Exodus 27:6

Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar of setim wood, which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate shall be even to the midst of the altar.

7And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both sides of the altar to carry it.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:4And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.

Numbers 4:44And they were found three thousand 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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