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.
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 This is in apposition to the direct object of the verb “engrave.” It further defines how the names were to be engraved – six on one and the other six on the other.
6 tn Heb “according to their begettings” (the major word in the book of Genesis). What is meant is that the names would be listed in the order of their ages.