Exodus 27:3
in Exodus 27Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
KJV
And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
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This verse in Exodus 27
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThou shalt make his pans - סירתיו sirothaiv, a sort or large brazen dishes, which stood under the altar to receive the ashes that fell through the grating. His shovels - יעיו yaaiv. Some render this besoms; but as these were brazen instruments, it is more natural to suppose that some kind of fire-shovels are intended, or scuttles, which were used to carry off the ashes that fell through the grating into the large pan or siroth.
This site's exposition
make his pans to receive his ashes
on Exodus 27:3-5
The list of vessels opens with the pans for the ashes, so the first tool named is the one for clearing away what the fire has already consumed. Leviticus 6:10 and 6:11 make that a daily priestly duty, done in linen garments and finished by carrying the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. Every item here is brass, including the grate that holds the fire, and no gold comes near this altar.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), which were all of brass. The grate, which was let into the hollow of the altar, about the middle of it, in which the fire was kept, and the sacrifice burnt; it was made of network like a sieve, and hung hollow, that the fire might burn the better, and that the ashes might fall through into the hollow of the altar,
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The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ | veasita | and you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| סִּֽירֹתָיו֙ | sirotav | pots its | H5518 → | 34 times |
| לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹ | ledasheno | to take away ashes its | H1878 → | |
| וְיָעָיו֙ | veyaav | and shovels its | H3257 → | |
| וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יו | umizrekotav | and bowls its | H4219 → | |
| וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יו | umizlegotav | and forks its | H4207 → | |
| וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יו | umachtotav | and fire-pans its | H4289 → | 22 times |
| לְכָל־ | lekhol | to all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| כֵּלָ֖יו | kelav | articles its | H3627 → | 325 times |
| תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה | taaseh | you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ | nechoshet | bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
וְעָשִׂ֤יתָand you will make
veasitaH6213 →2628 times
סִּֽירֹתָיו֙pots its
sirotavH5518 →34 times
לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹto take away ashes its
ledashenoH1878 →
וְיָעָיו֙and shovels its
veyaavH3257 →
וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יוand bowls its
umizrekotavH4219 →
וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יוand forks its
umizlegotavH4207 →
וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יוand fire-pans its
umachtotavH4289 →22 times
לְכָל־to all
lekholH3605 →5413 times
כֵּלָ֖יוarticles its
kelavH3627 →325 times
תַּעֲשֶׂ֥הyou will make
taasehH6213 →2628 times
נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃bronze
nechoshetH5178 →140 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 7:45and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
it leads to
- Exodus 38:3
He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.
- 2 Chronicles 4:16
and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.
- Leviticus 8:31
And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings,…
- Zechariah 14:21
Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there…
- Ezekiel 46:20–24
and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring…
- Exodus 38:3
Through
Exodus 38:3He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:13
or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
- 1 Samuel 2:13
Through
1 Chronicles 28:17the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:13–14
or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
- 1 Samuel 2:13–14
Through
2 Chronicles 4:11Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:
it leads to
- 1 Kings 7:14
He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind…
- 1 Kings 7:14
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.