Quoting%20commentary for Yoma 32:1

עשר אמות כנגד פתחו של היכל י"א אמה לצפון וי"א אמה לדרום נמצא מזבח מכוון כנגד היכל וכותליו

ten cubits opposite the door of the Temple, eleven cubits toward the north, and eleven cubits toward the south. With the result that the altar was exactly opposite the Temple and its walls.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The inside of the Temple was twenty cubits, the walls were six cubits in depth, and the height of the altar was nine cubits to which must be added the thirteen and a half cubits rise in the level of the Court of the Israelites where the altar stood making a total of twenty-two and a half cubits; thus the altar would hide the Temple door, hence the lower eastern wall. V. Zeb. 58b.');">¹</span>

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