026:018 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall;
yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed
at your departure.
026:019 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you
a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited;
when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters
shall cover you;
026:020 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit,
to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower
parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old,
with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited;
and I will set glory in the land of the living:
026:021 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being;
though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again,
says the Lord Yahweh.
027:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
027:002 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
027:003 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea,
who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands,
thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am
perfect in beauty.
027:004 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders
have perfected your beauty.
027:005 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;
they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars;
they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood,
from the islands of Kittim.
027:007 Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail,
that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from
the islands of Elishah was your awning.
027:008 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers:
your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
027:009 The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your
repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their
mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
027:010 Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war:
they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set
forth your comeliness.
027:011 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about,
and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields
on your walls round about; they have perfected your beauty.
027:012 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude
of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead,
they traded for your wares.
027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers;
they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass
for your merchandise.
027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses
and war horses and mules.
027:015 The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many islands were
the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns
of ivory and ebony.
027:016 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of
your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple,
and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers:
they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections,
and honey, and oil, and balm.
027:018 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks,
by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine
of Helbon, and white wool.
027:019 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares:
bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
027:020 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants
of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were
they your merchants.
027:022 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers;
they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices,
and with all precious stones, and gold.
027:023 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur
[and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.
027:024 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings
of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing,
bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
027:025 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise:
and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart
of the seas.
027:026 Your rowers have brought you into great waters:
the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
027:027 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners,
and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers
in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you,
with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall
into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
027:028 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
027:029 All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots
of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall
stand on the land,
027:030 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall
cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads,
they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
027:031 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them
with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness
of soul with bitter mourning.
027:032 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you,
and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre,
like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
027:033 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples;
you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude
of your riches and of your merchandise.
027:034 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths
of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall
in the midst of you.
027:035 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you,
and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled
in their face.
027:036 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become
a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
028:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
028:002 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said,
I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart
as the heart of God--
028:003 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is
hidden from you;
028:004 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches,
and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
028:005 by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased
your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches--
028:006 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set
your heart as the heart of God,
028:007 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible
of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty
of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
028:008 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death
of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
028:009 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you
are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
028:010 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand
of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
028:011 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre,
and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
028:013 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone
adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx,
jasper, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, turquoise, and beryl.
Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you.
In the day that you were created they were prepared.
028:014 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you,
[so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
028:015 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created,
until unrighteousness was found in you.
028:016 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you
with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you
as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you,
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
028:017 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have
corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness:
I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings,
that they may see you.
028:018 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness
of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries;
therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you;
it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all those who see you.
028:019 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you:
you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
028:020 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
028:021 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
028:022 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
028:023 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets;
and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword
on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
028:024 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel,
nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them,
that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am
the Lord Yahweh.
028:025 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house
of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations,
then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to
my servant Jacob.
028:026 They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses,
and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed
judgments on all those who do them despite round about them;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day
of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
029:002 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
029:003 Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am
against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies
in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own,
and I have made it for myself.'
029:004 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish
of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up
out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your
rivers which stick to your scales.
029:005 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all
the fish of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field.
You won't be brought together, nor gathered. I have given
you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds
of the sky.
029:006 All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh,
because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
029:007 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore
all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke,
and paralyzed all of their thighs."
029:008 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring
a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal.
029:009 The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said,
'The river is mine, and I have made it;'
029:010 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation,
from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
029:012 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst
of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among
the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years;
and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries."
029:013 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years will I
gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;
029:014 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them
to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth;
and they shall be there a base kingdom.
029:015 It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more
lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them,
that they shall no more rule over the nations.
029:016 It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them:
and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh."'"
029:017 It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month],
in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying,
029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to
serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald,
and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army,
from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
029:019 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give
the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;
and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil,
and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which
he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
029:021 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel,
and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
030:001 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
030:002 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas
for the day!
030:003 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near;
it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
030:004 A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away
her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
030:005 Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub,
and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall
with them by the sword.
030:006 Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall;
and the pride of her power shall come down:
from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword,
says the Lord Yahweh.
030:007 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that
are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities
that are wasted.
030:008 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt,
and all her helpers are destroyed.
030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships
to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be
anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.
030:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations,
shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw
their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
030:012 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into
the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate,
and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers:
I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
030:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols,
and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis;
and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt:
and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
030:014 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan,
and will execute judgments on No.
030:015 I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt;
and I will cut off the multitude of No.
