Exodus 27:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

Shovels - fire-shovels for scraping together any of the scattered ashes.

Basins - for receiving the blood of the sacrifice to be sprinkled on the people.

Flesh-hooks - curved three-pronged forks (1 Samuel 2:13-14).

Fire-pans - a censer, or large sort of vessel, wherein the sacred fire which came down from heaven (Leviticus 9:24) was kept burning, while they cleaned the altar and the grate from the coals and ashes, and while the altar was carried from one place to another in the wilderness (Spencer, Le Clerc), and in which fire was taken to kindle incense (Leviticus 16:12; Numbers 16:6; 1 Kings 7:50).

Exodus 27:3

3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.