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- Exodus
- Chapter 30
- Verse 1
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
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Gill's Exposition
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon,.... The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call it incense of spices, properly enough, for it was made of various spices; of which see Exo 30:34 and…
Exo 37:25-28; Exo 40:26-27. The altar of incense was to be a casing of boards of shittim wood Exo 25:5, Exo 25:18 inches square and three feet in height (taking the cubit as 18 inches), entirely…
Adam Clarke
Altar to burn incense - The Samaritan omits the ten first verses of this chapter, because it inserts them after Exo 26:32 (note).
Shittim wood - The same of which the preceding articles were made,…
I. The orders given concerning the altar of incense are, 1. That it was to be made of wood, and covered with gold, pure gold, about a yard high and half a yard square, with horns at the corners, a…
The Altar of incense: its construction and place (vv.1 6), and its use (vv.7 10).
1 6 (cf. Exo 37:25-28; Exo 40:26). The altar of incense was to be of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, a cubit (1½ ft.)…
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