Exodus 38:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.”
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“Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And he maketh the altar of burnt-offering of shittim wood, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth (square), and three cubits its height;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 38:1 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Exodus 30:17And the LORD said to Moses,
- Exodus 40:6Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
- Exodus 40:29He placed the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- 2 Chronicles 1:5But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.
- 2 Chronicles 4:1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
- Ezekiel 43:13These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- Ezekiel 43:16The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
- John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
- Romans 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
- Hebrews 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
- Hebrews 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- Hebrews 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- Hebrews 13:10We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
- 1 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Revelation 21:16The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
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