“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 a noise 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 the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect [is] toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and
brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD
filled the house. 6 And I heard [him] speaking unto me out of the house;
and the man stood by me.”
“7 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. 8 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. 9 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. 10 Thou son of man, shew 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, shew 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. 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 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. 14 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. 15 So the altar [shall be] four
cubits; and from the altar and upward [shall be] four horns. 16 And the
altar [shall be] twelve [cubits] long, twelve broad, square in the four
squares thereof. 17 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. 18 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. 19 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. 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 settle, and upon
the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. 21 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. 22 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. 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 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. 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 I will accept you, saith the
Lord GOD.” (Ezekiel 43:1-27 AV)
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