Exo 20:24-26, 24:4, 38:1-7, 40:10, 29, 2Sa 24:18, 2Ch 4:1, Eze 43:13-17 | ESV | STEP | An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings , your sheep and your oxen . In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

Exodus 20:24-26

24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. ^aIn every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and ^bbless you. 25 ^cIf you make me an altar of stone, ^dyou shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. 26 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’

Exodus 24:4

4 And ^eMoses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve ^fpillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 38:1-7

Making the Altar of Burnt Offering

1 ^gHe made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height. 2 He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. 3 And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze. 4 And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down. 5 He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. 6 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. 7 And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow, with boards.

Exodus 40:10

10 You shall also anoint ⁱthe altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, ^jso that the altar may become most holy.

Exodus 40:29

29 ^kAnd he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the ^lgrain offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

2 Samuel 24:18

David Builds an Altar

18 And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of ^mAraunah the Jebusite.”

2 Chronicles 4:1

The Temple’s Furnishings

1 He made ⁿan altar of bronze, twenty cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

Ezekiel 43:13-17

The Altar

13 “These are the measurements of ^pthe altar by cubits (the cubit being ^qa cubit and a handbreadth): ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; a handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters} its base shall be one cubit high ^{▼▼Or its gutter shall be one cubit deep} and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span ^{▼▼A span was about 9 inches or 22 centimeters} around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar: 14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; 15 and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, ^ufour horns. 16 The altar hearth shall be ^vsquare, twelve cubits long by twelve broad. 17 The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. ^wThe steps of the altar shall face east.”