Exodus 27:8
Good News Translation
Make the altar out of boards and leave it hollow, according to the plan that I showed you on the mountain.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall make it hollow, with boards. They shall be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

Contemporary English Version
Construct the altar in the shape of an open box, just as you were shown on the mountain.

New American Bible
Make the altar itself in the form of a hollow box. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so it is to be made.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.

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Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.

as it was shewed Heb.

Exodus 25:9,40 According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you shall make it: . . .

Exodus 26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.

1 Chronicles 28:11,19 And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat, . . .

Matthew 15:9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

Colossians 2:20-23 If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world? . . .

Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.

Context
The Bronze Altar
7And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both sides of the altar to carry it. 8Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.
Cross References
Acts 7:44
The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.

Hebrews 8:5
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.

Exodus 25:40
Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.

Exodus 26:30
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern that was shewn thee in the mount.

Exodus 27:7
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