16 The hearth is square, 21 feet[a] long by 21 feet wide.(A) 17 The ledge is 24½ feet[b] long by 24½ feet wide, with four equal sides.(B) The rim all around it is 10½ inches,[c] and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.”(C)

18 Then he said to me, “Son of man,(D) this is what the Lord God says: These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings(E) may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 43:16 Lit 12 cubits
  2. 43:17 Lit 14 cubits
  3. 43:17 Lit one-half cubit

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

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(E) and splashing blood(F) against the altar when it is built:

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:16 That is, about 21 feet or about 6.4 meters
  2. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 25 feet or about 7.4 meters
  3. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 11 inches or about 27 centimeters

16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

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