The ornaments CHAP. XLI. of the temple. 42. And the four tables were of hewn jured the post of the door, two cubits stone for the burnt-ollering, of a cubit and the door, six cubits; and the and a half long, and a cubit and a half breadth of the door seven cubits. broad, and one cubit high; whereupon 4 So he measured the length therealso they laid the instruments whereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, with they elew the burnt-offering and twenty cubits, before the temple: and the sacrifice. he said unto me, This is the most ho 43 And within were hooks, a hand|ly place. broad, fastened round about: and up- 5 After, he measured the wall of the on the tables was the flesh of the of-|house, six cubits; and the breadth of fering. every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6 And the side-chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house. 44 T And without the inner gate were the chambers of 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. 45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. 45. And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him. 7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side. chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. 8 I saw also the height of the house 47. So he measured the court, a hun-round about; the foundations of the bred cubits long, and a hundred cu-side-chambers trere a full reed of six flits broad, foursquare; and the altar great cubits. that was before the house. as the place of the side-chambers that were within. 9 The thickness of the wall, which 48 ¶ And he brought ine to the porch was for the side-chamber without, was of the house, and measured caen post|five cubits; and that which was left 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. 10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 19 The length of the porch teas 11 And the doors of the side-char twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven |bers were toward the place that was cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that Bide. CHAP. XLI. left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits romid about. 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward AFTERWARD he brought me to the west, was seventy, cubits broad; 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 tabernacle. and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, a bun dred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and 14 Also the breadth of the face of the five cubits on the other side: and he house, and of the separate place tomeasured the length thereof, forty cu|ward the east, a hundred cubits. bits; and the breadth twenty cubits. 15 And he measured the length of 2 Then went he inward, and meas.[the building over against the erparate The chambers EZEKIEL. for the priests. place which was behind it, and the north: and he brought me into the galleries thereof on the one side and chamber that was over against the on the other side, a hundred cubits, separate place, and which was before with the inner temple, and the porches the building toward the north. of the court; 2 Before, the length of a hundred 16 The door posts, and the narrow cubits was the north door, and the windows, and the galleries round breadth was fifty cubits. about on their three stories, over 3 Over against the twenty cubits against the door, ceiled with wood which were for the inner court, and round about, and from the ground up over against the pavement which was to the windows, and the windows rocre for the outer court, was gallery against covered; gallery in three stories. 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about, within and without, by measure. 18. And it was made with cherubins and palm-trees, so that a palm-tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 19 So that the face of a man was to 4 And before the chambers was n walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. 6 For they were in three stories, but ward the palm-tree on the one side, had not pillars as the pillars of the and the face of a young lion toward courts: therefore the building was the palm tree on the other side: it was straitened more than the lowest and made through all the house round the middlemost from the ground, 7 And the wall that was without 20 From the ground unto above the over against the chambers, toward the door were cherubims aud palin-trees outer court on the forepart of the made, and on the wall of the temple. chambers, the length thereof was fifty about. 21 The posts of the temple vere cubits. squared, and the face of the sanctuary; 8 For the length of the chambers, the appearance of the one as the ap-that were in the outer court was fifty pearance of the other. cubits and, lo, before the temple were 22 The altar of wood was three cu-a hundred cubits. bits high, and the length thereof two 9 And from under these chambers cubits; and the corners thereof, and was the entry on the east side, as one the length thereof, and the walls there-goeth into them from the outer court. of, were of wood; and he said unto 10 The chambers were in the thick me, This is the table that is before the mess of the wall of the court toward Lonn. the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building. 11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door,and two leaves for the other door. 25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm-trees, like as ivere made 12 And according to the doors of the upon the walls; and there were thick chambers that were toward the south planks upon the face of the porch was a door in the head of the way, without. even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 26 And there were narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side,on the sides of the porch,| 13 ¶ Then said he unto me, The and upon the side-chambers of the north chambers and the south chamhouse, and thick planks. bers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LonD shall eat the most holy thinge : CHAP. XLII. CHAP. XLIII. God's giory returneth into the tempie. there shall they lay the most holy out of the house; and the man stood things, and the meat-offering, and the by me. sin-ollering, and the trespass-ollering; 7 T And he said unto me, Son of for the place is holy. man, the place of my throne, and the 14 When the priests enter therein, place of the soles of iny feet, where 1 then shall they not go out of the holy will dwell in the midst of the children place into the outer court, but there of Israel for ever, and my holy name, they shall lay their garments wherein shall the house of Israel no more dethey minister; for they are boly; and file, neither they, nor their kings, by shall put on other garments, and shall their whoredom, nor by the carcases approach to those things which are of their kings in their high places. for the people. 8 In their setting of their threshold 15 Now when he had made an end of by my thresholds, and their posts by measuring the inner house, he brought my posts, and the wall between me me forth toward the gate whose pros-and them, they have even defiled my pect is toward the cust, aud measured holy name by their abominations that it round about. they have committed; wherefore 1 16 He measured the east side with have consumed them in mine anger. the measuring reed, five hundred 9 Now let them put away their reeds, with the measuring reed round whoredom, and the carcases of their about. kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring rced round about. 10 T Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they 18 He measured the south side, five may be ashamed of their iniquities: hundred reeds, with the measuring and let them measure the pattern. reed. