Hesekiel 43:13

Elberfelder Bibel

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und dies sind die Maße des Altars, nach Ellen gerechnet, deren jede eine [gewöhnliche] Elle und eine Handbreite mißt. Seine Grundeinfassung: eine Elle hoch und eine Elle breit; und sein Gesims an seinem Rande ringsum: eine Spanne breit. Und dies ist die Höhe des Altars:

Lutherbible (1912)
Das aber ist das Maß des Altars nach der Elle, welche eine handbreit länger ist den die gemeine Elle: sein Fuß ist eine Elle hoch und eine Elle breit; und die Leiste an seinem Rand ist eine Spanne breit umher.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the measures: Exodus 27:1-8, 2 Chronicles 4:1

The cubits: Ezekiel 40:5, Ezekiel 41:8

bottom: Heb. bosom

edge: Heb. lip

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:1 - the altar Ezekiel 40:10 - they three Ezekiel 43:14 - the lower settle

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits,.... Of the altar of burnt offering, which though measured before, the dimensions were not given till now; see Ezekiel 40:47, this altar was a type of Christ, Hebrews 13:10 with respect to his deity, which is greater than the sacrifice of his human nature, the support of it, which sanctified it, and gave virtue and efficacy to it, and rendered it acceptable to God, Matthew 23:19 and the measures of it are said to be after the cubits used in the measuring of places and things belonging to this house, described; and what these were appears by what follows:

the cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; not the common cubit, but what was larger than that by a hand breadth, or three inches:

even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit; or, "the bosom" t; that is, the foundation of the altar, as the Targum and Jarchi; the basis, foot, or settle of it; this was a cubit high, and a cubit broad:

and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span; the edge or "lip" u, of this bottom or settle, was a cubit broad, for the priests to stand and go round the altar, and to this there was a border of a span, or half a cubit, to prevent their slipping; or else to keep the blood, poured at the foot of the altar, from running upon the pavement:

and this shall be the higher place of the altar; or the projection or jetting of it out beyond others, which was further than any other part; otherwise it was the lower part of the altar.

t חיק "sinus", Montanus; "gremium", Munster, Cocceius, Starckius. Ben Melech interprets it the middle of the altar. u שפתה "labium ejus", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The altar of sacrifice which stood in the inner court, not the altar of incense described Ezekiel 41:22. In the temple of the vision the dimensions differ from those of the tabernacle Exodus 27:1, and of Solomon’s Temple 2 Chronicles 4:1, with a view to introduce definite propositions and symbolic numbers. See Plan L.

The bottom - The base (I) of the altar so called, because it forms with its “border” (K) a kind of socket to receive the “lower settle” (L). It was to be “a cubit” in depth.

The “breadth” is the breadth of that portion of the base which was not covered by the “lower settle.”

The higher place - the base, literally back; the base is called the back because the altar rested upon it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 43:13. The cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth — It is the same cubit by which all the previous admeasurements were made, and was a hand breadth or four inches longer than the Babylonian cubit.