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

18 Then he said to me, ‘Son of man,(C) this is what the Lord God says: These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings(D) may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:(E) 19 You are to give a bull from the herd(F) as a sin offering(G) to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok,(H) who approach me in order to serve me.’(I) This is the declaration of the Lord God.

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Footnotes

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