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x.ii.xxvii-p3.5

x.ii.xxvii-p3.586 words

3. shovels—fire shovels for scraping together any of the scattered ashes.

basons—for receiving the blood of the sacrifice to be sprinkled on the people.

fleshhooks—curved, three-pronged forks (1Sa 2:13, 14).

fire-pans—A large sort of vessel, wherein the sacred fire which came down from heaven (Le 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 [Patrick, Spencer, Le Clerc].