Exodus 38:1

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Exodus 38:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

2 He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.

3 He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

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Exodus 27:1

“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

Exodus 27:2

Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

Exodus 27:3

Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

Exodus 27:4

Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

Exodus 27:5

Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.

Exodus 27:6

Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

Exodus 27:7

The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

Exodus 27:8

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 40:6

Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 40:29

He placed the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD had commanded him.

2 Chronicles 4:1

He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Ezekiel 43:13

These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:

Ezekiel 43:14

The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

Ezekiel 43:15

The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.

Ezekiel 43:16

The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

Ezekiel 43:17

The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

Romans 8:3

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 8:4

so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 12:1

Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

Hebrews 13:10

We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

1 Peter 2:5

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

John 6:37

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Revelation 21:16

The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.