| Chapter
43 |
| 1 |
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the
east: |
| 2 | And, behold, the
glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was
like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. |
| 3 | And 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 upon my face. |
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4 | And the glory of the LORD came into the house by
the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. |
| 5 | So the spirit took me up, and brought me
into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. |
| 6 | And I heard him speaking
unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. |
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7 | And he said unto me, Son of man, 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 for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel
no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the
carcases of their kings in their high places. |
| 8 | In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and
their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even
defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore
I have consumed them in mine anger. |
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9 | