¹⁴ From the gutter on the ground up to the lower ledge that goes around the altar it is two cubits high, and the ledge is a cubit wide.^[a] From this lower ledge to the upper ledge that goes around the altar it is four cubits high, and that ledge is also a cubit wide.^[b]

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)”

²⁰ You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar^(A) and on the four corners of the upper ledge^(B) and all around the rim, and so purify the altar^(C) and make atonement for it.