Bible Verses About Altar: Mosaic commandments prescribing the construction of

For me you need make only an altar of earth; on it you will sacrifice your burnt offerings, peace offerings, sheep, goats and cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you.

If you do make me an altar of stone, you are not to build it of cut stones; for if you use a tool on it, you profane it.

Likewise, you are not to use steps to go up to my altar; so that you won't be indecently uncovered.'"

There you are to erect an altar to ADONAI your God, an altar made of stones. You are not to use any iron tool on them,

but are to build the altar of ADONAI your God of uncut stones; and you are to offer burnt offerings on it to ADONAI your God.

Also you are to sacrifice peace offerings, eat there and be joyful in the presence of ADONAI your God.

Then Y'hoshua built an altar to ADONAI, the God of Isra'el, on Mount 'Eival,

as Moshe the servant of ADONAI had ordered the people of Isra'el to do (this is written in the book of the Torah of Moshe), an altar of uncut stones that no one had touched with an iron tool. On it they offered burnt offerings to ADONAI and sacrificed peace offerings.

These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (a cubit here is defined as a normal cubit [eighteen inches] plus a handbreadth [three inches]): the base, one cubit [twenty-one inches] deep and one cubit wide; with the molding surrounding it at its rim about a hand-span [nine inches] in width. The height of the altar is thus: