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Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner.
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Idols and Altars
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven:
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“‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.
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If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.
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And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.’
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But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.
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Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.
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The Altar of Burnt Offering
“Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.
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Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.
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Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
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Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
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The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
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Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
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Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants.
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Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar.
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Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
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Slaughter it and take the blood and splash it against the sides of the altar.
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Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord.
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Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides of the altar.
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And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.
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Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord, a food offering presented to the Lord.
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Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
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For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.
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“This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
