Exodus 27:1

Context

The Altar

27:1 “You are to make the¹ altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long,² and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square,³ and its height is to be⁴ four feet six inches.

[27:1] ¹tn The article on this word identifies this as the altar, meaning the main high altar on which the sacrifices would be made.

[27:1] ²tn The dimensions are five cubits by five cubits by three cubits high.

[27:1] ³tn Heb “four”; this refers to four sides. S. R. Driver says this is an archaism that means there were four equal sides (Exodus, 291).

[27:1] ⁴tn Heb “and three cubits its height.”