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that 19 T He turned about to the west they have done, show them the form side, and measured five hundred reeds of the house, and the fashion thereof, with the measuring reed. and the goings out thereof, and the 20 He measured it by the four sides: [comings in thereof, and all the forms it had a wall round about, five bun-thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, dred reeds long, and five hundred and all the forms thereof, and all the broad, to make a separation between laws thereof; and write it in their the sanctuary and the profane place. sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. CHAP. XLIII. AFTERWARD he brought me to 12 This is the law of the house; Up. the gate, even the gate that look-on the top of the mountain the whole eth toward the east: limit thereof round about shall be 2 And, behold, the glory of the God most holy. Behold, this is the law of of Israel came from the way of the the house. east and his voice was like a noise 13 ↑ And these are the measures of of many waters; and the earth shined the altar after the cubits: The cubit with his glory. is a cubit and a hand-breadth: even 3 And it was according to the ap-the bottom shall be a cubit, and the pearance of the vision which I saw,breadth a cubit,and the border thereof even according to the vision that by the edge thereof round about shall saw when I came to destroy the city: be a span: and this shall be the bigher and the visions were like the vision place of the altar. that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall 4 And the glory of the LORD came be two cubits; and the breadth one into the house by the way of the gate cubit; and from the lesser settle even whose prospect is toward the east. to the greater settle shall be four cu5 So the spirit took me up, and bits, and the breadth one cubit. brought me into the inner court; and,] 15 So the altar shall be four cubits: behold, the glory of the Lopu filled and from the altar and upward shall the house. 6. And 1 keard him speaking unto me be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cu Ordinances of the altar. EZEKIEL. The priests reproved. bits long, twelve broad, square in the tuary which looketh toward the east, four squares thereof.. and it was shut. 17 And the settle shall be fourteen 2 Then said the Lond unto me,This cubits long and fourteen broad in the gate shall be shut, it shall not be four squares thereof; and the border opened, and no man shall enter in by about it shall be half a cubit: and the it; because the Lord,the God of Isbottom thereof shall be a cubit about;|rael, hath entered in by it, therefore it and his stairs shall look toward the east. shall be shut. 18 T And he said unto me, Son of 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These shail sit in it to eat bread before the are the ordinances of the altar in the] Lond; he shall enter by the way of day when they shall make it, to offer the porch of that gate, and shall go burnt offerings thereon, and to sprin-out by the way of the same. kie nood thereon. 4 T Then brought he me the way of 19 And thou shalt give to the priests the north gate before the house: and the Levites that be of the seed of Za-I looked, and, behold, the glory of the dok, which approach unto me, to min- LoRo filled the house of the Lond; ister unto me, saith the Lord God, a and 1 fell upon my face. young bullock for a sin-offering. 5 And the Lond said unto me, Son 20 And thou shalt take of the blood of man, mark well, and behold with thereof, and put it on the four horns thine eyes, and bear with thine ears, of it, and on the four corners of the all that I say unto thee concerning all Bettle, and upon the border round the ordinances of the house of the about: thus shalt thou cleanse and LORD, and all the laws thereof; and purge it. mark well the entering in of the 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also house, with every going forth of the of the sin-offering, and he shall bura sanctuary. it in the appointed place of the house, 6 And thou shalt sayto the rebellious, without the sanctuary. even to the house of Israel,Thus saithi 22. And on the second day thou shalt|the LORD God,O ye house of Israel,let offer a kid of the goats without blemit suffice you of all your abominations, ich for a sin-offering; and they shall 7 In that ye have brought inữ my cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse sanctuary strangers,uncircumcised in it with the bullock. heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to 23 When thou hast made an end of be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young my house, when ye offer my bread, bullock without blemish, and a rain the fat and the blood, and they have out of the flock without blemish. broken iny covenant, because of all your abominations. 24 And thou shalt offer them before the Loan, and the priests shall cast ealt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 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 purge the altar, and purify it; and they shall Consecrate themselves. 27 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 1 will accept you, saith the Lord God. CHAP. XLIV. 8 And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keep. ers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9 T 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. 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when 1srael went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. 11 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 burat-offering and the sacrifice for the people,and they shall stand before them to minis Tofthe gate of the outward suneter unto them. Ordinances for CHAP. XLV. the priests. 12 Because they ministered unto them, 23 And they shall teach my people before their idols, and caused the house the difference between the holy and of Israel to fall into iniquity; there-profane, and cause them to discern before have I lifted up my hand against tween the unclean and the clean. thero, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 24 And in controversy they shal! 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 13 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;|they shall ballow my sabbaths. but they shall bear their shame, and their abommations which they have committed. 14 But I will nake them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. 15 T 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: 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 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, while they minister m the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen bonnets up ou their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins: they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 25 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. 26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. 27 And in the day that he goeth into the sacr'uary, unto the inner court,to minister in the sanctuary, he sball offer his aw-offering, saith the Lord Goo 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: 1am their inheritance, and ye shall give them no possesion in Israel: I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meat-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespassoffering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30. And the first of all the first-fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, sball 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 thy house. 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. CHAP. XLV. 19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their TOREOVER, when ye shall divide garments wherein they ministered, by lot the land for inheritance, and lay them in the holy chambers, ye shall offer an oblation unto the and they shall put on other garments; Lond, a boly portion of the laud: the and they shall not sanctify the people length shall be the length of five and with their garments. twenty thousand reeds,and the breadth 20 Neither shall they shave their shall be ten thousand. This shall be heads, nor suffer their locks to grow holy in all the porders thereof round long; they shall only poll their bends. about. court. 21 Neither shall any priest drink] 2 Of this there shall be for the sancwine, when they enter into the inner tuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof 22 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. 3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thou |