Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Exodus 38:1

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the altar: This altar consisted of four boards of shittim (acacia) wood, covered with brass, and hollow in the middle; but it is supposed to have been filled up with earth when used, for it is expressly said ( Exo 20:24) that the altar is to be of earth. As it was five cubits long and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, if the cubit be reckoned at 21 inches, it must have been eight feet nine inches square, and about five feet three inches in height. Exo 27:1-8, Exo 40:6, Exo 40:29; Ch2 4:1; Eze 43:13-17; Rom 8:3, Rom 8:4, Rom 12:1; Heb 3:1; Heb 9:14, Heb 13:10; Pe1 2:5 foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof: Eze 43:16; Joh 6:37; Heb 13:8; Rev 21:16 Exodus 38:2

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