Exodus 27:3

Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God instructs Moses on the construction of the bronze altar, specifying the exact materials and functions of the tools required for its operation.

The words — עָשִׂ֤יתָ (a.Si.ta) translates literally as "you will make," while לְ/דַשְּׁנ֔וֹ (le./da.she.N/o) means "to take away ashes," establishing the altar's maintenance protocol.

The thread — The command is restated as fulfilled in Exodus 38:3, recalled in 1 Kings 7:45 during Solomon’s temple construction, and functionally paralleled in Exodus 24:6 where similar vessels hold sacrificial blood.

Why it lands — The text requires exact compliance with divine specifications, ensuring that sacred instruments are durable, purpose-built, and separated from common use.

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The Hebrew words

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָve./'a.Si.taand/ you will make סִּֽירֹתָיו֙si.ro.Ta/vpots/ its לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹle./da.she.N/oto/ take away ashes/ its וְיָעָיו֙ve./ya.'A/vand/ shovels/ its וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יוu./miz.re.ko.Ta/vand/ bowls/ its וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יוu./miz.le.go.Ta/vand/ forks/ its וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יוu./mach.to.Ta/vand/ fire-pans/ its לְכָל־le./kholto/ all כֵּלָ֖יוke.La/varticles/ its תַּעֲשֶׂ֥הta.'a.Sehyou will make נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ne.Cho.shetbronze

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

1 Kings 7:45 and 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.
Exodus 24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar.
Exodus 38:3 He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.
Leviticus 16:12 Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
Numbers 4:14 and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.
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 Kings 7:40 Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
2 Kings 25:15 The captain of the guard also took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
1 Chronicles 28:17 the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
2 Chronicles 4:11 Additionally, 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: