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Objects & worship

Bronze Altar

The large altar in the sanctuary court used for animal and other offerings.

Also called · altar of burnt offering

What it means

The tabernacle altar was a hollow wooden structure overlaid with bronze, with horns at its corners.

Priests offered burnt offerings and other sacrifices on it according to Israel’s ritual laws.

How it appears in the Bible

It stood in the court outside the tent and remained a central place of sacrifice in Israel’s sanctuary tradition.

Translation note

It is also called the “altar of burnt offering.”