030:016 I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish,
and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries
in the daytime.
030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword;
and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall
break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power
shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her,
and her daughters shall go into captivity.
030:019 Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
030:020 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month],
in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying,
030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines,
to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.
030:022 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm],
and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall
out of his hand.
030:023 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
them through the countries.
030:024 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put
my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh,
and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a
deadly wounded man.
030:025 I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms
of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh,
when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.
030:026 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them
through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
031:001 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month],
in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying,
031:002 Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:
Whom are you like in your greatness?
031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful
branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature;
and its top was among the thick boughs.
031:004 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow:
the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent
out its channels to all the trees of the field.
031:005 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;
and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long
by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
031:006 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs;
and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring
forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.
031:007 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
for its root was by many waters.
031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir
trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were
not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God
like it in its beauty.
031:009 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,
so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden
of God, envied it.
031:010 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted
in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height;
031:011 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of
the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven
him out for his wickedness.
031:012 Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all
the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth
are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
031:013 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all
the animals of the field shall be on his branches;
031:014 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs,
nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height,
[even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death,
to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children
of men, with those who go down to the pit.
031:015 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to
Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed;
and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees
of the field fainted for him.
031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit;
and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon,
all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts
of the earth.
031:017 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain
by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived
under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
031:018 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees
of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden
to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst
of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
032:001 It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,
in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came
to me, saying,
032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations:
yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth
with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet,
and fouled their rivers.
032:003 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you
with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up
in my net.
032:004 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field,
and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you,
and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
032:005 I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys
with your height.
032:006 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim,
even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
032:007 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make
the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon shall not give its light.
032:008 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you,
and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall
bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries
which you have not known.
032:010 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my
sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment,
every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
032:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon
shall come on you.
032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall;
the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall
bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude
of it shall be destroyed.
032:013 I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters;
neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more,
nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
032:014 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers
to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste,
a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall
strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know
that I am Yahweh.
032:016 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament;
the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt,
and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith,
says the Lord Yahweh.
032:017 It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day]
of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down,
even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower
parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
032:019 Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid
with the uncircumcised.
032:020 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword:
she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst
of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down,
they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
032:022 Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her;
all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
032:023 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit,
and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave;
all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down
uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused
their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their
shame with those who go down to the pit.
032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain
with all her multitude; her graves are round about her;
all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their
terror was caused in the land of the living, and they
have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit:
he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are
round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
032:027 They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of
the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their
weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads,
and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were]
the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
032:028 But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.
032:029 There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their
might are laid with those who are slain by the sword:
they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go
down to the pit.
032:030 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all
the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror
which they caused by their might they are put to shame;
and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword,
and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all
his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,
says the Lord Yahweh.
032:032 For I have put his terror in the land of the living;
and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all
his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
033:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them,
When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land
take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
033:003 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet,
and warn the people;
033:004 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't
take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
shall be on his own head.
033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning;
his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning,
he would have delivered his soul.
033:006 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet,
and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take
any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity,
but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
033:007 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house
of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me.
033:008 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die,
and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way;
that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood
will I require at your hand.
033:009 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it,
and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity,
but you have delivered your soul.
033:010 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak,
saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we
pine away in them; how then can we live?
033:011 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from
his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways;
for why will you die, house of Israel?
033:012 You, son of man, tell the children of your people,
The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day
of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked,
he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from
his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able
to live thereby in the day that he sins.
033:013 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live;
if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity,
none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his
iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
033:014 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die;
if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
033:015 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken
by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity;
he shall surely live, he shall not die.
033:016 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered
against him: he has done that which is lawful and right;
he shall surely live.
033:017 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord
is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
033:018 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity,
he shall even die therein.
033:019 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which
is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
033:020 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
House of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.
033:021 It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the
tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one
who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city
has been struck.
033:022 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening,
before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth,
until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened,
and I was no more mute.
033:023 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
033:024 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of
Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land:
but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
033:025 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with
the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood:
and shall you possess the land?
033:026 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile
everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
033:027 Thus shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live,
surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword;
and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals
to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in
the caves shall die of the pestilence.
033:028 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment;
and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains
of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.
033:029 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made
the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all
their abominations which they have committed.
033:030 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk
of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak
one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come
and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
033:031 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you
as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them;
for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart
goes after their gain.
033:032 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has
a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument;
for they hear your words, but they don't do them.
033:033 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they
know that a prophet has been among them.
034:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves!
Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
034:003 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill
the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
034:004 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed
that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which
was broken, neither have you brought back that which was
driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost;
but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them.
034:005 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd;
and they became food to all the animals of the field,
and were scattered.
034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill:
yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth;
and there was none who searched or sought.
034:007 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
034:008 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became
a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field,
because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds
search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves,
and didn't feed my sheep;
034:009 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
034:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds;
and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them
to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds
feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from
their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
034:011 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I,
will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
034:012 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among
his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep;
and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
034:013 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I
will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses,
and in all the inhabited places of the country.
034:014 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains
of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall
they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they
feed on the mountains of Israel.
034:015 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause
them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back
that which was driven away, and will bind up that which
was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:
but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed
them in justice.
034:017 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge
between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
034:018 Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture,
but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your
pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must
foul the residue with your feet?
034:019 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet,
and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
034:020 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I,
will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
034:021 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all
the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
034:022 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey;
and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
034:023 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall
be their shepherd.
034:024 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince
among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
034:025 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause
evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell
securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
034:026 I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing;
and I will cause the shower to come down in its season;
there shall be showers of blessing.
034:027 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall
yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken
the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand
of those who made slaves of them.
034:028 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall
the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely,
and none shall make them afraid.
034:029 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall
be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear
the shame of the nations any more.
034:030 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them,
and that they, the house of Israel, are my people,
says the Lord Yahweh.
034:031 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,
says the Lord Yahweh.
035:001 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
035:002 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
035:003 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you,
Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you,
and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
035:004 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
035:005 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over
the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time
of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
035:006 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare
you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have
not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
035:007 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation;
and I will cut off from it him who passes through and
him who returns.
035:008 I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills
and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they
fall who are slain with the sword.
035:009 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall
not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
035:010 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries
shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
035:011 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according
to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown
out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known
among them, when I shall judge you.
035:012 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults
which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying,
They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
035:013 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth,
and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
035:014 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices,
I will make you desolate.
035:015 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house
of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you:
you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
036:001 You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say,
You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
036:002 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you,
Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;
036:003 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even
because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up
on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue
of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers,
and the evil report of the people;
036:004 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys,
to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken,
which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations
that are round about;
036:005 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations,
and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves
for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite
of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
036:006 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell
the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to
the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken
in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne
the shame of the nations:
036:007 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying],
Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall
bear their shame.
036:008 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches,
and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at
hand to come.
036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you
shall be tilled and sown;
036:010 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel,
even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste
places shall be built;
036:011 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase
and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your
former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
036:012 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel;
and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance,
and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.
036:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you,
You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver
of your nation;
036:014 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your
nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
036:015 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations,
neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more,
neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more,
says the Lord Yahweh.
036:016 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land,
they defiled it by their way and by their doings:
their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman
in her impurity.
036:018 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they
had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it
with their idols;
036:019 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed
through the countries: according to their way and according
to their doings I judged them.
036:020 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned
my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people
of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.
036:021 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the nations, where they went.
036:022 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel,
but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations,
where you went.
036:023 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among
the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them;
and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh,
when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
036:024 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out
of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
036:025 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols,
will I cleanse you.
036:026 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you a heart of flesh.
036:027 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
036:028 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
036:029 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call
for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
036:030 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase
of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach
of famine among the nations.
036:031 Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that
were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own
sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
036:032 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it
known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways,
house of Israel.
036:033 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from
all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited,
and the waste places shall be built.
036:034 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was
a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
036:035 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like
the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
cities are fortified and inhabited.
036:036 Then the nations that are left round about you shall know
that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted
that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I
will do it.
036:037 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I
be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them:
I will increase them with men like a flock.
036:038 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her
appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with
flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
037:001 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit
of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley;
and it was full of bones.
037:002 He caused me to pass by them round about: and behold,
there were very many in the open valley; and behold,
they were very dry.
037:003 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered,
Lord Yahweh, you know.
037:004 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them,
you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
037:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause
breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
037:006 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you,
and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones
came together, bone to its bone.
037:008 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up,
and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
037:009 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from
the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain,
that they may live.
037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came
into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet,
an exceedingly great army.
037:011 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up,
and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
037:012 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you
to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring
you into the land of Israel.
037:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves,
and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
037:014 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place
you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh,
have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
037:015 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
037:016 You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah,
and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:
037:017 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they
may become one in your hand.
