Exodus 30:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high --its horns of one piece with it.

New Living Translation
Make it 18 inches square and 36 inches high, with horns at the corners carved from the same piece of wood as the altar itself.

English Standard Version
A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

Berean Study Bible
It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.

New American Standard Bible
Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit; it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

NASB 1995
"Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

NASB 1977
“Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

Amplified Bible
It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide. It shall be square and it shall be two cubits high. Its horns of one piece with it.

Christian Standard Bible
It must be square, eighteen inches long and eighteen inches wide; it must be thirty-six inches high. Its horns must be of one piece with it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It must be square, 18 inches long and 18 inches wide; it must be 36 inches high. Its horns must be of one piece.

Contemporary English Version
Make it 45 centimeters square and 90 centimeters high, and make each of its four corners stick up like the horn of a bull.

Good News Translation
It is to be square, 18 inches long and 18 inches wide, and it is to be 36 inches high. Its projections at the four corners are to form one piece with it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Make it 18 inches square and 36 inches high. The horns and altar must be made out of one piece [of wood].

International Standard Version
It is to be a square, one cubit long and one cubit wide, and it is to be two cubits high, with its horns of one piece with it.

NET Bible
Its length is to be a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, with its horns of one piece with it.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

New King James Version
A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its width—it shall be square—and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

King James 2000 Bible
A cubit shall be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of it; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height of it: its horns shall be of one piece with it.

New Heart English Bible
Its length shall be a twenty-one inches, and its breadth twenty-one inches. It shall be square, and its height shall be three feet five inches.

World English Bible
Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

American King James Version
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

American Standard Version
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.

A Faithful Version
A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square. And two cubits shall be the height of it, its horns shall be from itself.

Darby Bible Translation
a cubit the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof -- square shall it be; and two cubits its height; of itself shall be its horns.

English Revised Version
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.

Webster's Bible Translation
A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be its hight: its horns shall be of the same.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The length therof a cubite and the breadth thereof a cubite (it shalbe foure square) and the height thereof two cubites: the hornes thereof shalbe of the same,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
A cubite long, and a cubite brode, eue foure square shall it be, and two cubites hye: the hornes therof shall proceede out of it.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
a cubyte longe & brode, eauen foure squared, and two cubytes hye with his hornes,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
a cubet longe, and a cubet brode, euen fouresquare shall it be and two cubettes hye: with hornes procedyng out of it,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
a cubit its length and a cubit its breadth (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns [are] of the same.

Young's Literal Translation
a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns are of the same.

Smith's Literal Translation
A cubit its length, a cubit its breadth; it shall be four-square; and two cubits its height: its horns out of it.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, foursquare, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.

Catholic Public Domain Version
having one cubit in length, and another in width, that is, four equal sides, and two cubits in height. Horns shall proceed from the same.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A cubit its length, a cubit its width; it shall be square, and its height two cubits; its horns shall be part of it.

Lamsa Bible
A cubit long, and a cubit wide; foursquare shall it be; and its height shall be two cubits; the horns thereof shall be of one piece of the same material.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt make it a cubit in length, and a cubit in breadth: it shall be square; and the height of it shall be of two cubits, its horns shall be of the same piece.
















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