Exodus 27:6
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
Exodus 27:6 in other translations
| BSB | Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. |
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| WEB | You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. |
| ASV | And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass. |
| YLT | ‘And thou hast made staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with brass. |
| DARBY | And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with copper. |
| BBE | And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. |
| Webster | And thou shalt make staffs for the altar, staffs of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. |
What does Exodus 27:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 27:6-7
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 27:1-8
In the court before the tabernacle, where the people attended, was an altar, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which their priests must offer them to God. It was of wood overlaid with brass. A grate of brass was let into the hollow of the altar, about the middle of which the fire was kept, and the sacrifice burnt. It was made of net-work like a sieve, and hung hollow, that the ashes might fall…
Exodus 27:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 27:6
- Numbers 4:44
Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
- Exodus 35:13-15
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread, The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light, And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
- Exodus 30:4
And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
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Context
- Exodus 27:5
And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
- Exodus 27:6
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
- Exodus 27:7
And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Exodus 27:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Harás también varas para el altar, varas de madera de Sittim, las cuales cubrirás de metal. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et tu feras des barres pour l’autel, des barres de bois de sittim, et tu les plaqueras d’airain. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und mache Stangen für den Altar, Stangen von Akazienholz, und überziehe sie mit Erz. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Facies et vectes altaris de lignis setim duos, quos operies laminis æneis: |