037:018 When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying,
Will you not show us what you mean by these?
037:019 tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take
the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them
with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,
and they shall be one in my hand.
037:020 The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
037:021 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the nations, where they
are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them
into their own land:
037:022 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains
of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they
shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided
into two kingdoms any more at all;
037:023 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
nor with their detestable things, nor with any of
their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their
dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them:
so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
037:024 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances,
and observe my statutes, and do them.
037:025 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant,
in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they,
and their children, and their children's children, forever:
and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall
be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them,
and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst
of them forevermore.
037:027 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
037:028 The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel,
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
038:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
038:002 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog,
the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
038:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you,
Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
038:004 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I
will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen,
all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler
and shield, all of them handling swords;
038:005 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
038:006 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in
the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes;
even many peoples with you.
038:007 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies
who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
038:008 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you
shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword,
that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel,
which have been a continual waste; but it is brought
forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely,
all of them.
038:009 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall
be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes,
and many peoples with you.
038:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day,
that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise
an evil device:
038:011 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;
I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely,
all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates;
038:012 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand
against the waste places that are [now] inhabited,
and against the people who are gathered out of the nations,
who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle
of the earth.
038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all
the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take
the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey?
to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods,
to take great spoil?
038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely,
shall you not know it?
038:015 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts
of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them
riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;
038:016 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud
to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I
will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me,
when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
038:017 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old
time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in
those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?
038:018 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land
of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up
into my nostrils.
038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel;
038:020 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky,
and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who
creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface
of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall,
and every wall shall fall to the ground.
038:021 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,
says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be
against his brother.
038:022 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment
with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on
the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower,
and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
038:023 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make
myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
039:001 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince
of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
039:002 and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will
cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north;
and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel;
039:003 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause
your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
039:004 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all
your hordes, and the peoples who are with you:
I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort,
and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
039:005 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it,
says the Lord Yahweh.
039:006 I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely
in the islands; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
039:007 My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel;
neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more:
and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
039:008 Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh;
this is the day about which I have spoken.
039:009 Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them,
both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows,
and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires
of them seven years;
039:010 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut
down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of
the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them,
and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
039:011 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place
for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on
the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through:
and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude;
and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
039:012 Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them,
that they may cleanse the land.
039:013 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall
be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified,
says the Lord Yahweh.
039:014 They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass
through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury
those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they search.
039:015 Those who pass through the land shall pass through;
and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign
by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley
of Hamon Gog.
039:016 Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they
cleanse the land.
039:017 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to
the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh
and drink blood.
039:018 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood
of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,
of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
039:019 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you
be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
039:020 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots,
with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
039:021 I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations
shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid on them.
039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God,
from that day and forward.
039:023 The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into
captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me,
and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand
of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
039:025 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back
the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house
of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
039:026 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by
which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell
securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;
039:027 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered
them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them
in the sight of many nations.
039:028 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused
them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered
them to their own land; and I will leave none of them
any more there;
039:029 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured
out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning
of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth
year after that the city was struck, in the same day,
the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.
040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,
and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it
were the frame of a city on the south.
040:003 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man,
whose appearance was like the appearance of brass,
with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed;
and he stood in the gate.
040:004 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear
with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall
show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you,
are you brought here: declare all that you see to the
house of Israel.
040:005 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about,
and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long,
of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness
of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
040:006 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went
up the steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate,
one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
040:007 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad;
and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits;
and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward
the house was one reed.
040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits;
and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate
was toward the house.
040:010 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side,
and three on that side; they three were of one measure:
and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
040:011 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits;
and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
040:012 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side],
and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges,
six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
040:013 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to
the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits;
door against door.
040:014 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached]
to the posts, round about the gate.
040:015 [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront
of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
040:016 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts
within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches;
and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post
were palm trees.
040:017 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were
chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about:
thirty chambers were on the pavement.
040:018 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to
the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate
to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits,
[both] on the east and on the north.
040:020 The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north,
he measured the length of it and the breadth of it.
040:021 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side;
and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure
of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits,
and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
040:022 The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees
of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect
is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps;
and the arches of it were before them.
040:023 There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate,
[both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate
to gate one hundred cubits.
040:024 He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south:
and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according
to these measures.
040:025 There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about,
like those windows: the length was fifty cubits,
and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
040:026 There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it
were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side,
and another on that side, on the posts of it.
