7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet 8 long, six feet 9 wide, and four-and-a-half feet 10 high.
1 tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
3 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
4 tn Heb “five cubits.” This must refer to the height of each floor or room.
7 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).
8 tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).
9 tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”
10 tn Heb “four cubits.”
11 tn Heb “four cubits.”
12 tn Heb “three cubits.”
13 tn Heb “a cubit-and-a-half” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).
16 tn Heb “and on top of the stand, a half cubit [in] height, round all around” (the meaning of this description is uncertain).