And, behold, the glory of the God of Israelcamefrom the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of manywaters: and the earthshinedwith his glory.
And it was according to the appearance of the visionwhich I saw, evenaccording to the visionthat I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visionswerelike the visionthat I saw by the riverChebar; and I fellupon my face.
And he saidunto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I willdwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holyname, shall the house of Israel no moredefile, neitherthey, nor theirkings, by theirwhoredom, nor by the carcases of theirkings in theirhighplaces.
In theirsetting of theirthreshold by my thresholds, and theirpost by my posts, and the wallbetween me and them, theyhaveevendefiled my holyname by theirabominationsthattheyhavecommitted: wherefore I haveconsumedthem in mineanger.
And if they be ashamed of all thattheyhavedone, shewthem the form of the house, and the fashionthereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the formsthereof, and all the ordinancesthereof, and all the formsthereof, and all the lawsthereof: and write it in theirsight, thatthey may keep the wholeformthereof, and all the ordinancesthereof, and do them.
And these are the measures of the altarafter the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an handbreadth; even the bottomshall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the borderthereof by the edgethereofroundaboutshall be a span: and thisshall be the higherplace of the altar.
And from the bottomupon the groundeven to the lowersettleshall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lessersettleeven to the greatersettleshall be fourcubits, and the breadth one cubit.
And the settleshall be fourteencubitslong and fourteenbroad in the foursquaresthereof; and the borderabout it shall be half a cubit; and the bottomthereofshall be a cubitabout; and his stairsshalllooktoward the east.
And he saidunto me, Son of man, thussaith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day whentheyshallmake it, to offerburntofferingsthereon, and to sprinklebloodthereon.
And thoushaltgive to the priests the Levitesthat be of the seed of Zadok, whichapproachunto me, to ministerunto me, saith the Lord GOD, a youngbullock for a sin offering.
And thoushalttake of the bloodthereof, and put it on the fourhorns of it, and on the fourcorners of the settle, and upon the borderroundabout: thusshaltthoucleanse and purge it.
And on the second day thoushaltoffer a kid of the goatswithoutblemish for a sin offering; and theyshallcleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
And whenthesedays are expired, it shall be, thatupon the eighth day, and so forward, the priestsshallmakeyourburntofferingsupon the altar, and yourpeaceofferings; and I willaccept you, saith the Lord GOD.