Ezekiel 43:17

"Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon."

"Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. which looketh...: Heb. whose face was the way toward the east"

"And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east."

"Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God."

"And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about."

"And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about."

"The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third."

"And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed."