Verse 17

The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:26 : 26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
• Ezek 40:6 : 6 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
• Exod 25:25 : 25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
• Exod 30:3 : 3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
• 1 Kgs 6:8 : 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
• 1 Kgs 18:32 : 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed.
• Neh 9:4 : 4 Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
• Ezek 8:16 : 16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.