Exodus 27:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

Exodus 27:5 —

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Exodus 38:4
And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

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Altar Architecture Carpentry Church Consecration Curtains Golden Altar Grate

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God’s domestic servants), but in the court before the tabernacle, where, as common subjects, they attended. There an altar was ordered to be set up, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. put it under the compass of the altar beneath--that is, the grating in which they were carried to a clean place (Le 4:12).