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