6And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
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And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread, …
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…
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