You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a gold molding for the rim all around.

And you shall overlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.

And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Jehovah; and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.

Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.

So He brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing down to the sun toward the east.

Then he went to the gate which faced east; and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one rod wide, and the other threshold was one rod wide.

The doorway for the middle level was on the right side of the house. They went up by a winding staircase to the middle level, and from the middle to the third.

Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to Jehovah their God.