Bible Verses About Altars

Noach built an altar to Adonai. Then he took from every clean animal and every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Adonai appeared to Avram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to Adonai, who had appeared to him.

He left that place, went to the hill east of Beit-El and pitched his tent. With Beit-El to the west and ‘Ai to the east, he built an altar there and called on the name of Adonai.

Avram moved his tent and came to live by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hevron. There he built an altar to ADONAI.

They came to the place God had told him about; and Avraham built the altar there, set the wood in order, bound Yitz'chak his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

There he built an altar and called on the name of ADONAI. He pitched his tent there, and there Yitz'chak's servants dug a well.

There he put up an altar, which he called El-Elohei-Yisra'el [God, the God of Isra'el].

God said to Ya'akov, "Get up, go up to Beit-El and live there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled 'Esav your brother."

We're going to move on and go up to Beit-El. There I will build an altar to God, who answered me when I was in such distress and stayed with me wherever I went."

He built there an altar and called the place El-Beit-El [God of Beit-El], because it was there that God was revealed to him, at the time when he was fleeing from his brother.

Moshe built an altar, called it ADONAINissi [ADONAI is my banner/miracle],

For me you need make only an altar of earth; on it you will sacrifice your burnt offerings, peace offerings, sheep, goats and cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you.

If you do make me an altar of stone, you are not to build it of cut stones; for if you use a tool on it, you profane it.

Likewise, you are not to use steps to go up to my altar; so that you won't be indecently uncovered.'"

But if someone willfully kills another after deliberate planning, you are to take him even from my altar and put him to death.

Moshe wrote down all the words of ADONAI. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the base of the mountain and set upright twelve large stones to represent the twelve tribes of Isra'el.

"You are to make the altar of acacia-wood, seven-and-a-half feet long and seven-and-a-half feet wide - the altar is to be square and four-and-a-half feet high.

Make horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece with it; and you are to overlay it with bronze.

"Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat-hooks and fire pans; all its utensils you are to make of bronze.

Make for it a grate of bronze netting; and on the four corners of the netting, make four bronze rings.

Put it under the rim of the altar, so that the netting reaches halfway up the altar.

Make poles of acacia-wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.

Its poles are to be put into the rings; the poles are to be on both sides of the altar for carrying it.

The altar is to be made of planks and hollow inside. They are to make it just as you were shown on the mountain.

"You are to make an altar on which to burn incense; make it of acacia-wood.