040:027 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south:
and he measured from gate to gate toward the south
a hundred cubits.
040:028 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate:
and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
040:029 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it,
according to these measures: and there were windows in it
and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long,
and twenty-five cubits broad.
040:030 There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long,
and five cubits broad.
040:031 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
040:032 He brought me into the inner court toward the east:
and he measured the gate according to these measures;
040:033 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it,
according to these measures: and there were windows therein
and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long,
and twenty-five cubits broad.
040:034 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side:
and the ascent to it had eight steps.
040:035 He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according
to these measures;
040:036 the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it:
and there were windows therein round about; the length was
fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
040:037 The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side:
and the ascent to it had eight steps.
040:038 A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates;
there they washed the burnt offering.
040:039 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side,
and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering
and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
040:040 On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate
toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side,
which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.
040:041 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they
killed [the sacrifices].
040:042 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone,
a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad,
and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments
with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
040:043 The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about:
and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
040:044 Outside of the inner gate were chambers for 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.
040:045 He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south,
is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;
040:046 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, who from among the sons of Levi
come near to Yahweh to minister to him.
040:047 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred
cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
040:048 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each
post 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.
040:049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it:
and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side,
and another on that side.
041:001 He brought me to 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 tent.
041:002 The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides
of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five
cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it,
forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
041:003 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance,
two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth
of the entrance, seven cubits.
041:004 He measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and the breadth,
twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me,
This is the most holy place.
041:005 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits;
and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits,
round about the house on every side.
041:006 The side chambers were in three stories, one over another,
and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which
belonged to the house for the side chambers round about,
that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold
in the wall of the house.
041:007 The side chambers were broader as they encompassed [the
house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of
the house went higher and higher round about the house:
therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward;
and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest
by the middle [chamber].
041:008 I saw also that the house had a raised base round about:
the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed
of six great cubits.
041:009 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers,
on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was
the place of the side chambers that belonged to the house.
041:010 Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round
about the house on every side.
041:011 The doors of the side chambers were toward [the place] that was left,
one door toward the north, and another door toward the south:
and the breadth of the place that was left was five
cubits round about.
041:012 The building that was before the separate place at the side
toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of
the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length
of it ninety cubits.
041:013 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long;
and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it,
one hundred cubits long;
041:014 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate
place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
041:015 He measured the length of the building before the separate
place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it
on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits;
and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
041:016 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round
about on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood
ceilings round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows,
(now the windows were covered),
041:017 to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside,
and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.
041:018 It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was
between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
041:019 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on
the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm
tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all
the house round about:
041:020 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made:
thus was the wall of the temple.
041:021 As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face
of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance
[of the temple].
041:022 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it
two cubits; and the corners of it, and the length of it,
and the walls of it, were of wood: and he said to me,
This is the table that is before Yahweh.
041:023 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
041:024 The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves:
two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
041:025 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls;
and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
041:026 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side
and on the other side, on the sides of the porch:
thus were the side chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
042:001 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward
the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was
over against the separate place, and which was over against
the building toward the north.
042:002 Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door,
and the breadth was fifty cubits.
042:003 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court,
and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court,
was gallery against gallery in the third story.
042:004 Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward,
a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
042:005 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took
away from these, more than from the lower and the middle,
in the building.
042:006 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars
as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was
straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.
042:007 The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers,
toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it
was fifty cubits.
042:008 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court
was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were
one hundred cubits.
042:009 From under these chambers was the entry on the east side,
as one goes into them from the outer court.
042:010 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,
before the separate place, and before the building,
there were chambers.
042:011 The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of]
the chambers which were toward the north; according to their
length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both
according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
042:012 According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south
was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly
before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
042:013 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers,
which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers,
where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most
holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the
meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering;
for the place is holy.
042:014 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of
the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay
their garments in which they minister; for they are holy:
and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach
to that which pertains to the people.
042:015 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house,
he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect
is toward the east, and measured it round about.
042:016 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
042:017 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring
reed round about.
042:018 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed.
042:019 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed.
042:020 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about,
the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred,
to make a separation between that which was holy and that
which was common.
043:001 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks
toward the east.
043:002 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.
043:003 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 on my face.
043:004 The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east.
043:005 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;
and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
043:006 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man
stood by me.
043:007 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 children of Israel forever.
The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name,
neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution,
and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
043:008 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold,
and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but]
the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy
name by their abominations which they have committed:
therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
043:009 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies
of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst
of them forever.
