Eze 43:2and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory.
Eze 43:3The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he[fn] came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.
Eze 43:7He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[fn] for their kings at their death.[fn]
Eze 43:8When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger.
Eze 43:11and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement, its exits and entrances—its whole design and all its regulations[fn] and laws. Write these down before them so that they may be faithful to its design and follow all its regulations.
Eze 43:13“These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits,[fn] that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span[fn] around the edge. And this is the height of the altar:
Eze 43:14From the gutter on the ground up to the lower ledge that goes around the altar it is two cubits high, and the ledge is a cubit wide.[fn] From this lower ledge to the upper ledge that goes around the altar it is four cubits high, and that ledge is also a cubit wide.[fn]
Eze 43:17The upper ledge also is square, fourteen cubits[fn] long and fourteen cubits wide. All around the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a rim of half a cubit.[fn] The steps of the altar face east.”
Eze 43:18Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings and splashing blood against the altar when it is built:
Eze 43:19You are to give a young bull as a sin offering[fn] to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who come near to minister before me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Eze 43:20You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the upper ledge and all around the rim, and so purify the altar and make atonement for it.
Eze 43:22“On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.
Eze 43:25“For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.
Eze 43:27At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
That is, about 21 inches or about 53 centimeters; also in verses 14 and 17. The long cubit is the basic unit for linear measurement throughout Ezekiel 40–48.
