Exodus 27:1

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.

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1	tn The article on this word identifies this as the altar, meaning the main high altar on which the sacrifices would be made.
2	tn The dimensions are five cubits by five cubits by three cubits high.
3	tn Heb “four”; this refers to four sides. S. R. Driver says this is an archaism that means there were four equal sides (Exodus, 291).
4	tn Heb “and three cubits its height.”