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Exodus 27:1 KJV
Exodus · chapter 27 · verse 1
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.Exodus 27:1 · King James Version
Exodus 27:1 in context
1And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
2And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
3And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- foursquarerâbaʻto be quadrateH7251 →
- shittimshiṭṭâhthe acaciaH7848 →
- cubitsʼammâhproperly, a motherH520 →
- heightqôwmâhheightH6967 →
- altarmizbêachan altarH4196 →
- broadrôchabwidthH7341 →
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As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God's domestic servants), but in the court before the tabernacle, where, as common subjects, they attended.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8