Commentary for Zevachim 123:4

בשלמא בית מינכרא צורתו אלא מזבח מנא ידעי

[this intimated that the altar was] like the house: as the house was sixty cubits [in length], so were there sixty cubits for the altar.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An area of sixty cubits square was sacred for the altar, and they might build it anywhere within that. Nevertheless, they did not need it so large, and therefore they enlarged it merely according to their requirements.');">⁷</span> As for the Temple, it is well, for its outline was distinguishable;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They could easily ascertain, from a study of the ruins, what had been sanctified for each part of the Temple.');">⁸</span>

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