the mesh at its four corners.
5 Set it below, under the altar’s ledge,(d) so that the mesh comes halfway up(e) the altar.
6 Then make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, 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.
8 Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain.(C)
Footnotes:
a.
Exodus 27:1: Lit five cubits in length and five cubits in width
b.
Exodus 27:1: Lit wide; and its height three cubits
c.
Exodus 27:2: Lit piece with it
d.
Exodus 27:5: Perhaps a ledge around the altar on which the priests could stand; Lv 9:22
e.
Exodus 27:5: Or altar’s rim, so that the grid comes halfway down