Ezekiel 43:17

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.

And the settle {H5835} shall be fourteen {H702}{H6240} cubits long {H753} and fourteen {H702}{H6240} broad {H7341} in the four {H702} squares {H7253} thereof; and the border {H1366} about {H5439} it shall be half {H2677} a cubit {H520}; and the bottom {H2436} thereof shall be a cubit {H520} about {H5439}; and his stairs {H4609} shall look {H6437} toward the east {H6921}.

The ledge measures a square twenty-four-and-a-half feet on each of its four sides; the molding around it ten-and-a-half inches [across]; and its base twenty-one inches [larger than the rest, all the way] around. Its steps face east.

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.”

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.

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 20:26 (5 votes)

    Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

  • Ezekiel 40:6 (3 votes)

    Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, [which was] one reed broad; and the other threshold [of the gate, which was] one reed broad.

  • Nehemiah 9:4 (2 votes)

    ¶ Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.

  • Exodus 30:3 (2 votes)

    And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

  • 1 Kings 6:8 (2 votes)

    The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third.

  • Ezekiel 8:16 (2 votes)

    And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

  • Exodus 25:25 (2 votes)

    And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.