8. in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post, and there was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
9. Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell among them forever.
10. You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
11. If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.
12. This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
13. These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
14. From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit.
15. The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
16. The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.
17. The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.
18. He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.
19. You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.
20. You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
21. You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.
22. On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
23. When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.
24. You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
25. Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect.
26. Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.