Reference: Foursquare
Morish
This may perhaps be said to be the most perfect earthly shape of a plane (the 'cube' being perfection for a solid). See 'four' under NUMBFRS. It was the shape of the brazen altar, Ex 27:1; 38:1; the breastplate, Ex 28:16; 39:9; and the altar of incense, Ex 30:2; 37:25. Apparently it was the shape of the 'panels' of the base of the molten sea in Solomon's temple, 1Ki 7:31; also of the court of the future temple, Eze 40:47; the altar of the same, Eze 43:16; the portion of the land offered as a holy oblation, Eze 48:20; for the sanctuary, Eze 45:2; and for the city, Eze 48:16.
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"You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.
It is to be square when doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide.
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.
He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half -- a square -- and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it.
He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide -- it was square -- and its height was four feet six inches.
It was square -- they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled.
Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames.
He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.
Now the altar hearth is a perfect square, 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.
Of this area a square 875 feet by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary, with 87? feet set aside for its open space round about.
these will be its measurements: The north side will be one and one-half miles, the south side one and one-half miles, the east side one and one-half miles, and the west side one and one-half miles.
The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.