The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
Parallel translations
- KJV So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
- BSB The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
- NKJV The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth.
- NASB The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upward four horns.
- NLT The top of the altar, the hearth, rises another 7 feet higher, with a horn rising up from each of the four corners.
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- Exod 27:2You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.
- Lev 9:9The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:
- Ps 118:27Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
- 1 Kgs 2:28This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.
- Isa 29:7The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
- Isa 29:1–2Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
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