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You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
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Purposeful Tools for Worship
Commentators explain that each bronze tool for the altar had a specific, practical purpose. There were pots and shovels for ash removal, basins for the victim's blood, flesh-hooks to arrange the sacrifice on the fire, and firepans to carry coals. This highlights the orderly and detailed nature of the worship God commanded, where even the cleanup was sacred.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
(Compare to Exodus 38:1-7.) The great altar that stood in the court immediately in front of the tabernacle was commonly called the altar of burnt o…
19th Century
Anglican
His pans to receive his ashes. —Scuttles, in which the ashes were placed for removal from the sanctuary, are intended. The word tr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall make his pans to receive his ashes Not to receive them in as they fell, but to gather them up in, and …
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In the court before the tabernacle, where the people attended, was an altar, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which their priests …
