Exodus 27:7

“And the staves shall be put into the rings, etc.] Not into the rings of the grate, as Jarchi and others: though Dr. Lightfoot f800 thinks these came out of each corner through the altar frame, and hung out of the frame, and in these the staves being put, made the frame and the grate sure together, and so they were also carried together; but it seems rather, that as the grate had rings peculiar to that, to let it down and take it up, and with which it was carried, with a purple cloth covered over it, (<040413>Numbers 4:13) so the altar had rings peculiar to that on the sides of it, into which these staves were put: and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it; and which…”

“(Compare Exodus 38:1-7.) The great altar which stood in the court immediately in front of the tabernacle was commonly called the altar of burnt-offering, because on it were burnt the whole burnt-offerings, and all those parts of the other animal sacrifices which were offered to the Lord. It was also called the brazen altar, because it was covered with bronze, in distinction from the golden altar or altar of incense Exodus 39:38-39; Exodus 40:5-6. Exodus 27:2 His horns shall be of the same - These horns were projections pointing upward in the form either of a small obelisk, or of the horn of an ox. They were to be actually parts of the altar, not merely superadded to it. On them the blood of…”

“bear it: Exo 25:28, Exo 30:4; Num 4:13, Num 4:14 Exodus 27:8”