The altar of burnt offering gets built first among the tabernacle furnishings described. Atonement infrastructure goes up before anything else does. It also sits in the outer court, the most publicly accessible part of the whole complex. The most bas...
Theologicalועשית את המזבח וגו׳ ושלש אמות קמתו AND THOU SHALT MAKE AN ALTAR etc. AND THE HEIGHT THEREOF SHALL BE THREE CUBITS — These words should be understood as they are written (i. e. to mean exactly what they say — that its height was three cubits); this is...
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