Ezekiel 43:14
43:14 From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet, 1 and the width 1¾ feet; 2 and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet, 3 and the width 1¾ feet;
Ezekiel 43:17
43:17 The ledge is 24½ feet 4 long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, 5 and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. 6 Its steps face east.”
Ezekiel 43:20
43:20 You will take some of its blood, and place it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around; you will cleanse it and make atonement for it. 7
1 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
2 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm; the phrase occurs again later in this verse).
3 tn Heb “four cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters; the phrase also occurs in the next verse).
4 tn Heb “fourteen”; the word “cubits” is not in the Hebrew text but is understood from the context; the phrase occurs again later in this verse. Fourteen cubits is about 7.35 meters.
5 tn Heb “half a cubit” (i.e., 26.25 cm).
6 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
7 sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.