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And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east.
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And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood.
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You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.
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You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin.
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And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.
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And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox.
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And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark.
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And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord.
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Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them.
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For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.
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And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.