Exo 38:1-2 | TSK | STEP | The altar of burnt offering. The laver of brass. The court, and its hangings. The sum of what the people offered, and the use to which it was applied. the altar.This altar consisted of four boards of {shittim} (acacia) wood, covered with brass, and hollow in the middle; but it is supposed to have been filled up with earth when used, for it is expressly said (ch. 20:24) that the altar is to be of earth. As it was five cubits long and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, if the cubit be reckoned at 21 inches, it must have been eight feet nine inches square, and about five feet three inches in height. foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

Exodus 38:1-2

1 The altar of burnt offering.

8 The laver of brass.

9 The court, and its hangings.

21 The sum of what the people offered, and the use to which it was applied.

the altar.This altar consisted of four boards of {shittim} (acacia) wood, covered with brass, and hollow in the middle; but it is supposed to have been filled up with earth when used, for it is expressly said (ch. 20:24) that the altar is to be of earth. As it was five cubits long and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, if the cubit be reckoned at 21 inches, it must have been eight feet nine inches square, and about five feet three inches in height.

27:1-8; 40:6,29; 2Ch 4:1; Eze 43:13-17; Ro 8:3,4; 12:1; Heb 3:1

Heb 9:14; 13:10; 1Pe 2:5

foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

Eze 43:16; Joh 6:37; Heb 13:8; Re 21:16

he made.

27:2

brass.

Job 6:12