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Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
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The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
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and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.
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When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
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There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
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Jacob Returns to Bethel
Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
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Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”
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There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
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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.
