16 The altar hearth is square, twelve cubits[a] long and twelve cubits wide. 17 The upper ledge also is square, fourteen cubits[b] long and fourteen cubits wide. All round the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a kerb of half a cubit.[c] The steps of the altar face east.’

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 and splashing blood against the altar when it is built:

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:16 That is, about 6.4 metres
  2. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 7.4 metres
  3. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 27 centimetres