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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 43
{43:1} Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks
toward the east. {43:2} Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many
waters; and the earth shined with his glory. {43:3} It was according
to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the
vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions
were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my
face. {43:4} The glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of
the gate whose prospect is toward the east. {43:5} The Spirit took me
up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the
LORD filled the house. {43:6} I heard one speaking to me out of the
house; and a man stood by me. {43:7} He said to me, Son of man, [this
is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet,
where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The
house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor
their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their
kings [in] their high places; {43:8} in their setting of their
threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and
there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my
holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I
have consumed them in my anger. {43:9} Now let them put away their
prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I
will dwell in their midst forever. {43:10} You, son of man, show the
house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their
iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. {43:11} If they be
ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the
house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its
forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws;
and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it,
and all its ordinances, and do them. {43:12} This is the law of the
house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be
most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. {43:13} These are the
measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a
handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit,
and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of
the altar. {43:14} From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser
ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a
cubit. {43:15} The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the
altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. {43:16} The altar
hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the
four sides of it. {43:17} The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by
fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall
be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps
shall look toward the east. {43:18} He said to me, Son of man, thus
says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day
when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to
sprinkle blood thereon. {43:19} You shall give to the priests the
Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister
to me, says the Lord GOD, a young bull for a sin offering. {43:20} You
shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on
the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you
shall cleanse it and make atonement for it. {43:21} You shall also
take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the
appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. {43:22} On the
second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin
offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with
the bull. {43:23} When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer
a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without
blemish. {43:24} You shall bring them near to the LORD, and the
priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a
burnt offering to the LORD. {43:25} Seven days you shall prepare every
day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull,
and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. {43:26} Seven days shall
they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they
consecrate it. {43:27} When they have accomplished the days, it shall
be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your
burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will
accept you, says the Lord GOD.
{44:1} Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the
sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut. {44:2} The
LORD said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened,
neither shall any man enter in by it; for the LORD, the God of Israel,
has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. {44:3} As for the
prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before the LORD;
he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out
by the way of the same. {44:4} Then he brought me by the way of the
north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of
the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell on my face. {44:5}
The LORD said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes,
and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the
ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all its laws; and mark well
the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. {44:6}
You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says
the Lord GOD: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your
abominations, {44:7} in that you have brought in foreigners,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my
sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the
fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all
your abominations. {44:8} You have not performed the duty of my holy
things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for
yourselves. {44:9} Thus says the Lord GOD, No foreigner, uncircumcised
in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of
any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. {44:10} But the
Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray
from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. {44:11} Yet
they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates
of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt
offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before
them to minister to them. {44:12} Because they ministered to them
before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the
house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says
the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. {44:13} They shall
not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to
come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy;
but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they
have committed. {44:14} Yet will I make them performers of the duty of
the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done
therein. {44:15} But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who
performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went
astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they
shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the
Lord GOD: {44:16} they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall
come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my
instruction. {44:17} It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates
of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no
wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner
court, and within. {44:18} They shall have linen tires on their heads,
and shall have linen breeches on their waists; they shall not clothe
themselves with [anything that causes] sweat. {44:19} When they go
forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people,
they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them
in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not
sanctify the people with their garments. {44:20} Neither shall they
shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only
cut off the hair of their heads. {44:21} Neither shall any of the
priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. {44:22}
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put
away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel,
or a widow who is the widow of a priest. {44:23} They shall teach my
people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them
to discern between the unclean and the clean. {44:24} In a controversy
they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge
it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed
feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy. {44:25} They shall go in
to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother,
or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no
husband, they may defile themselves. {44:26} After he is cleansed,
they shall reckon to him seven days. {44:27} In the day that he goes
into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the
sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord GOD. {44:28}
They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall
give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. {44:29} They
shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. {44:30}
The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering
of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you
shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a
blessing to rest on your house. {44:31} The priests shall not eat of
anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
{45:1} Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the LORD, a holy portion
of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand
[reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in
all its border all around. {45:2} Of this there shall be for the holy
place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square
all around; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around. {45:3} Of
this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a
breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is
most holy. {45:4} It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for
the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister
to the LORD; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy
place for the sanctuary. {45:5} Twenty-five thousand in length, and
ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the
house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty rooms. {45:6} You
shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and
twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy
portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. {45:7} [Whatever
is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other side of
the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the
holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west
side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable
to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.
{45:8} In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and
my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the
land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. {45:9} Thus
says the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove
violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness;
dispossessing my people, says the Lord GOD. {45:10} You shall have
just balances, and a just [1>]efah,[<1] and a just bath. {45:11} The
efah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain
the tenth part of a [2>]homer[<2], and the efah the tenth part of a
homer: its measure shall be after the homer. {45:12} The shekel shall
be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen
shekels shall be your mina. {45:13} This is the offering that you
shall offer: the sixth part of an efah from a homer of wheat; and you
shall give the sixth part of an efah from a homer of barley; {45:14}
and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a
bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for ten
baths are a homer;) {45:15} and one lamb of the flock, out of two
hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel--for a meal
offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make
atonement for them, says the Lord GOD. {45:16} All the people of the
land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel. {45:17} It
shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal
offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new
moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house
of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering,
and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for
the house of Israel. {45:18} Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first
[month], in the first [day] of the month, you shall take a young bull
without blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. {45:19} The
priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the
door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the
altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. {45:20} So you
shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone who errs, and
for him who is simple: so you shall make atonement for the house.
{45:21} In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, you
shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall
be eaten. {45:22} On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and
for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. {45:23} The
seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD,
seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a
male goat daily for a sin offering. {45:24} He shall prepare a meal
offering, an efah for a bull, and an efah for a ram, and a hin of oil
to an efah. {45:25} In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of
the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days;
according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and
according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.
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Footnotes:
[1] {45:10} 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
[2] {45:11} 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
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