Ezekiel 43:18

Purification of the altar

18 He said to me, Human one, the LORD God proclaims: These are the regulations established for the altar on the day when it is prepared for making entirely burned offerings and dashing blood on it.

Ezekiel 43:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 43:18

And he said unto me, son of man, thus saith the Lord God
This is the voice of the Lord continued, speaking out of the house to the prophet; see ( Ezekiel 43:6 ) : these are the ordinances of the altar:
not what go before, concerning the measures of it, but what follow, concerning the sacrifices to be offered on it: in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon,
and sprinkle blood thereon;
this plainly shows that this altar is the altar of burnt offerings; such were to be offered on it, and the blood of them to be sprinkled thereon, as follows; that is, upon the horns, corners, and border of it, ( Ezekiel 43:20 ) .

Ezekiel 43:18 In-Context

16 The hearth is twenty-one feet square; each side is equal to the others.

17 The ledge around the hearth is twenty-four and a half feet long by twenty-four and a half feet wide, a square. Its outer rim is ten and a half inches, and its base all around is twenty-one inches. Its ramp faces east.

18 He said to me, Human one, the LORD God proclaims: These are the regulations established for the altar on the day when it is prepared for making entirely burned offerings and dashing blood on it.

19 You will provide a young bull as a purification offering to the levitical priests who are descendants of Zadok, the ones who may draw near to minster to me. This is what the LORD God says.

20 You will take some of its blood and set it on the four horns of the altar and on the four sides of the ledge and on the curb all around. So you will purify it and purge it.