Exodus 27:2
Good News Translation
Make projections at the top of the four corners. They are to form one piece with the altar, and the whole is to be covered with bronze.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

Contemporary English Version
and make each of the four top corners stick up like the horn of a bull. Then cover the whole altar with bronze, including the four horns.

New American Bible
At the four corners make horns that are of one piece with the altar. You shall then plate it with bronze.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

Exodus 29:12 And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof.

Leviticus 4:7,18,25 And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle. . . .

Leviticus 8:15 He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in it, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof.

Leviticus 16:18 And when he is come out to the altar that is before the Lord, let him pray for himself: and taking the blood of the calf, and of the buck goat, let him pour it upon the horns thereof round about.

1 Kings 1:50 And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the horn of the altar.

1 Kings 2:28 And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar.

Psalm 118:27 The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

overlay it was brass

Numbers 16:38,39 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial. . . .

1 Kings 8:64 In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was before the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.

Context
The Bronze Altar
1Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high. 2And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.3And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt make of brass.…
Cross References
Exodus 27:3
And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt make of brass.

Exodus 29:12
And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom thereof.

Numbers 3:31
And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.

1 Kings 1:50
And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the horn of the altar.

2 Kings 16:14
But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar towards the north.

2 Chronicles 4:1
He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.

Psalm 118:27
The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.

Ezekiel 43:15
And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel upward were four horns.

Zechariah 9:15
The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

Exodus 27:1
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