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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Ezekiel 43:16

And the hearth shall be twelve cubits in length, by twelve in breadth - -square in the four sides thereof.

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 Living Translation
The top of the altar is square, measuring 21 feet by 21 feet.
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.
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 And these, shall be the measures of the altar, in cubits, a cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth; and the hollow, shall be a cubit, and a cubit the breadth, and the boundary thereof unto the edge thereof round about shall he a single span. And this, shall he the upper part of the altar, 14 And from the hollow of the ground unto the lower ledge, shall be two cubits, and the breadth, one cubit,- and from the smaller ledge unto the larger ledge, shall be four cubits, and the breadth, a cubit. 15 And the hearth, shall, be four cubits, - and from the hearth and upward, the horns shall be four. 16 And the hearth shall be twelve cubits in length, by twelve in breadth - -square in the four sides thereof. 17 And the ledge shall he fourteen in length, by fourteen in breadth, unto the four sides thereof, - and the boundary round about it shall be half a cubit and the hollow thereof a cubit round about, with the steps thereof looking toward the east. I 18 Then said he unto me, Son of man, Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh, There, shall be the statutes of the altar, in the day when it is made, - for offering up thereon - an ascending-sacrifice, and for dashing thereon - blood. 19 So then thou e shalt give unto the priests the Levites those who are of the seed of Zadok who approach unto me Declareth My Lord Yahweh. to wait upon me - a young bullock as a sin-bearer, 20 Then shalt thou take of the blood thereof and place upon the four horns thereof and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the boundary, round about, - and shalt cleanse it from sin and put a propitiatory-covering over it. 21 Then shalt thou take the bullock bearing sin,- and shalt burn it in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary, 22 And on the second day, shalt thou bring near a kid of the goats without defect as a sin-bearer, - and they shall cleanse the altar from sin just as they cleansed it from sin with the bullock,

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
And Abram said My Lord Yahweh, what canst thou give me, when, I, am going on childless, - and the heir of my house, is Eliezer, of Damascus,
Genesis 21:8
And the child grew, and was weaned, - and Abraham made a great banquet, on the day of the weaning of Isaac.
Genesis 26:30
So he made for them a banquet, and they did eat and drink, -
Genesis 31:54
and Jacob offered sacrifice in the mountain, and called on his brethren to eat bread. So they did eat bread, and tarried the night in the mountain.
Genesis 43:2
So it came to pass when they had made an end of eating the corn which they had brought in out of Egypt, that their father said unto them, - Return buy for us a little food.
Genesis 43:4
If thou art sending our brother with us, we will certainly go down, and buy for thee food;
Genesis 43:5
but, if thou art not sending him, we will not go down, for the man, said unto us Ye shall not see my face, except, your brother, is with you.
Genesis 43:10
For, if we had not lingered, surely now, had we come back here a second time.
Genesis 43:19
So they drew near unto the man that was over Joseph's house, - and spake unto him at the entrance of the house;
Genesis 44:1
Then commanded he him who was over his house saying - Fill the sacks of the men, with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of 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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