Adam Clarke Commentary - Exodus 27:1

Adam Clarke Commentary - Exodus 27:1 - 27:1

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Exodus 27:1 - 27:1

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27:1 - 27:1
27:2 - 27:2
27:3 - 27:3
27:4 - 27:4
27:8 - 27:8
27:9 - 27:9
27:16 - 27:16
27:19 - 27:19
27:20 - 27:20
27:21 - 27:21

Thou shalt make an altar - מזבח mizbeach, from זבח zabach, to slay: Septuagint, θυσιαστηριον, from θυσιαζω, to sacrifice or from θυω to kill, etc. See Clarke’s note on Gen 8:20.

Four square - As this altar was five cubits long and five broad, and the cubit is reckoned to be twenty-one inches, hence it must have been eight feet nine inches square, and about five feet three inches in height, the amount of three cubits, taken at the same ratio.