the slabs, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about; and upon the tables was to be the flesh of the offering. ^And without the inner gate were chambers for the guard^ 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. 45And he said unto me. "This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. 46And 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 the LORD to minister unto Him.'
47And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
48Then 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 thex breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. 49The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and it was by steps that it was ascended; and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. A 1 And he brought me to athe tem- *- pie, 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. 2And 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 meas- ured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
3Then went he inward, and measured * That is, th'e holy place EZEKIEL each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits. 4And he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twen- ty cubits, before the temple; and he said unto me: 'This is the most holy place.'
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. 6And the side-chambers were one over another, three and thirty times; and there were cornices in 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. 7And the side-chambers were broader as they wound about higher and higher; for the winding about 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 row to the highest by the middle. 8I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six cubits to the joining. 9The breadth of the outer wall which belonged to the side-chambers was five cubits; and so that which was left by the structure of the side-chambers that belonged to the house, 10And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. " uAnd 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.
^And 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 thereof ninety cubits.
13And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, -with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; 14also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. 15And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits.
Now the temple, and the inner place, and the porches of the court, 16the jambs, and the narrow windows, and the galleries, that they three had round about, over against the jambs there was a veneering of wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows; and the windows were covered; 17to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and on all the wall round about within and without, by meas- ure. 18And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; 19so 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. 20Prom the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm- trees made; and so on the wall of the temple. 21As for the temple, the jambs were squared; and the face of the sanctuary had an appearance such as is the appearance.
22The altar, three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits, was of wood, and so the corners thereof; the length thereof, and the walls EZEKIEL thereof, were also of wood; and he said unto me: 'This is the table that is before the LORD.'
2?And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other. 25And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick beams of wood upon the face of the porch without. 26And there were narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch; there were also the brackets of the house, and the thick beams.
JO Then he brought me forth into the outer eourt, 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, 2even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits, 3over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pave- ment which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories. 4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 6Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. 6For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground. 7And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits. 9And from under these ^ chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court. 10In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the build- ing, there were chambers, uwith a way before them; like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they, with all their goings out, and according to their fashions; and as their doors, ^so were also the doors of the chambers that were toward the south, there was»a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall, toward the way from the east, as.one entereth into them.
13Then said he unto me: 'The north chambers and the south cham- bers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that are near unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt- offering; for the place is holy. uwhen 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 wherein they minister, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertaineth to the peo- ple.'
15Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose L2U5 EZEKIEL Drospect is toward the east, and neasured it round about. 16He measured the east side with the neasuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 7He measured the north side, five lundred reeds, with the measuring "eed round about. 18He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, erith the measuring reed. 19He turned ibout to the west side, and measured live hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the Length five hundred, and the breadth &ve hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and bhat which was common. ,/j_Q Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east; 2and, 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 did shine with His glory. 5And the appearance of the vision which I saw was like the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5And a spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6And I heard 3ne speaking unto me out of the house; md a man stood by me. 7And He said unto me: 'Son of man, this is ,he place of My throne, and the place )f the soles of My feet, where I will Iwell in the midst of the children of srael for ever; and the house of srael shall no more defile My holy( tame, neither they, nor their kings,' >y their harlotry, and by the carcasses of their kings in their high places; 8in their setting of their threshold by My threshold, and their door-post beside My door-post, and there was but the wall between Me and them; and they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed; wherefore I have consumed them in Mine anger. 9Now let them put away their harlotry, and the carcasses of their kings, far from Me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure accurately. nAnd if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordi- nances thereof, and all the forms there- of, and all the laws thereof, and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the or- dinances thereof, and do them.
