Exodus 27:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.”
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““You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And thou hast made the altar of shittim wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth--the altar is square--and three cubits its height.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 27:1 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 17:15And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.
- Exodus 20:24You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
- Exodus 24:4And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 31:9the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand—
- Exodus 38:1Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- Exodus 39:39the bronze altar with its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;
- Exodus 40:6Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
- Exodus 40:10Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.
- Exodus 40:29He placed the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- Numbers 4:14and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.
- 2 Samuel 24:18And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
- 2 Chronicles 4:1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
- Ezra 3:2Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
- Ezekiel 43:13These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- Ezekiel 43:15The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
- Ezekiel 43:16The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
- Hebrews 13:10We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
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