Ezekiel 43–46

43Afterward he brought me to the gate, even ^athe gate that looketh toward the east: ²And, behold, ^bthe glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and ^chis voice was like a noise of many waters: and ^dthe earth shined with his glory. ³And it was ^eaccording to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw ^||when I came ^fto destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw ^gby the river Chebar; and ^eI fell upon my face. ⁴And ^bhthe glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of ^athe gate whose prospect is toward the east. ⁵So ⁱthe spirit took me up, and brought me into ^kthe inner court; and, behold, ^lthe glory of the Lord filled the house. ⁶And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and ^mthe man stood by me. ⁷And he said unto me, Son of man, ⁿthe place of my throne, and ^othe place of the soles of my feet, ^pwhere I will dwell ^qin the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and ^rmy holy name, shall the house of Israel ^rsno more defile, neither they, nor their kings, ^tby their whoredom, nor ^tby the carcases of their kings in their high places. ^8uIn their setting of their threshold by ^vmy thresholds, and their post by ^wmy posts, ^||and ^xthe wall between me and them, ^rythey have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. ⁹Now let them put away ^ttheir whoredom, and ^tthe carcases of their kings, far from me, and ^pI will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

¹⁰Thou son of man, ^zshew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure ^athe ^||pattern. ¹¹And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, ^bshew them the form of the house, and ^acthe fashion thereof, and ^dthe goings out thereof, and ^dthe comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and ^ddall the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and ^ddall the laws thereof: and write it ^ein their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all ^ddthe ordinances thereof, and do them. ¹²This is the law of the house; ^fUpon the top of the mountain the whole ^glimit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

¹³And these are the measures of ^hthe altar after the cubits: ⁱThe cubit is a cubit and an 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 eighth 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.

44Then 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 ^zlifted 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…