^This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
13And 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 thereof by the edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. 14And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit. 16And the hearth shall be four cubits; and from the EZEKIEL hearth and upward there shall be four horns. 16And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof. 17And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bot- tom thereof shall be a cubit about; and the steps thereof shall look toward the east/ 18And He said unto me • 'Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, and to dash blood against it. 19Thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who are near unto Me, to minister unto Me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin- offering. 20And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about; thus shalt thou purify it and make atonement for it. 21Thou shalt also take the bullock of the sin- offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. 22And on the second day thou shalt offer a he-goat with- out blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall purify the altar, as they did purify it with the bullock. 23When thou hast made an end of purifying it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock.without blemish. 24And thou shalt present them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 2fiSeven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering; they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 26Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it. 27And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD/ A A Then he brought me back the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. 2And the LORD said unto me: 'This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. 3As for the prince, being a prince, he shall sit therein to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same/ *Then he brought me the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell upon my face. 5And the LORD said unto me: 'Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. 6And thou shalt say to -the rebellious, even to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: 0 ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, 7m that ye have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in. flesh, to, be in My sanctuary, to profane it, even My house, when ye offer My bread, the fat and the blood, and they have bro- ken My covenant, to add unto all your EZEKIEL abominations. 8And ye have not kept the charge of My holy things, but ye have set keepers of My charge in My sanctuary to please yourselves. sThus saith the Lord GOD: No alien, uncircumcised in heart and uncircum- cised in flesh, shall enter into My sanc- tuary, even any alien that is among the children of Israel. 10But the Levites, that went far from Me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity; uand they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stum- blingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up My hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniqui- ty. ^And they shall not come near unto Me, to minister unto Me in the priest's office, nor to come near to any of My holy things, unto the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abomina- tions which they have committed. 14And I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
16But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister unto Me; and they shall stand before Me to offgr unto Me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD; 16they shall enter into My sanctuary, and' they shall come near to My table, to minister unto Me, and they shall keep My charge. 17And 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 upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the peo- ple, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments. 20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. ^Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. ^Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest. 23 And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. MAnd in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to Mine ordinances shall they judge it; and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed seasons, and they shall hallow My sabbaths. 25And they shall come near no dead person bo defile themselves; but for father, or ror mother, or for son, or for daughter, ror brother, or for sister that hath lad no husband, they may defile ;hemselves. 2SAnd after he is cleansed, ;hey shall reckon unto him seven days. 7Andin the^day thathegoeth into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to EZEKIEL minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering, saith the Lord GOD. 28And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inherit- ance; and ye shall give them no pos- session in Israel: I am their possession. 29The meal-offering, and the sin- offering, and the guilt-offering, they, even they, shall eat; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. *°And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every heave-offering of every thing, of all your offerings, shall be for the priests; ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house. 31The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be fowl or beast. A K Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall set apart an offering unto the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand; it shall be holy in all the bor'der thereof round about. 20f 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 open land round about it. 3And of this measure shalt thou measure ] a length of five and twenty thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand; and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. 4It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, that come near to minister unto the LORD; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a place consecrated for the* sanctuary. 6And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, which shall be unto the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a pos- session unto themselves, for twenty chambers. 6And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7And for the prince, 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 unto one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border 8of the land; it shall be to him for a possession in Israel, and My princes shall no more wrong My people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
^Thus saith the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, 0 princes of Israel; re- move violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from My people, saith the Lord GOD.
10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. uThe 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 thereof shall be after the homer. 12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, ten, and five shekels, shall be your maneh.
13This is the offering that ye shall set apart- the sixth part of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah out of a homer of barley; 14and the set portion of oil, the bath of oil, shall be the tithe of the bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; for ten baths are a homer; 16and one lamb EZEKIEL 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, saith the Lord GOD. 16A11 the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel. 17And it shall be the prince's part to give the burnt-offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink- offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel; he shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meal-offering, and the burnt- oflering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of 18Thus saith the Lord GOD: In the first month, in the first day' of the month, thou shalt take a young bul- lock without blemish; and thou shalt purify the sanctuary. * 9And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin- offering, and put it upon the door- posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20And so thou shalt do on the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple; so shall ye make atonement for first month, n the house. aln the , the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the pass- over; a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. ^And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering. ^And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt-offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; aud a he-goat daily for a sin-offering. ' he shall prepare a meal-offering, 46 an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah ^In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; to the sin-offering as well as the burnt- offering, and the meal-offering as well as the oil