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16 The hearth is square, 6.4 metres[a] long by 6.4 metres wide.(A) 17 The ledge is 7.4 metres[b] long by 7.4 metres wide, with four equal sides.(B) The rim all round it is 27 centimetres,[c] and its gutter is 53 centimetres all round it. The altar’s steps face east.’(C)

18 Then he said to me, ‘Son of man,(D) this is what the Lord God says: These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings(E) may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 43:16 Lit 12 cubits
  2. 43:17 Lit 14 cubits
  3. 43:17 Lit one-half cubit