Exodus 27:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and it shall be three cubits high.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND MAKE the altar of acacia wood, five cubits square and three cubits high [within reach of all].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

Common English Bible

¹ Make an acacia-wood altar. The altar should be square, seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide. It should be four and a half feet high.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ "You shall also make an altar of setim wood, which will have five cubits in length, and the same in width, that is, four equal sides, and three cubits in height.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long and as many broad: that is, four square, and three cubits high.

Exodus 27:1 Cross References

2 Samuel 24:18

That day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Kings 16:14

The bronze altar that was before the Lord he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.

1 Chronicles 6:49

But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, doing all the work of the most holy place, to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

2 Chronicles 4:1

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

Ezra 3:2

Then Jeshua son of Jozadak with his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel with his kin set out to build the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as prescribed in the law of Moses the man of God.

Exodus 17:15

And Moses built an altar and called it, The Lord is my banner.

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and set up twelve pillars, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 31:9

and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand,

Exodus 35:16

the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin with its stand;

Exodus 39:39

the bronze altar and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;

Exodus 40:10

You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils and consecrate the altar, so that the altar shall be most holy.

Exodus 40:29

He set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:6

You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting

Numbers 3:31

Their responsibility was the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen—all the service pertaining to these.

Numbers 4:13

They shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it,

Numbers 4:14

and they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the firepans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar, and they shall spread on it a covering of fine leather and put its poles in place.

Hebrews 13:10

We have an altar from which those who officiate in the tent have no right to eat.