Units
Cubit
The cubit is a unit of length. The ark of the Testimony is two and a half cubits long. The bronze altar is five cubits square and three cubits high; the court is a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and five cubits high. The incense altar is one cubit square and two cubits high.
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Length of the ark of the Testimony: two and a half cubits
First mention
Genesis 6:15
Scripture references
- Genesis 6:15
This is how to build it: the length of the ark is to be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
- Exodus 25:10
'You must make me an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and one and a half cubits high.
- Exodus 26:2
The length of a single sheet is to be twenty-eight cubits, its width four cubits, all the sheets to be of the same size.
- Exodus 26:16
Each frame must be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
- Exodus 27:1
'You will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar will be square and three cubits high.
- Exodus 27:18
The length of the court must be one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits and its height five cubits. All the curtaining must be made of finely woven linen, and their sockets of bronze.
- Exodus 30:2
one cubit long, and one cubit wide -- it must be square -- and two cubits high; its horns must be of a piece with it.