Text -- Exodus 27:1 (NET)

The Altar

27:1 “You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 27:1

¹ tn The article on this word identifies this as the altar, meaning the main high altar on which the sacrifices would be made.

² tn The dimensions are five cubits by five cubits by three cubits high.

³ tn Heb “four”; this refers to four sides. S. R. Driver says this is an archaism that means there were four equal sides (Exodus, 291).

⁴ tn Heb “and three cubits its height.”