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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Exodus 27"
description: "CHAPTER 27   :-. ALTAR FOR
BURNT OFFERING. 1, 2. altar of shittim wood—The
dimensions of this altar which was placed at the entrance of the
sanctuary were"
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---

CHAPTER 27

. ALTAR FOR
BURNT OFFERING.

**1, 2. altar of shittim wood**—The
dimensions of this altar which was placed at the entrance of the
sanctuary were nearly three yards square, and a yard and a half in
height. Under the wooden frame of this chest-like altar the inside
was hollow, and each corner was to be terminated by "horns"—angular
projections, perpendicular or oblique, in the form of horns. The
animals to be sacrificed were bound to these (), and part of the blood was applied to them.

**3. shovels**—fire shovels for
scraping together any of the scattered ashes.
**basons**—for receiving
the blood of the sacrifice to be sprinkled on the people.
**fleshhooks**—curved,
three-pronged forks ([1 Samuel 2:13](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/13);
[1 Samuel 2:14](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/14)).
**fire-pans**—A large sort
of vessel, wherein the sacred fire which came down from heaven ([1 Samuel 2:14](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/14)) was kept burning, while they cleaned the altar and the
grate from the coals and ashes, and while the altar was carried from
one place to another in the wilderness [PATRICK,
SPENCER, LE
CLERC].

**4. a grate of network of brass**—sunk
latticework to support the fire.
**four brazen rings**—by
which the grating might be lifted and taken away as occasion required
from the body of the altar.

**5. put it under the compass of the
altar beneath**—that is, the grating in which they were carried
to a clean place ([Leviticus 4:12](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/12)).

**6, 7. staves . . . rings**—Those
rings were placed at the side through which the poles were inserted
on occasions of removal.

**9-19. the court of the
tabernacle**—The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a
rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length
and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about
three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet
consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined
linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that the people could
see through; but that large curtain which overhung the entrance was
of a different texture, being embroidered and dyed with variegated
colors, and it was furnished with cords for pulling it up or drawing
it aside when the priests had occasion to enter. The curtains of this
enclosure were supported on sixty brazen pillars which stood on
pedestals of the same metal, but their capitals and fillets were of
silver, and the hooks on which they were suspended were of silver
also.

**19. pins**—were designed to hold
down the curtains at the bottom, lest the wind should waft them
aside.

**20, 21. pure oil olive beaten**—that
is, such as runs from the olives when bruised and without the
application of fire.
**for the light . . . Aaron and
his sons**—were to take charge of lighting it in all time coming.

**21. shall order it from evening to
morning**—The tabernacle having no windows, the lamps required to
be lighted during the day. JOSEPHUS
says that in his time only three were lighted; but his were
degenerate times, and there is no Scripture authority for this
limitation. But although the priests were obliged from necessity to
light them by day, they might have let them go out at night had it
not been for this express ordinance.

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