Exodus 27:3

וְעָשִׂיתָ סִּֽירֹתָיו לְדַשְּׁנוֹ וְיָעָיו וּמִזְרְקֹתָיו וּמִזְלְגֹתָיו וּמַחְתֹּתָיו לְכָל־כֵּלָיו תַּעֲשֶׂה נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

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Hebrew

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ סִּֽירֹתָיו֙ לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹ וְיָעָיו֙ וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יו וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יו וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יו לְכָל־כֵּלָ֖יו תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ ποιήσεις στεφάνην τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ, καὶ τὸν καλυπτῆρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς φιάλας αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς κρεάγρας αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ πυρεῖον αὐτοῦ· καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ ποιήσεις χαλκᾶ.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Faciesque in usus ejus lebetes ad suscipiendos cineres, et forcipes atque fuscinulas, et ignium receptacula; omnia vasa ex ære fabricabis.

Spanish

Harás de bronce todos sus utensilios: los recipientes para las cenizas, las palas, los tazones, los tenedores y los braseros.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Harás también sus calderas para echar su ceniza; y sus paletas, y sus tazones, y sus garfios, y sus braseros: harás todos sus vasos de metal.

English

Make all its utensils of bronze — its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Exodus 27:3 lists the bronze utensils to be made for the altar: ash pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, forks, and fire-pans. The verse closes by specifying that all these implements must be made of bronze.

Key words

'a.Si.ta ("you will make", H6213H) — qal sequential perfect, continuing the instructional sequence begun in prior verses ("and you will make...").
si.ro.Ta ("pots", H5518A) — feminine plural construct noun, bound to the following suffix "its" (referring to the altar), meaning "its pots."
da.she.N ("take away ashes", H1878) — piel infinitive, an intensive verbal form expressing the purpose of the pots: "for removing its ashes."
ke.La ("articles", H3627) — masculine plural construct noun in the phrase le.khol-ke.La ("for all its articles"), summarizing the list before the final instruction.
ta.'a.Seh ("you will make", H6213H) — qal imperfect, a shift in verbal form from the earlier sequential perfect, marking the concluding directive about material (bronze).

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built as a chain of construct nouns, each bearing a third-person pronominal suffix ("its"), referring back to the altar mentioned in the surrounding context. The list proceeds: si.ro.Ta ("pots") governed by the infinitive da.she.N ("take away ashes") to specify their function, followed by ya.'A ("shovels"), miz.re.ko.Ta ("bowls"), miz.le.go.Ta ("forks"), and mach.to.Ta ("fire-pans"), each in construct plural form with the same possessive suffix. This construction ties every implement grammatically and referentially to the altar without needing to repeat the noun "altar" itself.

The verse opens with 'a.Si.ta, a qal perfect with vav-consecutive force, continuing a sequence of divine instructions using the same verb root as the sentence's final verb. The final clause shifts to ta.'a.Seh, a qal imperfect of the identical verb (H6213H), now governing the summarizing phrase le.khol-ke.La ("for all its articles") and specifying the material ne.Cho.shet ("bronze", H5178A). This repetition of the same verb in two different conjugations — perfect at the start, imperfect at the close — frames the whole list of utensils as one continuous instruction bracketed by two forms of "you will make."

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the first item as stephanē ("a rim/molding") for the altar itself, rather than "pots," and treats τὸν καλυπτῆρα ("the cover") as a separate item, differing from the Hebrew's si.ro.Ta ("pots"). The Vulgate's lebetes ("cauldrons/basins") corresponds more closely to the Hebrew "pots" sense than the LXX's "rim." The Vulgate also renders the list with terms like forcipes ("tongs") and fuscinulas ("small forks"), generally matching the Hebrew inventory of items, while the LXX's opening term departs structurally from the Hebrew construct chain.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.