15. This top section, on which the sacrifices were burnt, was also two metres high. The projections on the four corners were higher than the rest of the top.
16. The top of the altar was a square, six metres on each side.
17. The middle section was also a square, seven metres on each side, with a rim at the outside edge 25 centimetres high. (The gutter was fifty centimetres wide.) The steps going up the altar were on the east side.
18. The Sovereign Lord said to me, “Mortal man, listen to what I tell you. When the altar is built, you are to dedicate it by burning sacrifices on it and by sprinkling on it the blood of the animals that were sacrificed.