15. The altar hearth will be four cubits high. Four horns will project upward from the hearth.
16. The hearth will be 12 cubits long by 12 wide, with four sides square.
17. The ledge will be 14 cubits long and 14 wide with four sides square. The border surrounding it will be half a cubit and its bottom will be a cubit all around. Its steps will face east.”
18. Then he said to me, “Son of man, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day when they will construct it, in order to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.
19. Give a young bull for a sin offering to the Levitical kohanim who are from the offspring of Zadok, who come near to Me to minister to Me’”—it is a declaration of Adonai.
20. “You are to take some of its blood and put it on its four horns, on the four corners of the ledge and on the border around it. So you will purify it and make atonement for it.
21. Take the bull of the sin offering and burn it in the appointed place of the House, outside the Sanctuary.
22. “On the second day, offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering. They will purify the altar as they purified it with the bull.
23. When you have finished purifying it, offer a young bull without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
24. Present them before Adonai. The kohanim will cast salt upon them. They will offer them up as a burnt offering to Adonai.
25. Every day for seven days, prepare a goat as a sin offering. They will prepare a young bull and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
26. They will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it for seven days. This is how they will consecrate it.
27. When they have completed the days, from the eighth day and onward the kohanim will make your burnt offerings upon the altar as well as your fellowship offerings. Then I will accept you”—it is a declaration of Adonai.