Ezekiel 43:16
New International Version
The altar hearth is square, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

New Living Translation
The top of the altar is square, measuring 21 feet by 21 feet.

English Standard Version
The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad.

Berean Standard Bible
The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

King James Bible
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

New King James Version
The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners;

New American Standard Bible
Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

NASB 1995
“Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

NASB 1977
“Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

Amplified Bible
Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

Christian Standard Bible
The hearth is square, 21 feet long by 21 feet wide.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The hearth is square, 21 feet long by 21 feet wide.

American Standard Version
And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the length of the altar, twelve cubits, and its width, twelve, square on its four sides

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the altar shall be of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve cubits in breadth, square upon its four sides.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with equal sides.

English Revised Version
And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It was square, 21 feet wide and 21 feet long.

Good News Translation
The top of the altar was a square, 20 feet on each side.

International Standard Version
The hearth is to be twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide; that is, it will be a four-sided square.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.

Literal Standard Version
And the altar [is] twelve long by twelve broad, square in its four sides.

Majority Standard Bible
The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

New American Bible
The hearth was twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, a square with four equal sides.

NET Bible
Now the altar hearth is a perfect square, 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.

New Revised Standard Version
The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve wide.

New Heart English Bible
The altar hearth shall be twenty-four feet one inch long by twenty-four feet one inch broad, square in the four sides of it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares of it.

World English Bible
The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

Young's Literal Translation
And the altar is twelve long by twelve broad, square in its four squares.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Altar of Sacrifice
15The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth. 16The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide. 17The 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.”…

Cross References
Exodus 27:1
"You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

1 Kings 8:51
For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.


Treasury of Scripture

And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

twelve cubits

Exodus 27:1
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

2 Chronicles 4:1
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

Ezra 3:3
And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

square

Exodus 38:1,2
And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof…

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Ezekiel 43
1. The returning of the glory of God into the temple
7. The sin of Israel hindered God's presence
10. The prophet exhorts them to repentance and observation of the law of the house
13. The measures
18. and ordinances of the altar














Verses 16, 17. - The measurements that now begin concern the breadth of the altar, and proceed from above downwards. First the altar, or, hearth of God (Hebrew, ariel) was twelve cubits long and twelve broad, i.e. was square in the four squares (or, sides) thereof, or a perfect square (comp. Exodus 27:1; Revelation 21:16). Next the settle, or, enclosure (Hebrew, הָעֲזָרָה) of ver. 14, was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen broad in the four squares (or, sides) thereof; the fourteen being made up of the twelve cubits of the altar-hearth's side with one cubit of ledge from the settle all round. The only question is to which "settle," the upper or the under, reference is made. Some expositors, identifying the greater Azarah with the Harel, i.e. the "upper settle," with "the mount of God" or the base of the hearth, make the altar height only seven cubits from the ground to the hearth. The general belief, however, is that they cannot be so identified. Among interpreters who distinguish them, Kliefoth, with whom Smend agrees, holds the "settle" in this verse to be the harel, or "mount of God," which extended (Smend says with a hek. or "gutter") one cubit on each side beyond the ariel, or "hearth of God," so that the "mount of God," on which the" hearth of God" rested, was fourteen cubits square. Then, assuming a similar extension of one cubit at each stage - in the greater azarah, the lesser azarah, and the hek, or ground bottom - he finds the surface of the greater azarah to be sixteen, of the lesser azarah eighteen, and of the ground bottom twenty cubits square. Keil, with whom Schroder and Currey agree, objects to this as involving too much of arbitrary assumption, and takes the" settle" of this verse to mean the lower azarah; so that no additional measurements are required beyond those given in the text. If the square surface of the greater azarah be considered as having been the same as that of the harel, so that their sides were continuous, then, as the "ground bottom" extended one cubit on each side beyond the lower azarsh, the altar at its base was a square of sixteen cubits. Comparing now these measurements with those of the altar of burnt offering in the tabernacle and the temple, one finds that the former was only five cubits square and three cubits high (Exodus 27:1), while the latter was twenty cubits broad, but only ten cubits high (2 Chronicles 4:1), which awakes the suspicion that the different views above noted have been insensibly influenced by a desire on the part of their authors to make them harmonize with the measurements of the temple. But there does not appear sufficient reason why the measurements of Ezekiel's altar should have agreed with those of Solomon's rather than with those of Moses', The border (or, parapet) of half a cubit which ran round the ledge, or bottom, of a cubit, at the foot of the lower azarah was clearly designed, not for the protection of the priest officiating, but for ornament. The stairs (or, steps), mention of which closes the description, mark a departure, not from the pattern of the Solomonic temple, in which the altar must have had steps (see Keil's 'Biblische Archaologie,' p. 141), but from the pattern of the tabernacle, in which altar-steps were disallowed (Exodus 20:26) and did not exist (Exodus 38:1-7). But if, as Jewish tradition asserts, the pest-exilic altar had no steps as Ezekiel's had, having been reached by an inclined plane, because in the so-called book of the covenant steps were forbidden, how does this harmonize with the theory that Ezekiel's vision temple was designed as a model for the post-exilic temple? And why, if the priest-code was the composition of a writer who worked in the spirit and on the lines of Ezekiel, should it have omitted to assign steps to the tabernacle altar?

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The altar [hearth] [shall be]
וְהָאֲרִיאֵ֗ל (wə·hā·’ă·rî·’êl)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 741: The altar of the temple

square
רָב֕וּעַ (rā·ḇū·a‘)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 7251: To be quadrate

at
אֶ֖ל (’el)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

its four
אַרְבַּ֥עַת (’ar·ba·‘aṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 702: Four

corners,
רְבָעָֽיו׃ (rə·ḇā·‘āw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7253: Fourth part, four sides

twelve [cubits]
שְׁתֵּ֤ים (šə·têm)
Number - fd
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

long
אֹ֔רֶךְ (’ō·reḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 753: Length

[and] twelve [cubits]
בִּשְׁתֵּ֥ים (biš·têm)
Preposition-b | Number - fd
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

wide.
רֹ֑חַב (rō·ḥaḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7341: Breadth, width


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