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Exodus 27:2

1 “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

4 Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
KJV
And 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.
WEB
You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
ASV
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
DARBY
And thou shalt make its horns at the four corners thereof; its horns shall be of itself; and thou shalt overlay it with copper.
BLB
And you shall make its horns on its four corners; from it shall be its horns, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
ÅB
Og du skal gjøre et horn på hvert av dets fire hjørner, og hornene skal være i ett med alteret; og du skal kle det med kobber.
OTB
Lag horn på de fire hjørnene, slik at hornene er i ett stykke med alteret, og dekk det med bronse.
B1930
Og du skal gjøre et horn på hvert av dets fire hjørner, og hornene skal være i ett med alteret; og du skal klæ det med kobber.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 118:27

    The LORD is God; He has made His light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

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  • 1 Kings 1:50

    But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.

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  • Leviticus 4:7

    The priest must then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. And he is to pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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  • Exodus 29:12

    Take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

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  • Leviticus 8:15

    Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it.

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  • 1 Kings 2:28

    When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.

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  • Leviticus 16:18

    Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.

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  • Numbers 16:38–39

    As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”

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