A continual fire must be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished.

and he slaughtered it. ¹  Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides.

So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the sin offering calf which was for himself.

Then Joshua built an altar for the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebal,

So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.

He made a bronze altar, 30 feet ¹  long, 30 feet ²  wide, and 15 feet ³  high.

I maintain a pure lifestyle, ¹  so I can appear before your altar, ²  O Lord,

Now the altar hearth ¹  is a perfect square, 21 feet ²  long and 21 feet wide.

So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there ¹  and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up ²  his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

“You are to make the ¹  altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, ²  and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, ³  and its height is to be ⁴  four feet six inches.

and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar ¹  with your finger; all the rest of ²  the blood you are to pour out at the base of the altar.

With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar,

and must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, will splash its blood against the altar’s sides.

Then he must sprinkle ¹  some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the remainder of the blood ²  must be squeezed out at the base of the altar – it is a sin offering.

Next he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and so anointed the altar, all its vessels, and the wash basin and its stand to consecrate them.

You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices ¹  you must pour out on his ²  altar while you eat the meat.

When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw ¹  the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.

When the king heard what the prophet ¹  cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand ²  and ordered, ³  “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up ⁴  and he could not pull it back.