The ledge is 24½ feet ¹  long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, ²  and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. ³  Its steps face east.”

Its length is to be a foot and a half ¹  and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, ²  with its horns of one piece with it. ³ 

You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. ¹  The rings ²  will be places ³  for poles to carry it with.

He must present one of each kind of grain offering ¹  as a contribution offering ²  to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

He arranged the wood, cut up the bull, and placed it on the wood.

All the people went and demolished ¹  the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. ²  They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow ¹  builds a nest, where she can protect her young ²  near your altars, O Lord who rules over all, my king and my God.

He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, ¹  its four walls, ²  and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. ³ 

Then he ¹  cut the ram into parts, ²  and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,

Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship ¹  the Lord.”

I am not condemning ¹  you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. ² 

That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.

Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; ¹  its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings. ² 

There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; ¹  there they washed the burnt offering.

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart ¹  is at hand.

Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; ¹  once in the year ²  he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.” ³ 

Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.

Then the one making the offering ¹  must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it ¹  from the impurities of the Israelites.