And these are the measures of the Altar] The compasse of the Altar was fortie eight cubits round about, viz. twelve cubits upon each side of the square, vers. 15. and this was thirtie two cubits short of the compasse of the Altar made by Solomon, 2 Chron. 4. 1. The height of it also was different from the height of his, for that was ten cubits, and this was but sixe. The fabricke of it was thus: Two cubits from the bottome of it, or from the ground was a ledge or a settle of a cubit broad without it round about: this was for them that served at the Altar to stand upon, and to goe upon round about the Altar, to rake up the ashes that were within the Altar: And therefore this Altar was not close boarded up upon the sides every where, as the Altar made by Moses was, which was moveable and of small dimensions; but this was boarded up only those two cubits that were betwixt this settle and the ground to keep the ashes together, but above this settle it was open at certaine places, that they might goe in and get the ashes out. Foure cubits above this ledge, was another of the same breadth round about the altar likewise, upon which the Priests might stand, for the disposing and ordering of the sacrifices. And these benches being a cubit broad, it caused that their compasse increased two cubits above the compasse of the altar it selfe in every side of the square. And that the standing of the Priests might be firme upon these benches, there was a ledge of halfe a cubit broad fixed upon the outward edge of them, that the Priests might not slip off into the Court, and a ledge which the Text calleth A bosome fixed upon their inner edge, that the Priests might not slip into the hollow of the Altar. And from thence upward were the hornes at every corner. even the bottome shall be a cubit] Hebr. The bosome. Meaning that ledge that went betwixt the higher bench and the Altar. And the breadth a cubit] Of the bench it selfe. And the border thereof by the edge thereof a span] A border carved, a span breadth upon the edge of that bosome or ledge that rose betwixt the bench and the Altar.