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Ezekiel
| Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate
that looketh toward the east: |
| And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came
from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters:
and the earth shined with his glory. |
| 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. |
| And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the
way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. |
| So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the
inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. |
| And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house;
and the man stood by me. |
| And he said unto me, Son of man, 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 my holy name, shall the
house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their
whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. |
| In their setting of their threshold by my
thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and
them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that
they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. |
| Now let them put away their whoredom, and the
carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of
them for ever. |
| 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. |
| And if they be ashamed of all that they have done,
show them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings
out thereof, and the comings in 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. |
| 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. |
| And these are the measures of the altar after the
cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall
be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge
thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place
of the altar. |
| And from the bottom upon the ground even to the
lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from
the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and
the breadth one cubit. |
| So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the
altar and upward shall be four horns. |
| And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve
broad, square in the four squares thereof. |
| And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and
fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it
shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about;
and his stairs shall look toward the east. |
| And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith 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. |
| And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that
be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me,
saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. |
| And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it
on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon
the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. |
| Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin
offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house,
without the sanctuary. |
| And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the
altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock. |
| 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. |
| And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the
priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a
burnt offering unto the LORD. |
| 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. |
| Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it;
and they shall consecrate themselves. |
| And when these days are expired, it shall be, that
upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt
offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept
you, saith the Lord GOD. |
| Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the
outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. |
| Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut,
it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the
LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be
shut. |
| It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it
to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of
that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. |
| Then brought he me 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 upon my face. |
| And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well,
and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto
thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the
laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every
going forth of the sanctuary. |
| And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it
suffice you of all your abominations, |
| In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my
sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat
and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your
abominations. |
| And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things:
but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised
in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of
any stranger that is among the children of Israel. |
| And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when
Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols;
they shall even bear their iniquity. |
| Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having
charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they
shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they
shall stand before them to minister unto them. |
| Because they ministered unto them before their
idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they
shall bear their iniquity. |
| And they shall not come near unto me, to do the
office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed. |
| But I will make them keepers of the charge of the
house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done
therein. |
| But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that
kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray
from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall
stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord
GOD: |
| They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall
come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my
charge. |
| And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in
at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen
garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the
gates of the inner court, and within. |
| They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and
shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird
themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. |
| And when they go forth into the utter court, even
into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments
wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they
shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with
their garments. |
| Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer
their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. |
| Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court. |
| Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor
her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the
house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. |
| And they shall teach my people the difference
between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the
unclean and the clean. |
| And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and
they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my
laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my
sabbaths. |
| And they shall come at no dead person to defile
themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter,
for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile
themselves. |
| And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him
seven days. |
| And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary,
unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his
sin offering, saith the Lord GOD. |
| And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am
their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am
their possession. |
| They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin
offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel
shall be theirs. |
| And the first of all the firstfruits of all things,
and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the
priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough,
that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. |
| The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead
of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. |
| Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion
of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand
reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all
the borders thereof round about. |
| Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five
hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and
fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. |
| And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of
five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it
shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. |
| The holy portion of the land shall be for the
priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to
minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an
holy place for the sanctuary. |
| And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the
ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the
house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers. |
| And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the
oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. |
| And a portion shall be for the prince on the one
side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of
the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and
before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from
the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the
portions, from the west border unto the east border. |
| In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and
my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land
shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O
princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and
justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD. |
| Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a
just bath. |
| The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that
the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth
part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. |
| And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty
shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. |
| This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth
part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part
of an ephah of an homer of barley: |
| Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye
shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer
of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: |
| And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred,
out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt
offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them,
saith the Lord GOD. |
| All the people of the land shall give this oblation
for the prince in Israel. |
| And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and
in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house
of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and
the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for
the house of Israel. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the
first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish,
and cleanse the sanctuary: |
| And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four
corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of
the inner court. |
| And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month
for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye
reconcile the house. |
| In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the
month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened
bread shall be eaten. |
| And upon that day shall the prince prepare for
himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. |
| And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt
offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish
daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. |
| And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for
a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. |
| In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the
month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to
the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the
meat offering, and according to the oil. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court
that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on
the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall
be opened. |
| And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch
of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the
priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he
shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but
