“And the altar hearth ('ari'el) shall be shall be twelve long by twelve broad, square in its four sides.”

The whole altar was to be foursquare indicating its perfection but it is only as regards the altar hearth that we are specifically told this. It is a large altar, twelve cubits by twelve cubits at the top (contrast Exodus 27:1 where the altar was five cubits by five cubits and 2 Chronicles 4:1 where Solomon's altar was twenty cubits by twenty cubits but not said to be stepped.).

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