Ezekiel 43:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.””
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the border <FI>is<Fi> fourteen long by fourteen broad, at its four squares, and the border round about it <FI>is<Fi> half a cubit, and the centre to it <FI>is<Fi> a cubit round about, and its steps are looking eastward.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 43:17 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:26And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’
- Exodus 25:25And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- Exodus 30:3Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
- 1 Kings 6:8The 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.
- 1 Kings 18:32And 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.
- Nehemiah 9:4And 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.
- Ezekiel 8:16So 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 and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
- Ezekiel 40:6Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.
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