043:010 You, 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.
043:011 If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them
the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and the exits
of it, and the entrances of it, and all the forms of it,
and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it,
and all the laws of it; and write it in their sight; that they
may keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it,
and do them.
043:012 This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain
the whole limit of it round about shall be most holy.
Behold, this is the law of the house.
043:013 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit
is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit,
and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it
round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
043:014 From the bottom on 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.
043:015 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth
and upward there shall be four horns.
043:016 The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad,
square in the four sides of it.
043:017 The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad
in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half
a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit round about;
and the steps of it shall look toward the east.
043:018 He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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.
043:019 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of
the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,
says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.
043:020 You shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it,
and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about:
thus shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it.
043:021 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering,
and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house,
outside of the sanctuary.
043:022 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish
for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar,
as they did cleanse it with the bull.
043:023 When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young
bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
043:024 You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall
cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt
offering to Yahweh.
043:025 Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin offering:
they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of
the flock, without blemish.
043:026 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it;
so shall they consecrate it.
043:027 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on
the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your
burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings;
and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.
044:001 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary,
which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
044:002 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened,
neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God
of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.
044:003 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread
before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate,
and shall go out by the way of the same.
044:004 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house;
and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house
of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.
044:005 Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes,
and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all
the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws of it;
and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit
of the sanctuary.
044:006 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you
of all your abominations,
044:007 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in
heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary,
to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread,
the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant,
[to add] to all your abominations.
044:008 You have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have
set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
044:009 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart
and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary,
of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
044:010 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray,
who went astray from me after their idols, they shall
bear their iniquity.
044:011 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight
at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house:
they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people,
and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
044:012 Because they ministered to them before their idols,
and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house
of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them,
says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
044:013 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office
of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame,
and their abominations which they have committed.
044:014 Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all
the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.
044:015 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept
the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went
astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me;
and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and
the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
044:016 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near
to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
044:017 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the
inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments;
and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates
of the inner court, and within.
044:018 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen
breeches on their waists; they shall not gird themselves
with [anything that causes] sweat.
044:019 When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer
court to the people, they shall put off their garments
in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers;
and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify
the people with their garments.
044:020 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks
to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
044:021 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court.
044:022 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is
put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house
of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
044:023 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy
and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean
and the clean.
044:024 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my
ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws
and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall
make my Sabbaths holy.
044:025 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves;
but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter,
for brother, or for sister who has had no husband,
they may defile themselves.
044:026 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
044:027 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court,
to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,
says the Lord Yahweh.
044:028 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you
shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
044:029 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering,
and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel
shall be theirs.
044:030 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering
of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest:
you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough,
to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
044:031 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself,
or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
045:001 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance,
you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion
of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five
thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand:
it shall be holy in all the border of it round about.
045:002 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in
length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about;
and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about.
045:003 Of this measure shall you measure a length of twenty-five thousand,
and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary,
which is most holy.
045:004 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests,
the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh;
and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place
for the sanctuary.
045:005 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth,
shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house,
for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty chambers.
045:006 You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad,
and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering
of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
045:007 [Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on
the other side of the holy offering and of the possession
of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front
of the possession of the city, on the west side westward,
and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one
of the portions, from the west border to the east border.
045:008 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel:
and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall
give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
045:009 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel:
remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness;
dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
045:010 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
045:011 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth
part of a homer: the measure of it shall be after the homer.
045:012 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus
twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
045:013 This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part
of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth
part of an ephah from a homer of barley;
045:014 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part
of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer;
(for ten baths are a homer;)
045:015 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered
pastures of Israel--for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering,
and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,
says the Lord Yahweh.
045:016 All the people of the land shall give to this offering for
the prince in Israel.
045:017 It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings,
and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings,
in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths,
in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel:
he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering,
and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make
atonement for the house of Israel.
045:018 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first [month], in the first
[day] of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish;
and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
045:019 The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering,
and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four
corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate
of the inner court.
045:020 So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone
who errs, and for him who is simple: so shall you make
atonement for the house.
045:021 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month,
you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days;
unleavened bread shall be eaten.
045:022 On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all
the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
045:023 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering
to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily
the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
045:024 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull,
and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
045:025 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month,
in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days;
according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering,
and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.
046:001 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that
looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days;
but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day
of the new moon it shall be opened.
046:002 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside,
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.
046:003 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate
before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
046:004 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh
shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a
ram without blemish;
046:005 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram,
and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give,
and a hin of oil to an ephah.
