Ezekiel
Chapter Forty-Three
1 Afterward he brought
me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east.
2 And, 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.
3 And 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 upon my face.
4 And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east.
5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold,
the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
6 And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
7 And he said unto 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 for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name,
neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of
their kings in their high places;
8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside
my door-post, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have
defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: wherefore
I have consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings,
far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10 Thou, 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.
11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the
form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the
entrances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof,
and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; and write it in their sight;
that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and
do them.
12 This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit
thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
13 And 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 the
border thereof by the edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the
base of the altar.
14 And from the bottom upon 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.
15 And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward
there shall be four horns.
16 And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square
in the four sides thereof.
17 And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four
sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom
thereof shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof shall look toward
the east.
18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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.
19 Thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok,
who are near unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord Jehovah, a young bullock
for a sin-offering.
20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of
it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the border round about: thus
shalt thou cleanse it and make atonement for it.
21 Thou shalt also take the bullock of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt
in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin-offering;
and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock
without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
24 And thou shalt bring them near before Jehovah, and the priests shall cast
salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.
25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall
also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall
they consecrate it.
27 And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the eighth
day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar,
and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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