27:1 “You are to make the 7 altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, 8 and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, 9 and its height is to be 10 four feet six inches.
37:25 He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. 11
38:1 He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide – it was square – and its height was four feet six inches.
1 tn Heb “four.”
2 tn “when” is added for clarification (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 375).
3 tn The word זֶרֶת (zeret) is half a cubit; it is often translated “span.”
4 tn Heb “a cubit.”
5 tn Heb “two cubits.”
6 tn Heb “its horns from it.”
7 tn The article on this word identifies this as the altar, meaning the main high altar on which the sacrifices would be made.
8 tn The dimensions are five cubits by five cubits by three cubits high.
9 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).
10 tn Heb “and three cubits its height.”
10 tn Heb “from it were its horns,” meaning that they were made from the same piece.