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Chapter 27

The Altar for Burnt Offerings. You shall make an altar(A) of acacia wood, on a square, five cubits long and five cubits wide; it shall be three cubits high. At the four corners make horns[a] that are of one piece with the altar. You shall then plate it with bronze.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:2 Horns: the horn of a ram, goat or ox is a common Old Testament figure for strength and dignity; they represent the divine character of the altar itself or the deity worshiped there.

See, I have singled out[a] Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

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  1. 31:2 Singled out: lit., “called by name”; cf. 35:30.

20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.(A)

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