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It is to be square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and it is to be 4½ feet high. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/exodus/27-1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/exodus/27-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/exodus/27-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/1.htm">Exodus</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/27.htm">Chapter 27</a> > Verse 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/26-37.htm" title="Exodus 26:37">◄</a> Exodus 27:1 <a href="../exodus/27-2.htm" title="Exodus 27:2">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/exodus/27.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/exodus/27.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Make an altar out of acacia wood. It is to be square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and it is to be 4½ feet high. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/27.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and it shall be three cubits high.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/exodus/27.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Use acacia wood to build an altar 2.25 meters square and 1.34 meters high, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/27.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall make an altar of acacia wood, on a square, five cubits long and five cubits wide; it shall be three cubits high.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/exodus/27.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">altar of shittim wood</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/20-24.htm">Exodus 20:24-26</a> You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/24-4.htm">Exodus 24:4</a> And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/38-1.htm">Exodus 38:1-7</a> He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits square, and three in height: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/40-10.htm">Exodus 40:10,29</a> The altar of holocaust and all its vessels: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/24-18.htm">2 Samuel 24:18</a> And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/4-1.htm">2 Chronicles 4:1</a> He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/43-13.htm">Ezekiel 43:13-17</a> 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. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/13-10.htm">Hebrews 13:10</a> We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/exodus/27.htm">The Bronze Altar</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl">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.</span><span class="reftext">2</span>And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/20-24.htm">Exodus 20:24</a></span><br />You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/35-16.htm">Exodus 35:16</a></span><br />The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/38-1.htm">Exodus 38:1</a></span><br />He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits square, and three in height:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/3-31.htm">Numbers 3:31</a></span><br />And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/4-13.htm">Numbers 4:13</a></span><br />They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/16-14.htm">2 Kings 16:14</a></span><br />But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar towards the north.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/6-49.htm">1 Chronicles 6:49</a></span><br />But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/4-1.htm">2 Chronicles 4:1</a></span><br />He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/3-2.htm">Ezra 3:2</a></span><br />And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/43-13.htm">Ezekiel 43:13</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/43-16.htm">Ezekiel 43:16</a></span><br />And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with equal sides.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/26-37.htm">Acacia</a> <a 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