Exodus 27:8

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

Majority Standard Bible

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

7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

9You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

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Cross References

Exodus 25:9You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.

Exodus 26:30So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

1 Chronicles 28:19“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”

Colossians 2:20If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

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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