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Good News Translation

Exodus 38:2

He made the projections at the top of the four corners, so that they formed one piece with the altar. He covered it all with bronze.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Altar;   Bezalel;   Tabernacle;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Altar of Burnt-Offering, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Urijah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Horns;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Goshen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Altar;   Horn;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Brass;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
King James Version
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
Lexham English Bible
And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with bronze.
New Century Version
He made each corner stick out like a horn so that the horns and the altar were joined together in one piece. Then he covered the altar with bronze.
New English Translation
He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
Amplified Bible
And he made its horns (horn-shaped projections) on the four corners of it; the horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
New American Standard Bible
And he made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee made vnto it hornes in the foure corners thereof: the hornes thereof were of the same, and he ouerlayd it with brasse.
Legacy Standard Bible
He made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
Contemporary English Version
with each of its four corners sticking up like the horn of a bull, and it was completely covered with bronze.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made horns for it on its four corners, the horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
Darby Translation
And he made its horns on the four corners thereof; its horns were of itself; and he overlaid it with copper.
Easy-to-Read Version
He made a horn for each of the four corners of the altar. He joined each horn to its corner so that everything was one piece. He covered the altar with bronze.
English Standard Version
He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
George Lamsa Translation
And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same; and he overlaid it with brass.
Christian Standard Bible®
He made horns for it on its four corners; the horns were of one piece with it. Then he overlaid it with bronze.
Literal Translation
And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were of it. And he overlaid it with bronze.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And made foure hornes, which proceaded out of the foure corners therof, and ouerlaied it with brasse.
American Standard Version
And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with brass.
Bible in Basic English
And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made vnto it hornes in the foure corners of it, proceedyng out of it: and he ouerlayde it with brasse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with brass.
King James Version (1611)
And hee made the hornes thereof on the foure corners of it: the hornes thereof were of the same, and he ouerlayed it with brasse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and overlaid it with pure gold within and without;
English Revised Version
And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with brass.
Berean Standard Bible
He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whose hornes camen forth of the corneris, and he hilide it with platis of bras.
Young's Literal Translation
and he maketh its horns on its four corners; its horns have been of the same; and he overlayeth it with brass;
Update Bible Version
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with bronze.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
World English Bible
He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
New King James Version
He made its horns on its four corners; the horns were of one piece with it. And he overlaid it with bronze.
New Living Translation
He made horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar were all one piece. He overlaid the altar with bronze.
New Life Bible
He made horns on its four corners of one piece with it and covered it with brass.
New Revised Standard
He made horns for it on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he made the horns thereof, upon the four corners thereof, of the same, were the horns thereof, - and he overlaid it with bronze.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.
Revised Standard Version
He made horns for it on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

Contextual Overview

1 For burning offerings, he made an altar out of acacia wood. It was square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and it was 4½ feet high. 2 He made the projections at the top of the four corners, so that they formed one piece with the altar. He covered it all with bronze. 3 He also made all the equipment for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the hooks, and the fire pans. All this equipment was made of bronze. 4 He made a bronze grating and put it under the rim of the altar, so that it reached halfway up the altar. 5 He made four carrying rings and put them on the four corners. 6 He made carrying poles of acacia wood, covered them with bronze, 7 and put them in the rings on each side of the altar. The altar was made of boards and was hollow. 8 He made the bronze basin and its bronze base out of the mirrors belonging to the women who served at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord 's presence.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he made: Exodus 27:2

brass: Job 6:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:12 - the horns 1 Kings 1:50 - caught Psalms 118:27 - the horns Ezekiel 43:16 - square

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.
Genesis 6:2
some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.
Genesis 6:4
In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.
Genesis 24:3
I want you to make a vow in the name of the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the people here in Canaan.
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.
Genesis 46:12
Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.
Judges 14:2
He went back home and told his father and mother, "There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her."
Judges 16:1
One day Samson went to the Philistine city of Gaza, where he met a prostitute and went to bed with her.
2 Samuel 11:2
One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful.
1 Chronicles 2:3
Judah had five sons in all. By his wife Bathshua, a Canaanite, he had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. His oldest son, Er, was so evil that the Lord killed him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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