Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 27:3

3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins , and his flesh-hooks , and his fire-pans : all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

To receive the blood of the sacrifices, which they were to sprinkle.

Wherewith they took flesh out of the pot in which it was seethed, as 1 Sam. 2. 14. But this seems not proper here, because the flesh was never boiled upon the Altar, but in other places appointed for that use. And the Hebrew word is general and may signify either tongs, or fire-forks.

In which they carried li[illegible: 1+ letters]e coals from this Altar to that of Incense, as occasion required.

Marginal references: Or, bowls. Gr. Vials. [illegible: 1+ letters] Chron. 4. 8.