Exodus 27:6
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New International Version (©2011)
Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

New Living Translation (©2007)
For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

NET Bible (©2006)
You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Make poles out of acacia wood for the altar, and cover them with bronze.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

American King James Version
And you shall make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar of setim wood, which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with copper.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt make staffs for the altar, staffs of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

World English Bible
You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast made staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with brass.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 6, 7. - Staves, or polos, were needed for the carriage of the altar from place to place, as for the ark (Exodus 25:13) and the table of shew-bread (ib, ver. 28). They were to be inserted into the rings mentioned in ver. 4. As the altar was of bronze, so the rings were to be of bronze, and the staves overlaid with bronze. There is a gradual descent in the preciousness of the materials from the holy of holies to the holy place, and from that to the court.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood,.... Like those that were made for the ark, and for the same purpose:

and overlay them with brass; with plates of brass, whereas those for the ark were overlaid with gold.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6, 7. staves … rings—Those rings were placed at the side through which the poles were inserted on occasions of removal.

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The Bronze Altar
…5And you shall put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the middle of the altar. 6And you shall make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. 7And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be on the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

Exodus 25:5 ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood;
Exodus 25:11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
Exodus 27:5 Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
Exodus 27:7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.