Exodus 27:1-8

1 “Using acacia wood, construct a square altar 7 feet wide, 7 feet long, and 4 feet high.

2 Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze.

3 Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.

4 Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners.

5 Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.

6 For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

7 Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar.

8 The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 27:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 27

This chapter treats of the altar of burnt offering, and of all things relative to it, Ex 27:1-8, of the court of the tabernacle, its hangings on each side, with pillars, sockets, and hooks for them, Ex 27:9-19 and it is concluded with an order to the Israelites to bring oil olive for the lamp of the sanctuary, Ex 27:20,21.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew 5 cubits [2.3 meters] wide, 5 cubits long, a square, and 3 cubits [1.4 meters] high.