Ezekiel 43:13–46:24

¹³And these are the measures of ^hthe altar after the cubits: ⁱThe cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and ^gthe border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be ^ka span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. ¹⁴And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower ^lsettle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. ¹⁵So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be ^mfour horns. ¹⁶And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, ⁿsquare in the four ^osquares thereof. ¹⁷And ^lthe settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four ^osquares thereof; and ^gthe border about it shall be ^khalf a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and ^phis stairs shall look toward the east.

¹⁸And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are ^qthe ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and ^rto sprinkle blood thereon. ¹⁹And thou shalt give to ^sthe priests the Levites ^stthat be of the seed of Zadok, ^twhich approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, ^uva young bullock ^vfor a sin offering. ²⁰And ^wthou shalt take of the blood thereof, and ^wput it on ^mthe four horns of it, and on the four corners of ^xthe settle, and upon ^gythe border round about: thus ^zshalt thou cleanse and ^zzpurge it. ²¹Thou shalt take ^vthe bullock also of the sin offering, and he ^ashall burn it in ^bthe appointed place of the house, ^awithout the sanctuary. ²²And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and ^zthey shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock. ²³When thou hast made an end of ^zcleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. ²⁴And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the priests ^cshall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the Lord. ^25dSeven 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. ^26dSeven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. ²⁷And when these ^edays are expired, it shall be, that ^fupon the eight day, ^gand so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your ^hpeace offerings; and I will ⁱaccept you, saith the Lord God.

XLIV.Then he brought me ^aback the way of ^bthe gate of the outward sanctuary ^bwhich looketh toward the east; and it was shut. ²Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; ^cbecause the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. ³It is for ^dthe prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to ^eeat bread before the Lord; ^fhe shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

⁴Then brought he me the way of ^gthe north gate before the house: and I looked, and behold, ^hthe glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and ⁱI fell upon my face. ⁵And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and ^jbehold with thine eyes, and ^jhear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning ^kall the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and ^kall the laws thereof; and mark well ^kthe entering in of the house, with every ^kgoing forth of the sanctuary. ⁶And thou shalt say to ^lthe rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; O ye house of Israel, ^mlet it suffice you of all your abominations, ⁷ⁿin that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, ^ouncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, ⁿto be in my sanctuary, ^pto pollute it, even my house, when ye offer ^qmy bread, ^rthe fat and ^rsthe blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. ⁸And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have ^tset keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

⁹Thus saith the Lord God; ⁿNo stranger, ^ouncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. ¹⁰And ^uthe Levites that are gone away far from me, ^uwhen Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even ^vbear their iniquity. ¹¹Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having ^wcharge ^xat the gates of the house, and ^xxministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and ^ythey shall stand before them to minister unto them. ¹²Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I ^zlift up mine hand against them, saith the Lord God, and ^vthey shall bear their iniquity. ¹³And ^athey shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in ^bthe most holy place: but ^cthey shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. ¹⁴But I will make them ^dekeepers of the charge of the house, ^efor all the service thereof, and ^efor all that shall be done therein. ¹⁵But ^eethe priests the Levites, ^efthe sons of Zadok, ^dthat kept the charge of my sanctuary ^uwhen the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me ^fto minister unto me, and ^fthey shall stand before me ^gto offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God: ¹⁶They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to ^hmy table, ^fto minister unto me, and ^dthey shall keep my charge.

¹⁷And it shall come to pass, that ⁱwhen they enter in at the gates of ^jthe inner court, ^kthey shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. ¹⁸They shall have ^llinen ^mbonnets upon their heads, and shall have ^llinen ⁿbreeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. ¹⁹And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court ^oto the people, ^opthey shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and ^olay them in the holy chambers, and ^pthey shall put on other garments; and they shall not ^qsanctify the people with their garments. ^20rNeither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their ^slocks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. ^21tNeither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into ^jthe inner court. ²²Neither shall they take for their wives ^ua widow, nor ^uher that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. ²³And ^vthey shall teach my people the difference ^wxbetween the holy and profane, and ^wcause them to discern ^xbetween the unclean and the clean. ²⁴And ^yin controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and ^wthey shall hallow my sabbaths. ²⁵And ^zthey shall come at no dead person ^ato defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, ^zthey may defile themselves. ²⁶And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him ^bseven days. ²⁷And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto ^cthe inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, ^dhe shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord God. ²⁸And ^eit shall be unto them for an inheritance: ^eI am their inheritance: and ^eye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession. ^29fThey shall eat the meat offering, and ^fthe sin offering, and ^fthe trespass offering; and ^gevery dedicate thing in Israel shall be theirs. ³⁰And ^hthe ⁱfirst of all the firstfruits of all things, and every ^koblation of all, of every sort of ^ikyour oblations, shall be the priests’: ye shall also give unto the priest ^lthe first of your dough, ^mthat he may cause ⁿthe blessing to rest in thine house. ³¹The priests shall not eat of ^oany thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

XLV.Moreover, when ye shall ^adivide by lot the land for inheritance, ^bye shall offer an ^coblation unto the Lord, a holy portion of the land: ^bthe length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand ^dreeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. ²Of this there shall be for the sanctuary ^efive hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, ^fsquare round about; and fifty cubits round about for ^gthe suburbs thereof. ³And ^hof this measure shalt thou measure ^bhthe length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and ⁱin it shall be the sanctuary and ^kthe most holy place. ^4hThe holy portion of the land shall be ^lfor the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, ^mwhich shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and ⁿa holy place for the sanctuary. ⁵And ^othe five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, ^oshall also the Levites, ^pthe ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for ^qtwenty chambers. ⁶And ^rye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, ^rrover against ^cthe oblation of the holy portion: ^sit shall be for the whole house of Israel. ⁷And ^ssa portion shall be for ^tthe prince on the one side and on the other side of ^cthe oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. ⁸In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and ^umy princes shall…