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OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 1

Exodus 27:1

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“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits† long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.†

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Exodus 27:1–4

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“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits† long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.†

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You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.

3

You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.

4

You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.

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  1. A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
  2. The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.

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