5. Then a wind lifted me up and brought me to the inner court; I watched the glory of the Lord filling the temple.
6. I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.
7. He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die.
8. When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.
9. Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.
10. “As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins and measure the pattern.
11. When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design – all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.
12. “This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.
13. “And these are the measurements of the altar: Its base is 1¾ feet high, and 1¾ feet wide, and its border nine inches on its edge. This is to be the height of the altar.
14. From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet, and the width 1¾ feet; and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet, and the width 1¾ feet;
15. and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.
16. Now the altar hearth is a perfect square, 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.
17. The ledge is 24½ feet long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. Its steps face east.”