Exodus 27:6

And thou shall make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

In Context

5And thou shall put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the network may reach halfway up the altar.

7And the staves of it shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:4And two golden rings thou shall make for it under the crown of it, upon the two ribs of it, upon the two sides of it thou shall make them. And they shall be for places for staves with which to bear it.

Numbers 4:44even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 27:2-9

The Tabernacle and Its Furniture. ( b. c. 1491.) 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. 2 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. 3 And 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… Read the whole commentary →

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