Exodus 38:6

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with copper.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

In Context

5And he cast four rings on the four corners of the grating of copper, as receptacles for the staves.

7And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it by means of them; hollow, of boards, made he it.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:3And I made an ark of shittim-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and I went up into the mount, with the two tables in my hand.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 38:2-9

The Tabernacle and Its Furniture. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof. 2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass. 3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he… Read the whole commentary →

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