ALTAR

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• Genesis 8:2

  The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

• Genesis 12:7

  Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 12:8

  He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

• Genesis 13:18

  Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

• Genesis 22:9

  They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

• Genesis 26:25

  He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.

• Genesis 33:20

  He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

• Genesis 35:1

  God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

• Genesis 35:2

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Genesis 35:3

  Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

• Genesis 35:4

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• Genesis 35:5

  They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

• Genesis 35:6

  So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

• Genesis 35:7

  He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

• Exodus 17:15

  Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.

• Exodus 20:24

  You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

• Exodus 20:25

  If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

• Exodus 20:26

  You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’

• Exodus 21:14

  If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

• Exodus 24:4

  Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Exodus 27:1

  “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square: and its height shall be three cubits.

• Exodus 27:2

  You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.

• Exodus 27:3

  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.

• Exodus 27:4

  You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.

• Exodus 27:5

  You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

• Exodus 27:6

  You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

• Exodus 27:7

  Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it.

• Exodus 27:8

  You shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

• Exodus 29:36

  Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

• Exodus 29:37

  Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

• Exodus 29:44

  I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

• Exodus 30:1

  “You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

• Exodus 30:2

  Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 30:3

  You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

• Exodus 30:4

  You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

• Exodus 30:5

  You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

• Exodus 30:6

  You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

• Exodus 30:7

  Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

• Exodus 30:8

  When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

• Exodus 30:9

  You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

• Exodus 30:10

  Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”

• Exodus 30:26

  You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,

• Exodus 30:27

  the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

• Exodus 30:28

  the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

• Exodus 30:29

  You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

• Exodus 37:1

  Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:25

  He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.

• Exodus 37:26

  He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.

• Exodus 37:27

  He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.

• Exodus 37:28

  He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

• Exodus 38:1

  He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.

• Exodus 38:2

  He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.

• Exodus 38:3

  He 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.

• Exodus 38:4

  He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.

• Exodus 38:5

  He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.

• Exodus 38:6

  He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.

• Exodus 38:7

  He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

• Exodus 39:38

  the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,

• Exodus 39:39

  the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,

• Exodus 40:5

  You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

• Exodus 40:6

  “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

• Exodus 40:10

  You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.

• Exodus 40:26

  He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

• Exodus 40:27

  and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Exodus 40:29

  He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 4:7

  The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 4:18

  He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 8:10

  Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

• Leviticus 8:11

  He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

• Leviticus 8:15

  He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

• Leviticus 9:9

  The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:

• Leviticus 16:12

  He 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:

• Leviticus 16:18

  “He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull’s blood, and some of the goat’s blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.

• Numbers 3:27

  Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

• Numbers 3:28

  According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

• Numbers 3:29

  The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

• Numbers 3:30

  The prince of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

• Numbers 3:31

  Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

• Numbers 4:4

  “This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things.

• Numbers 4:5

  When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

• Numbers 4:6

  and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

• Numbers 4:7

  “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.

• Numbers 4:8

  They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

• Numbers 4:9

  “They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lamp stand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.

• Numbers 4:10

  They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

• Numbers 4:11

  “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

• Numbers 4:12

  “They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

• Numbers 4:13

  “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.

• Numbers 4:14

  They 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.

• Numbers 4:15

  “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

• Numbers 16:36

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 16:37

  “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,

• Numbers 16:38

  even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

• Numbers 16:39

  Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

• Numbers 16:40

  to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.

• Numbers 23:1

  Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

• Numbers 23:14

  He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

• Numbers 23:29

  Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

• Deuteronomy 27:4

  It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.

• Deuteronomy 27:5

  There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.

• Deuteronomy 27:6

  You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 27:7

  You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.

• Joshua 8:30

  Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

• Joshua 8:31

  as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.

• Joshua 8:32

  He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 22:10

  When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

• Joshua 22:34

  The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”

• Judges 6:25

  That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.

• Judges 6:26

  Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

• Judges 6:27

  Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

• 1 Samuel 2:13

  The 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;

• 1 Samuel 2:14

  and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

• 1 Samuel 7:17

  His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

• 1 Samuel 14:35

  Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 24:18

  Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

• 2 Samuel 24:19

  David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

• 1 Kings 1:50

  Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.

• 1 Kings 2:28

  This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

• 1 Kings 6:19

  He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.

• 1 Kings 6:20

  Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.

• 1 Kings 7:48

  Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;

• 1 Kings 8:64

  The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

• 1 Kings 12:32

  Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

• 1 Kings 16:32

  He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

• 1 Kings 18:26

  They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

• 1 Kings 18:31

  Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

• 1 Kings 18:32

  With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

• 2 Kings 16:10

  King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.

• 2 Kings 16:14

  The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and Yahweh’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.

• 2 Kings 16:15

  King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering, his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”

• 2 Kings 16:16

  Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

• 2 Kings 16:17

  King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

• 2 Kings 23:12

  The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 25:14

  They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

• 1 Chronicles 28:18

  and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.

• 2 Chronicles 4:1

  Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

• 2 Chronicles 15:8

  When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.

• 2 Chronicles 29:18

  Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, “We have cleansed all Yahweh’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels.

• 2 Chronicles 29:19

  Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign threw away when he was unfaithful, have we prepared and sanctified. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”

• 2 Chronicles 29:20

  Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 29:21

  They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on Yahweh’s altar.

• 2 Chronicles 29:22

  So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

• 2 Chronicles 29:23

  They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them.

• 2 Chronicles 29:24

  Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 33:16

  He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Ezra 3:1

  When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

• Ezra 3:2

  Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

• Ezra 3:3

  In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

• Ezra 3:4

  They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

• Ezra 3:5

  and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to Yahweh.

• Ezra 3:6

  From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.

• Psalms 43:4

  Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

• Psalms 118:27

  Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

• Isaiah 27:9

  Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

• Isaiah 65:3

  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

• Ezekiel 8:16

  He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

• Ezekiel 43:13

  These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

• Ezekiel 43:14

  From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit.

• Ezekiel 43:15

  The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

• Ezekiel 43:16

  The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

• Ezekiel 43:17

  The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.

• Ezekiel 43:18

  He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.

• Ezekiel 43:19

  You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.

• Ezekiel 43:20

  You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

• Ezekiel 43:21

  You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

• Ezekiel 43:22

  On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

• Ezekiel 43:23

  When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.

• Ezekiel 43:24

  You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 43:25

  Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect.

• Ezekiel 43:26

  Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

• Ezekiel 43:27

  When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Hosea 8:11

  Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

• Malachi 2:13

  This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

• Matthew 23:18

  ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

• Matthew 23:19

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Matthew 23:35

  that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

• Acts 17:23

  For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

• Revelation 8:3

  Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

• Revelation 9:13

  The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,