Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
- KJV And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
- BSB Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
- NASB And you shall make its pails for removing its ashes, and its shovels, its basins, its forks, and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
- NLT Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.
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Quick answer
All the altar's utensils — pots, shovels, basins, hooks, and fire pans — were to be made of bronze. These tools served the daily work of sacrifice.
Overview
A full set of bronze implements equipped the altar for removing ashes and handling the offerings. The bronze throughout marked the altar's service in the outer court. The careful provision for the ministry of sacrifice underscores that atonement was God's ordered, ongoing means of dealing with sin until its fulfillment in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Kgs 7:45the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished brass.
- Exod 24:6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
- 2 Chr 4:16Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright brass.
- 1 Kgs 7:40Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:
- 1 Sam 2:13–14The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
- Num 4:14They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
- 1 Chr 28:17and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
- 2 Chr 4:11Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house:
- Lev 16:12He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
- Exod 38:3He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.
- 2 Kgs 25:15The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
- Jer 52:18–20They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
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