Verse 17

And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:26 : 26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.
• Ezek 40:6 : 6 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.
• Exod 25:25 : 25 And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
• Exod 30:3 : 3 It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.
• 1 Kgs 6:8 : 8 The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.
• 1 Kgs 18:32 : 32 And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.
• Neh 9:4 : 4 Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on the steps of the Levites, crying in a loud voice to the Lord their God.
• Ezek 8:16 : 16 And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.