Exodus 27:1

CHAPTER XXVII

The altar of burnt-offerings, and its dimensions, 1;

its horns, 2;

pans, shovels, c., 3

its grate and net work, 4, 5;

its staves, 6, 7.

Court of the tabernacle, with its pillars and hangings, 9-15.

Gate of the court, its pillars, hangings, length, breadth, and

height, 16-18.

All the vessels used in the court of the tabernacle to be of

brass, 19.

The Israelites to provide pure olive oil for the light, 20.

Every thing to be ordered by Aaron and his sons, 21.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXVII

Verse Exodus 27:1. Thou shalt make an altar] מזבח mizbeach, from זבח zabach, to slay: Septuagint, θυσιαστηριον, from θυσιαζω, to sacrifice or from θυω to kill, c. Genesis 8:20.

Four square] As this altar was five cubits long and five broad, and the cubit is reckoned to be twenty-one inches, hence it must have been eight feet nine inches square, and about five feet three inches in height, the amount of three cubits, taken at the same ratio.