The Great Altar Restored

¹³ “These are the measurements of the altar^(A) in long cubits,^[a] that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span^[b] around the edge. And this is the height of the altar: ¹⁴ From the gutter on the ground up to the lower ledge that goes around the altar it is two cubits high, and the ledge is a cubit wide.^[c] From this lower ledge to the upper ledge that goes around the altar it is four cubits high, and that ledge is also a cubit wide.^{[d] 15} Above that, the altar hearth^(B) is four cubits high, and four horns^(C) project upward from the hearth. ¹⁶ The altar hearth is square, twelve cubits^[e] long and twelve cubits wide.^{(D) 17} The upper ledge^(E) also is square, fourteen cubits^[f] long and fourteen cubits wide. All around the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a rim of half a cubit.^[g] The steps^(F) of the altar face east.^(G)”

¹⁸ Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings^(H) and splashing blood^(I) against the altar when it is built: ¹⁹ You are to give a young bull^(J) as a sin offering^[h] to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok,^(K) who come near^(L) to minister before me, declares the Sovereign Lord. ²⁰ You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar^(M) and on the four corners of the upper ledge^(N) and all around the rim, and so purify the altar^(O) and make atonement for it. ²¹ You are to take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the designated part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.^(P)