Exodus 27:2

You are to make its four horns ¹  on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, ²  and you are to overlay it with bronze.

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.

"You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

Make a horn at each of the four corners of the altar so the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar and its horns with bronze.

Make horns at each of the four corners. The horns are to be of one piece with the Altar and covered with a veneer of bronze.

Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.

You shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

"You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze.

You are to make its four horns ¹  on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, ²  and you are to overlay it with bronze.

¹ sn The horns of the altar were indispensable – they were the most sacred part. Blood was put on them; fugitives could cling to them, and the priests would grab the horns of the little altar when making intercessory prayer. They signified power, as horns on an animal did in the wild (and so the word was used for kings as well). The horns may also represent the sacrificial animals killed on the altar.

² sn The text, as before, uses the prepositional phrase “from it” or “part of it” to say that the horns will be part of the altar – of the same piece as the altar. They were not to be made separately and then attached, but made at the end of the boards used to build the altar (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 363).