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New American Standard Bible

Exodus 38:2

And he made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it 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.
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.
Good News Translation
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.
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 Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, square, and three cubits high. 2 And he made its horns on its four corners, its horns being of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.3 He also made all the utensils of the altar, the pails, the shovels, the basins, the meat-forks, and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze. 4 And he made for the altar a grating of bronze netting beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up. 5 He also cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. 6 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 7 Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks. 8 Moreover, he made the basin of bronze with its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

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
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 24:3
and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live;
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her and raped her.
Genesis 46:12
And the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Judges 14:2
So he came back and told his father and mother, "I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; so now, get her for me as a wife."
Judges 16:1
Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and had relations with her.
2 Samuel 11:2
Now at evening time David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanitess. But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, so He put him to death.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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