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You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four brazen rings in its four corners.
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The Grate's Practical Purpose
Commentators explain that the bronze grate was a practical, sieve-like structure. Its primary function was likely to hold the burning sacrifice while allowing the ashes to fall through into the hollow altar. This design kept the sacrificial fire efficient and clean, demonstrating God's concern for order even in the details of worship.
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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
A grate of network. —Rather, a grating of network. The position of the grating is doubtful. According to one view, it rea…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall make for it a grate of network of brass Or "sieve", as in (Amos 9:9), it was a plate of br…
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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 …