Exodus 27:6

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, and the net shall reach even to the half of the altar.

7And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, when they bear it.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:4And two rings of gold shalt thou make for it beneath its crown, on its two corners shalt thou make them, upon both its sides; and they shall be as receptacles for the staves to bear it by means of them.

Numbers 4:44Even those that were numbered of them after 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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