Exodus 27:6
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
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And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood,.... Like those that were made for the ark, and for the same purpose:
and overlay them with brass; with plates of brass, whereas…
(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…
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…