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Exodus 38:1

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the altar: This altar consisted of four boards of shittim: (acacia) wood, covered with brass, and hollow in the middle; but it is supposed to have been filled up with earth when used, for it is expressly said (Exodus 20:24) that the altar is to be of earth. As it was five cubits long and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, if the cubit be reckoned at 21 inches, it must have been eight feet nine inches square, and about five feet three inches in height. Exodus 27:1-8, Exodus 40:6, Exodus 40:29; 2 Chronicles 4:1; Ezekiel 43:13-17; Romans 8:3-4, Romans 12:1; Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 13:10; 1 Peter 2:5

foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof: Ezekiel 43:16; John 6:37; Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 21:16

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