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Title: Old Testament, The
Book: Ezekiel
Author: Various
Date: 1885
Chapter 43
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 the sound 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 Jehovah came into the house by the
way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. And the Spirit took me up,
and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled
the house.
And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
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 ^5 in their high places; 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. 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.
[Footnote 5: Or, according to another reading, in their death]
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 ^1 pattern. 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. 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.
[Footnote 1: Or, sum]
And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit
and a handbreadth): the ^2 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 ^3 base of the altar. And from the bottom ^4 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. And the ^5 upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the ^6 altar
hearth and upward there shall be four horns. And the altar hearth shall be
twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof. 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.
[Footnote 2: Or, hollow Heb. bosom.]
[Footnote 3: Heb. back.]
[Footnote 4: Or, at]
[Footnote 5: Heb. Harel.]
[Footnote 6: Heb. Ariel. See Is. 29. 1.]
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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 make atonement for the
altar and purify it; so shall they ^7 consecrate it. 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.
[Footnote 7: Heb. fill the hands thereof. See Ex. 29. 24.]