Exodus 27:8
The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
In Context
7And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
Cross References
Exodus 25:9Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.
Exodus 26:30And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain.
1 Chronicles 28:19All this, said David, the design for all these things, has been made dear to me in writing by the hand of the Lord.
Colossians 2:20If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders
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 →