Exodus 38:1

Making the Altar of Burnt Offering

1 Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide,^[a] and was four and a half feet^[b] high.

Exodus 38:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 1-7. And he made the altar of burnt offering
That is,Exodus 38:2

(See Gill on Exodus 38:1).

Exodus 38:1 In-Context

1 Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide, and was four and a half feet high.

2 He made horns for it on its four corners; the horns were of one piece. Then he overlaid it with bronze.

3 He made all the altar's utensils: the pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

4 He constructed for the altar a grate of bronze mesh under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

5 At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.

Footnotes

• [a] Lit five cubits its length and five cubits its width
• [b] Lit three cubits