Exodus 20:24-26
20:24 ‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.
20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.
20:26 And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’
Exodus 24:4
24:4 and Moses wrote down all the words of the
Lord. Early in the morning he built
an altar at the foot
of the mountain and arranged
twelve standing stones
– according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 38:1-7
The Making of the Altar for the Burnt Offering
38:1 He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide – it was square – and its height was four feet six inches.
38:2 He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
38:3 He made all the utensils of the altar – the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans – he made all its utensils of bronze.
38:4 He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
38:5 He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles.
38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
38:7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.
Exodus 40:10
40:10 Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with
all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar.
Exodus 40:29
40:29 He also put the altar for the burnt offering by the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:2
40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up
the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
Exodus 24:18
24:18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up
the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 24:2
24:2 Moses alone may come
near the
Lord, but the others
must not come near,
nor may the people go up with him.”
Exodus 4:1
The Source of Sufficiency
4:1 Moses answered again, “And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you’?”
Ezekiel 43:13-17
The Altar
43:13 “And these are the measurements of the altar: Its base is 1¾ feet high, and 1¾ feet wide, and its border nine inches on its edge. This is to be the height of the altar.
43:14 From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet, and the width 1¾ feet; and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet, and the width 1¾ feet;
43:15 and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.
43:16 Now the altar hearth is a perfect square, 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.
43:17 The ledge is 24½ feet long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. Its steps face east.”
Hebrews 13:10
13:10 We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.