Exodus 27 · Verse 8

Exodus 27:8

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
Exodus 27:8, King James Version

Exodus 27:8 in other translations

BSBConstruct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
WEBYou shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
ASVHollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
YLTHollow with boards thou dost make it, as it hath been shewed thee in the mount, so do they make it.
DARBYHollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it hath been shewn thee on the mountain, so shall they make it.
BBEThe altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
WebsterHollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shown thee on the mount, so shall they make it.

What does Exodus 27:8 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 Hollow with boards - It seems to have been a kind of frame-work, and to have had nothing solid in the inside, and only covered with the grating at the top. This rendered it more light and portable.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Exodus 27:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נְב֥וּבne.Vuvhollow ofH5014
לֻחֹ֖תlu.ChotboardsH3871
תַּעֲשֶׂ֣הta.'a.Sehyou will makeH6213
אֹת֑וֹ'o.To<obj.> itH853
כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רka.'a.Sherjust asH834
הֶרְאָ֥הher.'Ahhe showedH7200
אֹתְךָ֛'o.te.Kha<obj.> youH853
בָּהָ֖רba.Haron the mountainH2022
כֵּ֥ןkensoH3651
יַעֲשֽׂוּ\׃\ \סya.'a.Suthey will doH6213

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Cross references for Exodus 27:8

  • Exodus 25:40

    And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

  • Exodus 25:9

    According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

  • Hebrews 8:5

    Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

  • 1 Chronicles 28:11

    Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

  • Matthew 15:9

    But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

  • 1 Chronicles 28:19

    All this, said David, the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.

  • Exodus 26:30-37

    And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount. And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. …

  • Colossians 2:20-23

    Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
as it was shewed. Heb. he shewed.
25:9,40; 26:30-37; 1Ch 28:11,19; Mt 15:9; Col 2:20-23; Heb 8:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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 27:8

    Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

  • Exodus 27:9

    And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

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Exodus 27:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
De tablas lo harás, hueco: de la manera que te fué mostrado en el monte, así lo harás.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu le feras creux, avec des planches, comme il t’a été montré sur la montagne; on le fera ainsi.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Hohl, von Brettern sollst du ihn machen; so wie dir auf dem Berge gezeigt worden ist, also soll man ihn machen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Non solidum, sed inane et cavum intrinsecus facies illud, sicut tibi in monte monstratum est.