10. “Human, tell the people of Israel about the Temple so they will be ashamed of their sins. Let them think about the plan of the Temple.
11. If they are ashamed of all they have done, let them know the design of the Temple and how it is built. Show them its exits and entrances, all its designs, and also all its rules and teachings. Write the rules as they watch so they will obey all the teachings and rules about the Temple.
12. This is the teaching about the Temple: All the area around the top of the mountain is most holy. This is the teaching about the Temple.
13. “These are the measurements of the altar, using the measuring stick. The altar’s gutter is twenty-one inches high and twenty-one inches wide, and its rim is about nine inches around its edge. And the altar is this tall:
14. From the ground up to the lower ledge, it measures three and one-half feet. It is twenty-one inches wide. It measures seven feet from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge and is twenty-one inches wide.
15. The place where the sacrifice is burned on the altar is seven feet high, with its four corners shaped like horns and reaching up above it.
16. It is square, twenty-one feet long and twenty-one feet wide.
17. The upper ledge is also square, twenty-four and one-half feet long and twenty-four and one-half feet wide. The rim around the altar is ten and one-half inches wide, and its gutter is twenty-one inches wide all around. Its steps are on the east side.”
18. Then the man said to me, “Human, this is what the Lord God says: These are the rules for the altar. When it is built, use these rules to offer burnt offerings and to sprinkle blood on it.
19. You must give a young bull as a sin offering to the priests, the Levites who are from the family of Zadok and who come near me to serve me, says the Lord God.
20. Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the four corners of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim. This is how you will make the altar pure and ready for God’s service.
21. Then take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the proper place in the Temple area, outside the Temple building.
22. “On the second day offer a male goat that has nothing wrong with it for a sin offering. The priests will make the altar pure and ready for God’s service as they did with the young bull.
23. When you finish making the altar pure and ready, offer a young bull and a male sheep from the flock, which have nothing wrong with them.
24. You must offer them in the presence of the Lord, and the priests are to throw salt on them and offer them as a burnt offering to the Lord.
25. “You must prepare a goat every day for seven days as a sin offering. Also, the priests must prepare a young bull and male sheep from the flock, which have nothing wrong with them.
26. For seven days the priests are to make the altar pure and ready for God’s service. Then they will give the altar to God.