the gate shall not be shut until the evening. |
| Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the
door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons. |
| And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer
unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and
a ram without blemish. |
| And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram,
and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an
hin of oil to an ephah. |
| And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young
bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without
blemish. |
| And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand
shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. |
| And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by
the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way
thereof. |
| But when the people of the land shall come before
the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the
north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he
that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of
the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he
came in, but shall go forth over against it. |
| And the prince in the midst of them, when they go
in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. |
| And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat
offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to
the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. |
| Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt
offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then
open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his
burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day:
then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the
gate. |
| Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the
LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it
every morning. |
| And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every
morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of
oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a
perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. |
| Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat
offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift
unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it
shall be their possession by inheritance. |
| But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of
his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it
shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for
them. |
| Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but
he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my
people be not scattered every man from his possession. |
| After he brought me through the entry, which was at
the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which
looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides
westward. |
| Then said he unto me, This is the place where the
priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where
they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the
utter court, to sanctify the people. |
| Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and
caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in
every corner of the court there was a court. |
| In the four corners of the court there were courts
joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of
one measure. |
| And there was a row of building round about in them,
round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the
rows round about. |
| Then said he unto me, These are the places of them
that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of
the people. |
| Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the
house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the
house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east,
and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at
the south side of the altar. |
| Then brought he me out of the way of the gate
northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the
way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the
right side. |
| And when the man that had the line in his hand went
forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through
the waters; the waters were to the ankles. |
| Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through
the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand,
and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. |
| Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river
that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim
in, a river that could not be passed over. |
| And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen
this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the
river. |
| Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the
river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. |
| Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward
the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea:
which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. |
| And it shall come to pass, that every thing that
liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live:
and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters
shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live
whither the river cometh. |
| And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall
stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to
spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the
fish of the great sea, exceeding many. |
| But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof
shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. |
| And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side
and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not
fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth
new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out
of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf
thereof for medicine. |
| Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border,
whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. |
| And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another:
concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers:
and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. |
| And this shall be the border of the land toward the
north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; |
| Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the
border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by
the coast of Hauran. |
| And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the
border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath.
And this is the north side. |
| And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and
from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan,
from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side. |
| And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the
waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the
south side southward. |
| The west side also shall be the great sea from the
border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. |
| So shall ye divide this land unto you according to
the tribes of Israel. |
| And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it
by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn
among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto
you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have
inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. |
| And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the
stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the
Lord GOD. |
| Now these are the names of the tribes. From the
north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,
Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for
these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. |
| And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto
the west side, a portion for Asher. |
| And by the border of Asher, from the east side even
unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali. |
| And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side
unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh. |
| And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side
unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim. |
| And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side
even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. |
| And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto
the west side, a portion for Judah. |
| And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto
the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and
twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other
parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be
in the midst of it. |
| The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall
be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in
breadth. |
| And for them, even for the priests, shall be this
holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and
toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten
thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in
length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof. |
| It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of
the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when
the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. |
| And this oblation of the land that is offered shall
be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. |
| And over against the border of the priests the
Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand
in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the
breadth ten thousand. |
| And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor
alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD. |
| And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth
over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for
the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the
midst thereof. |
| And these shall be the measures thereof; the north
side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand
and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred,
and the west side four thousand and five hundred. |
| And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the
north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty,
and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two
hundred and fifty. |
| And the residue in length over against the oblation
of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand
westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion;
and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the
city. |
| And they that serve the city shall serve it out of
all the tribes of Israel. |
| All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand
by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation
foursquare, with the possession of the city. |
| And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one
side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the
city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward
the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand
toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it
shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in
the midst thereof. |
| Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and
from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the
prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall
be for the prince. |
| As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side
unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion. |
| And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side
unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion. |
| And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto
the west side, Issachar a portion. |
| And by the border of Issachar, from the east side
unto the west side, Zebulun a portion. |
| And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side
unto the west side, Gad a portion. |
| And by the border of Gad, at the south side
southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife
in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea. |
| This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto
the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions,
saith the Lord GOD. |
| And these are the goings out of the city on the
north side, four thousand and five hundred measures. |
| And the gates of the city shall be after the names
of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one
gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. |
| And at the east side four thousand and five hundred:
and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate
of Dan. |
| And at the south side four thousand and five hundred
measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one
gate of Zebulun. |
| At the west side four thousand and five hundred,
with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of
Naphtali. |
| It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and
the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there. |
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