27:1 “You are to make the 4 altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, 5 and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, 6 and its height is to be 7 four feet six inches.
1 tn Heb “the frame.”
2 tn Heb “the frame.”
3 tn Heb “the one.”
3 tn The article on this word identifies this as the altar, meaning the main high altar on which the sacrifices would be made.
4 tn The dimensions are five cubits by five cubits by three cubits high.
5 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).
6 tn Heb “and three cubits its height.”