Exodus 38:1
Good News Translation
For burning offerings, he made an altar out of acacia wood. It was square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and it was 4½ feet high.

New Revised Standard Version
He made the altar of burnt offering also of acacia wood; it was five cubits long, and five cubits wide; it was square, and three cubits high.

Contemporary English Version
Bezalel built an altar of acacia wood for offering sacrifices. It was 2.25 meters square and 1.34 meters high

New American Bible
The altar for burnt offerings was made of acacia wood, on a square, five cubits long and five cubits wide; its height was three cubits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits square, and three in height:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits square, and three in height:

the altar.

21 inches, it must have been eight feet nine inches square, and about five feet three inches in height.

Exodus 27:1-8 Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high. . . .

Exodus 40:6,29 And before it the altar of holocaust. . . .

2 Chronicles 4:1 He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.

Ezekiel 43:13-17 And these are the measures of the altar by the truest cubit, which is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit: and the border thereof unto its edge, and round about, one handbreadth: and this was the trench of the altar. . . .

Romans 8:3,4 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh. . . .

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus:

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.

1 Peter 2:5 Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Ezekiel 43:16 And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with equal sides.

John 6:37 All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

Revelation 21:16 And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.

Context
The Altar of Burnt Offering
1He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits square, and three in height:2The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.…
Cross References
Exodus 25:5
And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:

Exodus 27:1
Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.

Exodus 31:9
And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot,

Exodus 38:2
The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.

2 Chronicles 1:5
And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of Hur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and all the assembly sought it:

Exodus 37:29
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