Ezekiel 43:13 · KJV
“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. {bottom: Heb. bosom} {edge: Heb. lip}”
— Ezekiel 43:13
This {is} the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about {shall be} most holy. Behold, this {is} the law of the house.
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.
Ezekiel 43 — Context
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write {it} in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
12This {is} the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about {shall be} most holy. Behold, this {is} the law of the house.
13And 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. {bottom: Heb. bosom} {edge: Heb. lip}
14And 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.
15So the altar {shall be} four cubits; and from the altar and upward {shall be} four horns. {the altar (first): Heb. Harel, that is, the mountain of God} {the altar (second): Heb. Ariel, that is, the lion of God}
Cross References
Ezekiel 40:5
And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits {long} by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Ezekiel 41:8
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers {were} a full reed of six great cubits.
2 Chronicles 4:1
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
Exodus 27:1-8
And thou shalt make an altar {of} shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof {shall be} three cubits.
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