Discovery BoxExodus 27:1 
ContextThe Altar
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.
Exodus 27:6
Context27:6 You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.
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.”
