Ezekiel 43:1–12

Return of the Lord’s Glory and Description of Sacrifices and Worship

43 And he brought me to the gate which was ⌊facing east⌋.a 2 And, look! The glory of the God of Israel, it came from the way of the east, and its sound was like the sound of many watersb and the land radiated due to his glory! 3 Andc the appearance of the vision which I saw was asd the vision which I saw at hise coming to destroy the city, and these visions were also asf the vision which I saw by the ⌊Kebar River⌋,g and I fell on my face.

4 And then the glory of Yahweh came to the temple ⌊by the way of the gate facing east⌋.h 5 And the Spirit lifted me and it brought me to the inner courtyard and, look! The glory of Yahweh filled the temple! 6 And I heard someone speaking to me from the house,i and a man was standing beside me. 7 And he said to me, “Son of man,j this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet ⌊where I will dwell⌋k in the midst of the ⌊Israelites⌋l to eternity, and they, the house of Israel, they and their kings, will not again defile ⌊my holy name⌋m with their fornication and with their offerings for the deadn of their kings on their high places. 8 ⌊When they placed their threshold⌋o withp my threshold, their doorframe beside my doorframe and theq wall was between me and between them, then they defiled ⌊my holy name⌋,r with their detestable things that they did, and so I consumed them in my anger. 9 Now let them send their fornication far away and the offerings for the deads of their kings away from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them ⌊forever⌋.t

10 You, son of man,u describe to the house of Israel the temple and let them be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they are ashamed of all that they did, then the plan of the temple and its arrangement and its exits and its entrances and all of its plansv and all of its statutes. And all of its plansw and all of its lawsx make known to them and write them before their eyes, so that they may remember all of its plans and all of its statutes, so that they do them! 12 This is the lawy of the temple: On the top of the mountain, all of its territory, ⌊all the way around it⌋,z ⌊will be most holy⌋.a Look, this is the law of the temple.

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a	Literally “which was facing to the way of the east”
b	Hebrew “water”
c	Or “and as”; as is not needed in translation
d	Or “like”
e	Or “my coming”
f	Or “like”
g	Literally “river of Kebar”
h	Literally “by the way of the gate which its face was to the way of the east”
i	Or “from inside”
j	Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
k	Literally “which I will dwell there”
l	Literally “sons/children of Israel”
m	Literally “the name of my holiness”
n	Or “corpses”
o	Literally “in/at their placing their threshold”
p	Or “beside/next to”
q	Or “their”
r	Literally “the name of my holiness”
s	Or “corpses”
t	Literally “to eternity”
u	Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
v	Or “its entire pattern”
w	Or “purposes”
x	According to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS
y	Literally “torah” or “instruction”
z	Literally “all around, all around”
a	Literally “will be a holiness of holinesses”