Ezekiel 43:17 “The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubi…”

Ezekiel 43:17

The 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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

World English Bible

The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”

American Standard Version

And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof shall look toward the east.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye frame shalbe foureteene cubites log, and fourteene broade in the fouresquare corners thereof, and the border about it shalbe halfe a cubite, and the bottome therof shalbe a cubite about, and the steps thereof shalbe turned towarde ye East.

Darby Translation

And the settle was fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it, half a cubit; and the bottom thereof a cubit round about: and its steps looked toward the east.

Young's Literal Translation

And the border [is] fourteen long by fourteen broad, at its four squares, and the border round about it [is] half a cubit, and the centre to it [is] a cubit round about, and its steps are looking eastward.'

Bible in Basic English

And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east.

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Cross references

“and the border”

Exodus 25:25 Exodus 30:3 1 Kings 18:32

Exodus 25:25 · BSB

And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.

Exodus 30:3 · BSB

Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.

1 Kings 18:32 · BSB

And with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.

“his stairs”

Exodus 20:26

Exodus 20:26 · BSB

And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’

“look toward”

Ezekiel 40:6 Ezekiel 8:16 1 Kings 6:8 Nehemiah 9:4

Ezekiel 40:6 · BSB

Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.

Ezekiel 8:16 · BSB

So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD…

1 Kings 6:8 · BSB

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

Nehemiah 9:4 · BSB

And the Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani—stood on the raised platform and cried out in a loud voice to the LORD their God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

18Then He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:

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