Discovery BoxEzekiel 43:14
Context43:14 From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet, 1 and the width 1¾ feet; 2 and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet, 3 and the width 1¾ feet;
Ezekiel 43:20
Context43:20 You will take some of its blood, and place it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around; you will cleanse it and make atonement for it. 4
Leviticus 16:18-20
Context16:18 “Then 5 he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take 6 some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar. 16:19 Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it 7 from the impurities of the Israelites.
16:20 “When he has finished purifying the holy place, 8 the Meeting Tent, and the altar, he is to present the live goat.
[43:14] 1 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
[43:14] 2 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm; the phrase occurs again later in this verse).
[43:14] 3 tn Heb “four cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters; the phrase also occurs in the next verse).
[43:20] 4 sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.
[16:18] 5 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates the sequence of events here.
[16:18] 6 tn Heb “And he shall take.”
[16:19] 7 tn Heb “and he shall purify it and he shall consecrate it.”
[16:20] 8 tn Heb “And he shall finish from atoning the holy place.” In this case, the “holy place” etc. are direct objects of the verb “to atone” (cf. v. 33a below). In this case, therefore, the basic meaning of the verb (i.e., “to purge” or “wipe clean”) comes to the forefront. When the prepositions עַל (’al) or בֲּעַד (ba’ad) occur with the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper) the purging is almost always being done “for” or “on behalf of” priests or people (see the note on Lev 1:4 as well as R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:698, the literature cited there, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 110, for more details).
