“And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.”
They built the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, three cubits high; it was square, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar of burnt offering — the first object encountered in the courtyard, the primary site of sacrifice — is built exactly as Exodus 27:1 specified. The altar where Israel's daily sacrifices, Passover lambs, and atonement offerings will be presented for the next forty years is built from the same desert wood as the tabernacle's frames. Hebrews 13:10 says we have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat — the altar of Exodus 38 is the type of the altar of Christ's sacrifice.
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