Ezekiel 43:13
Good News Translation
These are the measurements of the altar, using the same unit of measure as in measuring the Temple. All around the base of the altar there was a gutter 20 inches deep and 20 inches wide, with a rim at the outside edge 10 inches high.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the dimensions of the altar by cubits (the cubit being one cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high, and one cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. This shall be the height of the altar:

Contemporary English Version
According to the official standards, the altar in the temple had the following measurements: Around the bottom of the altar was a gutter 50 centimeters wide and 50 centimeters deep, with a 25-centimeter ledge on the outer rim.

New American Bible
These were the dimensions of the altar in cubits, a cubit being one cubit plus a handbreadth. The channel was one cubit deep by one cubit wide, and its rim had a lip one span wide all around it. The height of the altar itself was as follows:

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the measures

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. . . .

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

The cubit

Ezekiel 40:5 And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed.

Ezekiel 41:8 And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of the side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six cubits:

bottom [heb] bosom

Context
The Altar of Sacrifice
13And 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.14And from the bottom of the ground to the lowest brim two cubits, and the breadth of one cubit: and from the lesser brim to the greater brim four cubits, and the breadth of one cubit.…
Cross References
Exodus 25:25
And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and over the same another little golden crown.

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.

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

Ezekiel 40:5
And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a handbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed.

Ezekiel 41:8
And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of the side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six cubits:

Ezekiel 43:12
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