THEOSISExodus 38:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits square, and three in height:
וַיַּ֛עַשׂ אֶת־מִזְבַּ֥ח הָעֹלָ֖ה עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים חָמֵשׁ֩ אַמּ֨וֹת אָרְכּ֜וֹ וְחָֽמֵשׁ־אַמּ֤וֹת רָחְבּוֹ֙ רָב֔וּעַ וְשָׁלֹ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת קֹמָתֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 27:1Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.
- Ex 27:8Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the mount.
- Ezek 43:13And these are the measures of the altar by the truest cubit, which is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit: and the border thereof unto its edge, and round about, one handbreadth: and this was the trench of the altar.
- Ezek 43:17And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits broad in the four corners thereof: and the crown round about it was half a cubit, and the bottom of it one cubit round about: and its steps turned toward the east.
- Heb 13:10We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.
- Rev 21:16And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.
- 2 Chr 4:1He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
- Ex 40:29And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,