Commentary for Exodus 27:2
וְעָשִׂ֣יתָ קַרְנֹתָ֗יו עַ֚ל אַרְבַּ֣ע פִּנֹּתָ֔יו מִמֶּ֖נּוּ תִּהְיֶ֣יןָ קַרְנֹתָ֑יו וְצִפִּיתָ֥ אֹת֖וֹ נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it; and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
Rashi on Exodus
ממנו תהיין קרנתיו ITS HORNS SHALL BE OF THE SAME — i. e. he shall not make them separately and afterwards attach them to it (to the altar).
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Sforno on Exodus
קרנותיו, a feature of all altars, as were the shovels and the basins for the blood as receptacles.
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Rashbam on Exodus
ממנו תהיין קרנותיו, integral parts of the structure, not something superimposed.
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Rav Hirsch on Torah
V. 2. קרנות waren auf den vier Winkeln der Oberfläche sich erhebende Würfel von einer Kubikelle. ממנו תהיין, sie sollen nicht angesetzt, sondern mit dem Altar, oder doch der Altarplatte (je nachdem man das נבוב לחות V. 8 versteht), aus einem Stücke sein; es ist somit der Altar selbst, der mit diesen Winkelhöhen in die Höhe strebt.
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Rashi on Exodus
וצפית אתו נחשת AND THOU SHALT OVERLAY IT WITH COPPER — to atone for sins committed with effrontery (more lit., with impudence of forehead, the Hebrew expression for effrontery being, “having a copper forehead,”) as it is said, (Isaiah 48:4) “[Because I know that thou art obstinate] and that thy forehead is copper” (cf. our English expression “brazen-faced”) (Midrash Tanchuma, Terumah 11).
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