Altar
A raised structure for offering sacrifices to God, serving as a place of encounter between the divine and human. Noah built an altar after the flood (Genesis 8:20). Abraham built altars at Shechem (Genesis 12:7), Bethel (13:4), and Moriah (22:9). The tabernacle and temple had two altars: the bronze altar for burnt offerings and the golden altar for incense. Elijah's contest on Mount Carmel centered on an altar (1 Kings 18:30-39). In the New Testament, Jesus is both priest and offering. Hebrews 13:10 speaks of 'an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat,' pointing to Christ's superior sacrifice.
Verses about Altar
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Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
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Genesis 12:8
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there h…
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Genesis 13:4
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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Genesis 13:18
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
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Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid…
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Genesis 26:25
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
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Genesis 33:20
And he erected there an altar, and called it El–elohe–Israel.
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Genesis 35:1
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth–el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from …
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Genesis 35:3
And let us arise, and go up to Beth–el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the wa…
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Genesis 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH–nissi:
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Exodus 20:24
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in al…
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Exodus 20:25
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
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Exodus 20:26
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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Exodus 21:14
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to th…
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Exodus 24:6
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
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Exodus 27:1
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be…
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Exodus 27:5
And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.