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:

¹⁷ The upper ledge^(A) also is square, fourteen cubits^[a] long and fourteen cubits wide. All around the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a rim of half a cubit.^[b] The steps^(B) of the altar face east.^(C)”