Bible Verses About Altars

And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.

And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.

Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained me in my journey.

And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place, The house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his brother.

And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying:

You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.

Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.

And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.

And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt make of brass.

And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at the four corners of which, shall be four rings of brass,

Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate shall be even to the midst of the altar.

Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar, of setim wood, which thou shalt cover with plates of brass:

And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both sides of the altar to carry it.

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

Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.