Ezekiel 43:17

The ledge is also to be square, measuring fourteen cubits by fourteen cubits, with a half-cubit rim and a one-cubit gutter all around it. The altar steps are to face the east.”

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In The King James Version

And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

In Context

16The altar hearth shall be square, its four sides each measuring twelve cubits.

18Then he told me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: These are the regulations regarding the altar once it's built, so that it can be used to sacrifice burnt offerings and to sprinkle blood on it:

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Cross References

Exodus 25:25Make a border around it the width of a hand and put a gold trim on the border.

1 Kings 6:8The entrance to the ground floor was on the south side of the Temple. Stairs led to the first floor, and then on to the second floor.

Nehemiah 9:4The Levites stood on the stage and called out loudly to the Lord their God. (Their names were Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani.)

Ezekiel 40:6Then he went up the steps of the east-facing gate. He measured the gate's threshold as six cubits deep.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:14-27

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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