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The Bronze Altar

Exodus 27:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
KJV
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.it was…: Heb. he shewed
WEB
You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
ASV
Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
LSV
You make it hollow [with] boards; as it has been showed [to] you on the mountain, so do they make [it].
YLT
Hollow with boards thou dost make it, as it hath been shewed thee in the mount, so do they make [it].
DBY
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it hath been shewn thee on the mountain, so shall they make [it].
DRC
Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.
GNV
Thou shalt make the altar holowe betweene the boardes: as God shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
JPS
Hollow with planks shalt thou make it; as it hath been shown thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
LXXE
Thou shalt make it hollow with boards: according to what was shewed thee in the mount, so thou shalt make it.

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Original-language editions

WLC
נְב֥וּב לֻחֹ֖ת תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹת֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר הֶרְאָ֥ה אֹתְךָ֛ בָּהָ֖ר כֵּ֥ן יַעֲשֽׂוּ׃
LXX-Br
Κοῖλον συνιδωτὸν ποιήσεις αὐτό· κατὰ τὸ παραδειχθέν σοι ἐν τῷ ὄρει, οὕτω ποιήσεις αὐτό.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 25:40See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
  • Exodus 25:9You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.
  • Hebrews 8:5The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on…
  • Matthew 15:9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
  • 1 Chronicles 28:19“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”
  • 1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
  • Colossians 2:20–23If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”? These will all perish…
  • Exodus 26:30–37So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain. Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it. Hang it with gold…

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