Yechezkel, starting at chapter 40
{40:1} In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the
beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the
fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the
hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there. {40:2} In the
visions of God brought he me into Eretz-Yisra'el, and set me down on a
very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the
south. {40:3} He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in
his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. {40:4} The
man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your
ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the
intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all
that you see to the house of Yisra'el. {40:5} Behold, a wall on the
outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring
reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he
measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one
reed. {40:6} Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and
went up the steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate,
one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. {40:7} Every
lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between
the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch
of the gate toward the house was one reed. {40:8} He measured also the
porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. {40:9} Then measured he
the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it, two cubits;
and the porch of the gate was toward the house. {40:10} The lodges of
the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side;
they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this
side and on that side. {40:11} He measured the breadth of the opening
of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
{40:12} and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and
a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this
side, and six cubits on that side. {40:13} He measured the gate from
the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of
twenty-five cubits; door against door. {40:14} He made also posts,
sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, round about the
gate. {40:15} [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the
forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. {40:16}
There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the
gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round
about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees. {40:17} Then brought
he me into the outer court; and, behold, there were chambers and a
pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were on the
pavement. {40:18} The pavement was by the side of the gates,
answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
{40:19} Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower
gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits,
[both] on the east and on the north. {40:20} The gate of the outer
court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured the length of it
and the breadth of it. {40:21} The lodges of it were three on this
side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it
were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty
cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. {40:22} The windows of it,
and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure
of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it
by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them. {40:23} There
was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on
the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one
hundred cubits. {40:24} He led me toward the south; and, behold, a
gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches
of it according to these measures. {40:25} There were windows in it
and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length
was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. {40:26} There
were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before
them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that
side, on the posts of it. {40:27} There was a gate to the inner court
toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a
hundred cubits. {40:28} Then he brought me to the inner court by the
south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these
measures; {40:29} and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the
arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in
it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and
twenty-five cubits broad. {40:30} There were arches round about,
twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad. {40:31} The arches of
it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of
it: and the ascent to it had eight steps. {40:32} He brought me into
the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to
these measures; {40:33} and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and
the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows
therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long,
and twenty-five cubits broad. {40:34} The arches of it were toward the
outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and
on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. {40:35} He brought
me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these
measures; {40:36} the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of
it: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. {40:37} The posts of it
were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it,
on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
{40:38} A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates;
there they washed the burnt offering. {40:39} In the porch of the gate
were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill
thereon the burnt offering and the sin-offering and the
trespass-offering. {40:40} On the [one] side outside, as one goes up
to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the
other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.
{40:41} Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the
sacrifices]. {40:42} There were four tables for the burnt offering, of
hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and
one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they
killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice. {40:43} The hooks, a
handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and on the tables
was the flesh of the offering. {40:44} Outside of the inner gate were
chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of
the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the
side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. {40:45} He
said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for
the [1>]Kohanim[<1], the keepers of the charge of the house; {40:46}
and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
[2>]Kohanim[<2], the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the
sons of Tzadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to the LORD
to minister to him. {40:47} He measured the court, one hundred cubits
long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before
the house. {40:48} Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and
measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five
cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on
this side, and three cubits on that side. {40:49} The length of the
porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the
steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the
posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
{41:1} He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six
cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
which was the breadth of the tent. {41:2} The breadth of the entrance
was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the
one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the
length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. {41:3}
Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two
cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance,
seven cubits. {41:4} He measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and
the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This
is the most holy place. {41:5} Then he measured the wall of the house,
six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round
about the house on every side. {41:6} The side-chambers were in three
stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into
the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round
about, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the
wall of the house. {41:7} The side-chambers were broader as they
encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the
house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the
breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the
lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber]. {41:8} I saw
also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of
the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. {41:9} The
thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the
outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the
side-chambers that belonged to the house. {41:10} Between the chambers
was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
{41:11} The doors of the side-chambers were toward [the place] that
was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the
south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits
round about. {41:12} The building that was before the separate place
at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of
the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length of it
ninety cubits. {41:13} So he measured the house, one hundred cubits
long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it,
one hundred cubits long; {41:14} also the breadth of the face of the
house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
{41:15} He measured the length of the building before the separate
place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it on the one
side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple,
and the porches of the court; {41:16} the thresholds, and the closed
windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over
against the threshold, with wood ceilings round about, and [from] the
ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), {41:17} to
[the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and
by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure. {41:18} It
was made with Keruvim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between
Keruv and Keruv, and every Keruv had two faces; {41:19} so that there
was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the
face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was
it] made through all the house round about: {41:20} from the ground to
above the door were Keruvim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of
the temple. {41:21} As for the temple, the door-posts were squared;
and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as
the appearance [of the temple]. {41:22} The altar was of wood, three
cubits high, and the length of it two cubits; and the corners of it,
and the length of it, and the walls of it, were of wood: and he said
to me, This is the table that is before the LORD. {41:23} The temple
and the sanctuary had two doors. {41:24} The doors had two leaves
[apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two
leaves for the other. {41:25} There were made on them, on the doors of
the temple, Keruvim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls;
and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
{41:26} There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and
on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the
side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
{42:1} Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward
the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against
the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the
north. {42:2} Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north
door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. {42:3} Over against the twenty
[cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the
pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against
gallery in the third story. {42:4} Before the chambers was a walk of
ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were
toward the north. {42:5} Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the
galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the
middle, in the building. {42:6} For they were in three stories, and
they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the
uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the
ground. {42:7} The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers,
toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty
cubits. {42:8} For the length of the chambers that were in the outer
court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one
hundred cubits. {42:9} From under these chambers was the entry on the
east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. {42:10} In the
thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the
separate place, and before the building, there were chambers. {42:11}
The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the
chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was
their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their
fashions, and according to their doors. {42:12} According to the doors
of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of
the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one
enters into them. {42:13} Then said he to me, The north chambers and
the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the
holy chambers, where the [1>]Kohanim[<1] who are near to the LORD
shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy
things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the
trespass-offering; for the place is holy. {42:14} When the
[2>]Kohanim[<2] enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place
into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which
they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other
garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.
{42:15} Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he
brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the
east, and measured it round about. {42:16} He measured on the east
side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring
reed round about. {42:17} He measured on the north side five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed round about. {42:18} He measured on the
south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. {42:19} He
turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed. {42:20} He measured it on the four sides: it had a
wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five
hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that
which was common.
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Footnotes:
[1] {40:45} priests
[2] {40:46} priests
[1] {42:13} priests
[2] {42:14} priests
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