Exodus 27:8 “Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made…”

Exodus 27:8

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

World English Bible

You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

American Standard Version

Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt make the altar holowe betweene the boardes: as God shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

Darby Translation

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it hath been shewn thee on the mountain, so shall they make [it].

Young's Literal Translation

Hollow with boards thou dost make it, as it hath been shewed thee in the mount, so do they make [it].

Bible in Basic English

The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

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Cross references

“as it was shewed”

Exodus 25:40 Exodus 25:9 Hebrews 8:5 Exodus 26:30–37 1 Chronicles 28:11 1 Chronicles 28:19

Exodus 25:40 · BSB

See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

Exodus 25:9 · BSB

You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.

Hebrews 8:5 · BSB

The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the…

Exodus 26:30–37 · BSB

So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

1 Chronicles 28:11 · BSB

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

1 Chronicles 28:19 · BSB

“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

9You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

Read Exodus 27