Ezekiel 43:13

And these are the measures of the altar in cubits, The cubit is a cubit and a hand-breadth; and the bottom shall be a cubit high, and a cubit broad, and its border on its edge round about shall be a span: and this shall be the outside of the altar.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an 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.

In Context

12This is the law for the house, Upon the top of the mount shall its whole limit all round about be most holy: behold, this is the law for the house.

14And from the bottom upon the ground up to the lower projection shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser projection up to the greater projection shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 4:1He made also an altar of copper, twenty cubits being its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

Ezekiel 41:8And I saw the height of the house all round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full rod of six cubits under ground.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:8-13

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my… Read the whole commentary →

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