17 The upper ledge also is square, fourteen cubits[a] long and fourteen cubits wide. All round the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a kerb of half a cubit.[b] 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: 19 you are to give a young bull as a sin offering[c] to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who come near to minister before me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 7.4 metres
  2. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 27 centimetres
  3. Ezekiel 43:19 Or purification offering; also in verse 21, 22 and 25