Ezra 3:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ So they set the altar on its stands, being afraid of the peoples of the lands. And they offered burnt offerings on it to יהוה, both the morning and evening burnt offerings.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And they set the altar [in its place] upon its base, for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the countries; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord morning and evening.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And they set the altar upon its base; for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah, even burnt-offerings morning and evening.

Common English Bible

³ They set up the altar on its foundations, because they were afraid of the neighboring peoples, and they offered entirely burned offerings upon it to the LORD, both the morning and the evening offerings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Now they set the altar of God upon its bases, while keeping the people of all the surrounding lands away from it. And they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord, morning and evening.

Ezra 3:3 Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:40

to offer burnt offerings to יהוה  on the altar of burnt offering regularly morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the Torah of יהוה  which He commanded Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 4:1

And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Ezra 4:4

And it came to be that the people of the land were weakening the hands of the people of Yehuḏ

Ezra 5:15

and said to him, ‘Take these utensils, go, deposit them in the Hĕ

Ezekiel 43:16

“And the altar hearth is twelve cubits long, and twelve wide, square at its four corners.