Ezekiel 43:16

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Ezekiel 43:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

15 The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.

16 The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

17 The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

18 Then He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be sprinkled on it:

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 27:1

“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

2 Chronicles 4:1

He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Ezra 3:3

They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.

Exodus 38:1

Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

Exodus 38:2

He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.