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The altar

13 These are the dimensions of the altar, according to a twenty-one-inch unit of measure.[a] The base is twenty-one inches high and twenty-one inches wide, with an outer curb measuring one and a half inches all around. This is the altar’s height. 14 From the base at ground level to the lower ledge is forty-two inches; the lower ledge is twenty-one inches wide. The distance from the lower to the upper ledge is seven feet; the upper ledge is twenty-one inches wide. 15 The hearth is seven feet high, with four horns projecting upward from the hearth. 16 The hearth is twenty-one feet square; each side is equal to the others. 17 The ledge around the hearth is twenty-four and a half feet long by twenty-four and a half feet wide, a square. Its outer rim is ten and a half inches, and its base all around is twenty-one inches. Its ramp faces east.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:13 Heb ammah ammah, traditionally a long cubit

13 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.

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 breadth one cubit.

15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

17 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.

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Ang Altar

13 “Ito ang sukat ng altar ayon sa umiiral na panukat: Sa paligid ng altar ay gagawa kayo ng parang kanal na 20 pulgada ang luwang at 20 pulgada rin ang lalim at may sinepa sa paligid na anim na pulgada ang kapal. 14-17 May tatlong palapag ang altar na parisukat lahat. Ang ibabang palapag ay 27 talampakan ang haba at luwang. Ang taas naman ay tatlong talampakan. Ang gitnang palapag ay 24 na talampakan ang haba at luwang at pitong talampakan naman ang taas. May kanal sa paligid nito na 20 pulgada ang lalim, at may sinepa sa palibot na sampung pulgada ang luwang. Ang palapag sa itaas ay 20 talampakan ang haba at luwang at pitong talampakan naman ang taas. Dito sinusunog ang mga handog. Ang apat na sulok ng altar ay may parang mga sungay ng hayop. Ang hagdan ng altar ay nasa gawing silangan.”

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