Exodus 27:8
6 Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
9 You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
- KJV
- Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
- WEB
- You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
- ASV
- Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
- DARBY
- Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it hath been shewn thee on the mountain, so shall they make [it].
- BLB
- Hollow, of boards, you shall make it; as it was shown you on the mountain; so shall they make [it].
- ÅB
- Alteret skal du gjøre av bord; det skal være hult; som det ble vist deg på fjellet, slik skal det gjøres.
- OTB
- Bygg det hult med planker, slik det ble vist deg på fjellet, slik skal det lages.
- B1930
- Alteret skal du gjøre av bord; det skal være hult; som det blev vist dig på fjellet, således skal det gjøres.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 25:40
See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
Read in contextExodus 25:9
You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.
Read in contextHebrews 8:5
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
Read in context1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
Read in contextMatthew 15:9
They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
Read in context1 Chronicles 28:19
“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”
Read in contextExodus 26:30–37
So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
Read in contextColossians 2:20–23
If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
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