27:1 “You are to make the 1 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 be 4 four feet six inches.
37:25 He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. 8
38:1 He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide – it was square – and its height was four feet six inches.
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.”
5 tn Heb “a cubit.”
6 tn Heb “two cubits.”
7 tn Heb “its horns from it.”
8 tn Heb “from it were its horns,” meaning that they were made from the same piece.