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Ezekiel

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Chapter 43

¹Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east. ²And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. ³And the vision I saw was like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal, and I fell on my face. ⁴As the glory of the LORD entered the temple by the gate facing east, ⁵the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple. ⁶While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple, ⁷and he said to 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 people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their whoring and by the corpses of their kings at their high places, ⁸by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by all the abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. ⁹Now let them put away their whoring and the corpses of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever. ¹⁰“As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the plan. ¹¹And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them all its ordinances and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its ordinances and do them. ¹²This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple. ¹³“These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit broad, with a rim around its edge of one span. This shall be the height of the altar: ¹⁴from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; ¹⁵and the altar hearth itself, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns. ¹⁶The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad; it shall be square. ¹⁷The ledge also shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, square, with a rim around it half a cubit high, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east.” ¹⁸And he said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected, to offer burnt offerings on it and to throw blood against it, ¹⁹you shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord GOD, a bull from the herd for a sin offering. ²⁰And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and on the rim all around. Thus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it. ²¹You shall take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sacred area. ²²On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull. ²³When you have finished purifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish. ²⁴You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD. ²⁵For seven days you shall provide daily a goat for a sin offering; also a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, shall be provided. ²⁶Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it. ²⁷And when these days are over, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.”