The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’
Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two seahs of seed.
The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.
You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.
And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.
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