Exodus 27:8

Exodus 27:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
• New International Version (NIV)Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You shall make it hollow, with boards. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You shall make it hollow with boards; as it was shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.

Context of Exodus 27:8

6Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. 7The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried. Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain. 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, 10with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.

Exodus 27:8 word by word

נְב֥וּב לֻחֹ֖ת תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹת֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר הֶרְאָ֥ה אֹתְךָ֛ בָּהָ֖ר כֵּ֥ן יַעֲשֽׂוּ׃ סRead the interlinear

• Constructעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• the altarאֵת'êth · [Obj.]H853
• with boardsלוּחַlûach lûach · tabletH3871
• so that it is hollowנָבַבnâbab · be hollowH5014
• just asכַּאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · as whichH834
• you were shownרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• on the mountainהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• on the mountainכֵּןkên · soH3651

Cross-references for Exodus 27:8

• Exodus 25:9You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.
• Exodus 26:30So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
• 1 Chronicles 28:11Then 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.
• Matthew 15:9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
• Colossians 2:20If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
• Hebrews 8:5The 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 mountain.”

Commentaries on Exodus 27:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Hollow with boards - It seems to have been a kind of frame-work, and to have had nothing solid in the inside, and only covered with the grating at the top. This rendered it more light and portable.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-8Verses 1-8 (Compare Exodus 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 burnt-offerings, and all those parts of the other animal sacrifices which were offered to the Lord. It was also called the brazen altar, because it was covered with bronze, in distinction from the golden altar or altar of incense Exodus 39:38-39; Exodus…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-8The square altar for burnt offerings, like the tabernacle frames, was made of acacia wood covered with metal. Yet, to match the other features outside the sanctuary, they covered it with bronze (27:2–3; see 27:10, 17, 19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211-2. altar of shittim wood--The dimensions of this altar which was placed at the entrance of the sanctuary were nearly three yards square, and a yard and a half in height. Under the wooden frame of this chest-like altar the inside was hollow, and each corner was to be terminated by "horns"--angular projections, perpendicular or oblique, in the form of horns. The animals to be sacrificed were bound to these (Psa 118:27), and part of the blood was applied…Read the comment

Topics related to Exodus 27:8

• Altar
• Tabernacle

In the dictionaries

• Altar
• Hollow
• Board
• Color; Colors
• Exodus, the Book of
• Four
• Genesis
• Grate; Grating
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus

Commentaries on Exodus 27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings