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"The ledge shall be fourteen* cubits long by fourteen*wide in its foursides, the borderaround it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubitroundabout; and its steps shall face the east."
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And He said to me, "Son of man, thussays the LordGOD, 'These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offerburntofferings on it and to sprinkleblood on it.
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'You shall give to the Leviticalpriestswho are from the offspring of Zadok, who drawnear to Me to minister to Me,' declares the LordGOD, 'a youngbull for a sinoffering.
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'You shall takesome of its blood and put it on its fourhorns and on the fourcorners of the ledge and on the borderroundabout; thus you shall cleanse it and makeatonement for it.
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'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighthday and onward, the priests shall offer your burntofferings on the altar, and your peaceofferings; and I will accept you,' declares the LordGOD."