"Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide. 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. Make all its utensils of bronze--its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans. Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network. Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar. Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried. Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain."
(Exodus 27:1-8 NIV)

• Acacia wood overlaid with copper (brass).
• Size: 5 cubits long and 5 cubits wide (square), 3 cubits high.
• Horns on four corners of acacia wood, overlaid with copper (brass).
• Pans to collect ash, shovels, basins, forks, coal pans all made of copper (brass).
• A grate of copper with four rings on the corners, inserted into the surface of the top of the altar within the frame. The four rings were stave holders to remove the mesh, and held the mesh flush with the top of the altar. These rings aligned to the rings to carry the outer shell. (8 rings total, four on mesh and four on outer shell.
• Carrying staves of acacia, overlaid with copper.
• Hollow in the center of the metal overlaid boards.
• Placed inside the door of the Tabernacle