New English Translation
Exodus 27:4
4You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners.
Exodus 27:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
- New International Version (NIV)Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall make a grate for it, a network of bronze; and on the network you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
Context of Exodus 27:4
2You are to make its four horns on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, and you are to overlay it with bronze. 3You are to make its pots for the ashes, its shovels, its tossing bowls, its meat hooks, and its fire pans – you are to make all its utensils of bronze. You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners. 5You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come halfway up the altar. 6You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.
Read all of Exodus 27Exodus 27:4 word by word
וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ לּוֹ֙ מִכְבָּ֔ר מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה רֶ֣שֶׁת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וְעָשִׂ֣יתָ עַל־הָרֶ֗שֶׁת אַרְבַּע֙ טַבְּעֹ֣ת נְחֹ֔שֶׁת עַ֖ל אַרְבַּ֥ע קְצוֹתָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And thou shalt makeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
- for it a grateמִכְבָּרmakbêr · grateH4345
- of networkמַעֲשֶׂהma‛ăώeh · deed: workH4639
- brassנְחֹ֫שֶׁתnechôsheth · bronzeH5178
- and upon the netרֶ֫שֶׁתresheth · netH7568
- fourאַרְבַּע'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh · fourH702
- ringsטַבַּ֫עַתţabba‛ath · ringH2885
- cornersקָצָהqâtsâh · endH7098
Cross-references for Exodus 27:4
- Exodus 35:16the altar for the burnt offering with its bronze grating that is on it, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin and its pedestal;
- Exodus 38:4He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
- Exodus 25:12You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.
Commentaries on Exodus 27:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Thou shalt make for it a grate - Calmet supposes this altar to have been a sort of box, covered with brass plates, on the top of which was a grating to supply the fire with air, and permit the ashes to fall through into the siroth or pan that was placed below. At the four corners of the grating were four rings and four chains, by which it was attached to the four horns; and at the sides were rings for the poles of shittim wood with which it was carried…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. 44. a grate of network of brass--sunk latticework to support the fire. four brazen rings--by which the grating might be lifted and taken away as occasion required from the body of the altar.Read the comment
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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
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