2 Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.

Other Translations of Exodus 27:2

King James Version

2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

English Standard Version

2 And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

The Message

2 Make horns at each of the four corners. The horns are to be of one piece with the Altar and covered with a veneer of bronze.

New King James Version

2 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze.

New Living Translation

2 Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 27:2

Commentary on Exodus 27:1-8

(Read Exodus 27:1-8)

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 must offer them to God. It was of wood overlaid with brass. A grate of brass was let into the hollow of the altar, about the middle of which the fire was kept, and the sacrifice burnt. It was made of net-work like a sieve, and hung hollow, that the ashes might fall through. This brazen altar was a type of Christ dying to make atonement for our sins. The wood had been consumed by the fire from heaven, if it had not been secured by the brass: nor could the human nature of Christ have borne the wrath of God, if it had not been supported by Divine power.