And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
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Gill's Exposition
And thou shall make his pans to receive his ashes,.... Not to receive them in as they fell, but to gather them up in, and carry them away; and this was done every morning about cockcrowing, not much…
(Compare Exo 38:1-7.) The great altar which stood in the court immediately in front of the tabernacle was commonly called the altar of burnt-offering, because on it were burnt the whole…
Adam Clarke
Thou shalt make his pans - סירתיו sirothaiv, a sort or large brazen dishes, which stood under the altar to receive the ashes that fell through the grating.
His shovels - יעיו yaaiv. Some render this…
As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God's…
Cambridge Bible
The vessels of the altar, for use in connexion with the sacrifices.
its pots … and its shovels cf., in the Temple, 1Ki 7:45, 2Ki 25:14.
its ashes lit. its fat, i.e. the fat, which, when a sacrifice…
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