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Ezekiel 43:13

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These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

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.

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This verse in Ezekiel 43

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
The altar of sacrifice which stood in the inner court, not the altar of incense described Eze 41:22. In the temple of the vision the dimensions differ from those of the tabernacle Exo 27:1, and of Solomon’s Temple 2Ch 4:1, with a view to introduce definite propositions and symbolic numbers. See Plan L. The bottom - The base (I) of the altar so called, because it forms with its “border” (K) a kind of socket to receive the “lower settle” (L). It was to be “a cubit” in depth.

This site's exposition

the measurements of the altar in long cubits

on Ezekiel 43:13-17

The altar is measured “in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth),” rising by ledges to a hearth “twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide”. Commentators read the stepped ledges as an altar approached in stages, the restraint that governed the earlier altar of earth or unhewn stone (Exodus 20:24-25).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Vers. 13 seqq.) These are the measurements of the altar: in the true cubit, which is a cubit and a handbreadth (or παλαιστὴν) in his bosom, the cubit was in length, and its width was measured from its lip to the surrounding palm of one hand. This was also the trench of the altar. From the bosom of the earth to the outermost base, it was two cubits in height, and the width of one cubit. And from the smaller base to the larger base, it was four cubits, and the width of one cubit.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Border - A ledge going round on all the squares. The edge - On the outer edge of this settle a span high. The back - As the back bears burdens, so this was to bear the weight of the whole altar.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Directions are here given, 1. Concerning the dedication of the altar at first. Seven days were to be spent in the dedication of it, and every day sacrifices were to be offered upon it, and particularly a goat for a sin-offering (

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And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth - It is the same cubit by which all the previous admeasurements were made, and was a hand breadth or four inches longer than the Babylonian cubit.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֵ֨לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • מִדּ֤וֹת[are] [the] measurements of

    midotH4060 →55 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙the altar

    hamizbeachH4196 →401 times

  • בָּֽאַמּ֔וֹתby <the> cubits

    baamotH520 →247 times

  • אַמָּ֥הa cubit

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • אַמָּ֖ה[is] a cubit

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • וָטֹ֑פַחand a hand breadth

    vatofachH2948 →5 times

  • וְחֵ֨יקand a gutter

    vecheikH2436 →38 times

  • הָאַמָּ֜ה[is] the cubit

    haamahH520 →247 times

  • וְאַמָּה־and [is] a cubit

    veamah-H520 →247 times

  • רֹ֗חַב[the] breadth

    rochavH7341 →101 times

  • וּגְבוּלָ֨הּand border its

    ugevulahH1366 →240 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • שְׂפָתָ֤הּedge its

    sefatahH8193 →176 times

  • סָבִיב֙around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • זֶ֣רֶתa span

    zeretH2239 →

  • הָאֶחָ֔ד<the> one

    haechadH259 →971 times

  • וְזֶ֖הand this

    vezehH2088 →1180 times

  • גַּ֥ב[is] [the] mound of

    gavH1354 →13 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃the altar

    hamizbeachH4196 →401 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

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  • Through

    Ezekiel 40:5

    And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 42:20

      So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

    • Isaiah 26:1

      In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 4:1

    He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 8:64

      On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of…

    • Ezekiel 43:13–17

      These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its…

    • 2 Kings 16:14–15

      He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north…

    • 1 Kings 8:22

      Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

    • Exodus 27:1–8

      “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 41:8

    I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 40:5

      And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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