Ezekiel 43:17
The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
Note 14 (long) cubits is approximately 24.5 feet or 7.5 meters.
Note A half cubit is approximately 10.5 inches or 26.7 centimeters.
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”
And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof shall look toward the east.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- and the border
- Exodus 25:25; Exodus 30:3; 1 Kings 18:32
- his stairs
- Rather, "its ascents," {mäâlothehoo,} probably an inclined plane; for the law ordained that the priest should not ascend by stairs.
- Exodus 20:26
- look toward
- Ezekiel 8:16; Ezekiel 40:6; 1 Kings 6:8; Nehemiah 9:4