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Selected Verse: Exodus 38:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ex 38:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And he made [06213] the altar [04196] of burnt offering [05930] of shittim [07848] wood [06086]: five [02568] cubits [0520] was the length [0753] thereof, and five [02568] cubits [0520] the breadth [07341] thereof; it was foursquare [07251]; and three [07969] cubits [0520] the height [06967] thereof. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
FURNITURE OF THE TABERNACLE. (Exo. 38:1-31)
the altar of burnt offering--The repetitions are continued, in which may be traced the exact conformity of the execution to the order. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
shittim
That is, acacia. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The altar of burnt - offering - On this all their sacrifices were offered. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment. We must have an eye to him in offering them, as God hath in accepting them. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The altar of burnt-offering - See Clarke's note on Exo 27:1; and for its horns, pots, shovels, basins, etc., see the meaning of the Hebrew terms explained, Exo 27:3-5 (note). |
3 And thou shalt make [06213] his pans [05518] to receive his ashes [01878], and his shovels [03257], and his basons [04219], and his fleshhooks [04207], and his firepans [04289]: all the vessels [03627] thereof thou shalt make [06213] of brass [05178].
4 And thou shalt make [06213] for it a grate [04345] of network [04639] of brass [05178]; and upon the net [07568] shalt thou make [06213] four [0702] brasen [05178] rings [02885] in the four [0702] corners [07098] thereof.
5 And thou shalt put [05414] it under the compass [03749] of the altar [04196] beneath [04295], that the net [07568] may be even to [05704] the midst [02677] of the altar [04196].
1 And thou shalt make [06213] an altar [04196] of shittim [07848] wood [06086], five [02568] cubits [0520] long [0753], and five [02568] cubits [0520] broad [07341]; the altar [04196] shall be foursquare [07251]: and the height [06967] thereof shall be three [07969] cubits [0520].