046:006 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish,
and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
046:007 and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull,
and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according
as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
046:008 When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch
of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way of it.
046:009 But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh
in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north
gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate;
and he who enters 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 by which he came in, but shall go
forth straight before him.
046:010 The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them;
and when they go out, he shall go out.
046:011 In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering
shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram,
and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil
to an ephah.
046:012 When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt
offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh,
one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east;
and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings,
as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth;
and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
046:013 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a
burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning shall
you prepare it.
046:014 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning,
the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil,
to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually
by a perpetual ordinance.
046:015 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering,
and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
046:016 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any
of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons;
it is their possession by inheritance.
046:017 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants,
it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall
return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall
be for his sons.
046:018 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance,
to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give
inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my
people not be scattered every man from his possession.
046:019 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side
of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests,
which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place
on the hinder part westward.
046:020 He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil
the trespass offering and the sin offering, [and] where they
shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them forth
into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
046:021 Then he brought me forth into the outer 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.
046:022 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed,
forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners
were of one measure.
046:023 There was a wall round about in them, round about the four,
and boiling places were made under the walls round about.
046:024 Then said he to me, These are the boiling houses, where the
ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
047:001 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold,
waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward;
(for the forefront of the house was toward the east;)
and the waters came down from under, from the right side
of the house, on the south of the altar.
047:002 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward,
and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate,
by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east;
and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
047:003 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand,
he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass
through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.
047:004 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through
the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured
one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters],
waters that were to the waist.
047:005 Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river
that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen,
waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
047:006 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]?
Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank
of the river.
047:007 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river
were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
047:008 Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward
the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah;
and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall
the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters
shall be healed.
047:009 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms,
in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there
shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters
are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed,
and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
047:010 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it:
from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the
spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds,
as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
047:011 But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not
be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
047:012 By the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side,
shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither,
neither shall the fruit of it fail: it shall bring forth
new fruit every month, because the waters of it issue out
of the sanctuary; and the fruit of it shall be for food,
and the leaf of it for healing.
047:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which you
shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve
tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.
047:014 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore
to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall
to you for inheritance.
047:015 This shall be the border of the land: On the north side,
from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
047:016 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border
of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon,
which is by the border of Hauran.
047:017 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border
of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath.
This is the north side.
047:018 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead,
and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan;
from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure.
This is the east side.
047:019 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters
of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.
This is the south side southward.
047:020 The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south]
border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath.
This is the west side.
047:021 So shall you divide this land to you according to the
tribes of Israel.
047:022 It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you,
who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you
as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall
have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
047:023 It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns,
there shall you give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.
048:001 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end,
beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan
at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they
shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].
048:002 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side,
Asher, one [portion].
048:003 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side,
Naphtali, one [portion].
048:004 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side,
Manasseh, one [portion].
048:005 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side,
Ephraim, one [portion].
048:006 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the
west side, Reuben, one [portion].
048:007 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side,
Judah, one [portion].
048:008 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side,
shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand
[reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions,
from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall
be in the midst of it.
048:009 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five
thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
048:010 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering:
toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward
the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand
in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length:
and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it.
048:011 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons
of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who didn't go astray when
the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
048:012 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land,
a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
048:013 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have
twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth:
all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the
breadth ten thousand.
048:014 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first
fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
048:015 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front
of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use,
for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city
shall be in the midst of it.
048:016 These shall be the measures of it: 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.
048:017 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty,
and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east
two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
048:018 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering,
shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward;
and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and the increase
of it shall be for food to those who labor in the city.
048:019 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel,
shall cultivate it.
048:020 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by
twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering four-square,
with the possession of the city.
048:021 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on
the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city;
in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward
the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five
thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions,
it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and
the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.
048:022 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,
it shall be for the prince.
048:023 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the
west side, Benjamin, one [portion].
048:024 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side,
Simeon, one [portion].
048:025 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side,
Issachar, one [portion].
048:026 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side,
Zebulun, one [portion].
048:027 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side,
Gad, one [portion].
048:028 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border
shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh,
to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.
048:029 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes
of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions,
says the Lord Yahweh.
048:030 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four
thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;
048:031 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes
of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one;
the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
048:032 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds],
and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate
of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
048:033 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds]
by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate
of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
048:034 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds],
with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate
of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
048:035 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about:
and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.