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Was the altar allowed to have steps leading up to it?

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The LORD said to Moses in Ex 20:

24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you. … 26 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.
While the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, the altar wasn't high.

Centuries later (New Living Translation) 2 Chronicles 4:

1 Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.
The altar in Solomon's temple was high above ground. There was a ramp or steps leading up to it.

More centuries later, Ezekiel described in 43:

17 The upper ledge also is square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide. All around the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a rim of half a cubit. The steps of the altar face east.”
Was the altar allowed to have steps leading up to it?

I think so. The important point was that the priest's nakedness would not be exposed on the altar.
 

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The LORD said to Moses in Ex 20:


While the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, the altar wasn't high.

Centuries later (New Living Translation) 2 Chronicles 4:


The altar in Solomon's temple was high above ground. There was a ramp or steps leading up to it.

More centuries later, Ezekiel described in 43:


Was the altar allowed to have steps leading up to it?

I think so. The important point was that the priest's nakedness would not be exposed on the altar.
If the Bible was set in 2024, the altar would use escalators, cos we must elevate our faith in Jesus every day. :)
 
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