Quotes about Altar
and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”
- Ezekiel 40:46
Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
- Ezekiel 40:47
There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 41:22
These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- Ezekiel 43:13
The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
- Ezekiel 43:15
The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 43:16
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.”
- Ezekiel 43:17
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:
- Ezekiel 43:18
You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.
- Ezekiel 43:20
Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.
- Ezekiel 43:21
On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull.
- Ezekiel 43:22
For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.
- Ezekiel 43:26