The Bronze Altar
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"You shall make a an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide - the altar shall be square - and its height shall be three cubits.
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"You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze.
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"Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
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"You shall make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
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"You shall put it under the rim of the altar beneath, that the network may be midway up the altar.
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"And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
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"The poles shall be put in the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to bear it.
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"You shall make it hollow with boards; b as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
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Cross References
Exodus 38:1
He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length and five cubits its width - it was square - and its height was three cubits.
Ezekiel 43:13
These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:
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Cross References
Exodus 25:40
And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
Exodus 26:30
And you shall raise up the tabernacle according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.
Acts 7:44
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen.
Hebrews 8:5
Who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.