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New Living Translation

Ezekiel 43:16

The top of the altar is square, measuring 21 feet by 21 feet.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ariel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Hearth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - The Brazen Altar;   Foursquare;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'riel;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Altar;   Ariel;   Hearth;   Temple;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ariel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Numbers and Numerals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The hearth is square, 21 feet long by 21 feet wide.
Hebrew Names Version
The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.
King James Version
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
English Standard Version
The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad.
New American Standard Bible
"Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.
New Century Version
It is square, twenty-one feet long and twenty-one feet wide.
Amplified Bible
"Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the altar shalbe twelue cubites long, and twelue broade, and fouresquare in the foure corners thereof.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.
Berean Standard Bible
The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
Complete Jewish Bible
The hearth is a square twenty-one feet on each of its four sides.
Darby Translation
And the hearth of God was twelve [cubits] long, by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
Easy-to-Read Version
The place for the fire on the altar was 12 cubits long by 12 cubits wide. It was perfectly square.
George Lamsa Translation
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square on its four sides.
Good News Translation
The top of the altar was a square, 20 feet on each side.
Lexham English Bible
And the altar hearth was twelve cubits in length and twelve cubits in width; it was squared on its four sides.
Literal Translation
And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long, and twelve wide, square in its four sides.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and it was xij cubites longe and xij cubites brode, vpon the foure corners:
American Standard Version
And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
Bible in Basic English
And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
King James Version (1611)
And the altar shalbe twelue cubites long, twelue broad, square in the foure squares thereof.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the aulter was twelue cubites long, and twelue cubites broade, square in the foure corners thereof.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the altar shall be of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve cubits in breadth, square upon its four sides.
English Revised Version
And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
World English Bible
The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the auter of twelue cubitis in lengthe was foure cornerid with euene sidis, bi twelue cubitis of breede.
Update Bible Version
And the altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the altar [shall be] twelve [cubits] long, twelve broad, square in the four squares of it.
New English Translation
Now the altar hearth is a perfect square, 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.
New King James Version
The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners;
New Life Bible
This top part of the altar will be twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, the same on each of the four sides.
New Revised Standard
The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve wide.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the hearth shall be twelve cubits in length, by twelve in breadth - -square in the four sides thereof.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with equal sides.
Revised Standard Version
The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad.
Young's Literal Translation
And the altar [is] twelve long by twelve broad, square in its four squares.
THE MESSAGE
"The top of the altar, the hearth, is square, twenty-one by twenty-one feet. The upper ledge is also square, twenty-four and a half feet on each side, with a ten-and-a-half-inch lip and a twenty-one-inch-wide gutter all the way around. "The steps of the altar ascend from the east."

Contextual Overview

13 "These are the measurements of the altar: There is a gutter all around the altar 21 inches deep and 21 inches wide, with a curb 9 inches wide around its edge. And this is the height of the altar: 14 From the gutter the altar rises 3 1⁄2 feet to a lower ledge that surrounds the altar and is 21 inches wide. From the lower ledge the altar rises 7 feet to the upper ledge that is also 21 inches wide. 15 The top of the altar, the hearth, rises another 7 feet higher, with a horn rising up from each of the four corners. 16 The top of the altar is square, measuring 21 feet by 21 feet. 17 The upper ledge also forms a square, measuring 24 1⁄2 feet by 24 1⁄2 feet, with a 21-inch gutter and a 10 1⁄2-inch curb all around the edge. There are steps going up the east side of the altar." 18 Then he said to me, "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: These will be the regulations for the burning of offerings and the sprinkling of blood when the altar is built. 19 At that time, the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who minister before me, are to be given a young bull for a sin offering, says the Sovereign Lord . 20 You will take some of its blood and smear it on the four horns of the altar, the four corners of the upper ledge, and the curb that runs around that ledge. This will cleanse and make atonement for the altar. 21 Then take the young bull for the sin offering and burn it at the appointed place outside the Temple area. 22 "On the second day, sacrifice as a sin offering a young male goat that has no physical defects. Then cleanse and make atonement for the altar again, just as you did with the young bull.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

twelve cubits: Exodus 27:1, 2 Chronicles 4:1, Ezra 3:3

square: Exodus 38:1, Exodus 38:2

Reciprocal: Isaiah 29:1 - woe Ezekiel 43:14 - the lower settle Ezekiel 43:20 - and on the four

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
But Abram replied, "O Sovereign Lord , what good are all your blessings when I don't even have a son? Since you've given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.
Genesis 21:8
When Isaac grew up and was about to be weaned, Abraham prepared a huge feast to celebrate the occasion.
Genesis 26:30
So Isaac prepared a covenant feast to celebrate the treaty, and they ate and drank together.
Genesis 31:54
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice to God there on the mountain and invited everyone to a covenant feast. After they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
Genesis 43:2
When the grain they had brought from Egypt was almost gone, Jacob said to his sons, "Go back and buy us a little more food."
Genesis 43:4
If you send Benjamin with us, we will go down and buy more food.
Genesis 43:5
But if you don't let Benjamin go, we won't go either. Remember, the man said, ‘You won't see my face again unless your brother is with you.'"
Genesis 43:10
If we hadn't wasted all this time, we could have gone and returned twice by now."
Genesis 43:19
The brothers approached the manager of Joseph's household and spoke to him at the entrance to the palace.
Genesis 44:1
When his brothers were ready to leave, Joseph gave these instructions to his palace manager: "Fill each of their sacks with as much grain as they can carry, and put each man's money back into his sack.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad,.... The length of it, from east to west, was twelve cubits; and the breadth, from north to south, was the same; so that it was a proper foursquare, as follows: Christ the altar, or the doctrine of his sacrifice and satisfaction for the sins of men, is the doctrine of the twelve apostles of Christ, and embraced by the twelve times twelve, the 144,000 that belong unto him:

square in the four squares thereof; as the altar in the tabernacle, and Solomon's temple, were, Exodus 27:1, denoting the largeness of Christ's sacrifice, the perfection of it, and its stability and permanency, to take away the sin, of his people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

altar - Ariel was to be an exact square on all sides. Compare Exodus 27:1; Revelation 21:16.


 
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