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TSK · Exodus 40:29

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"You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.

He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.

Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.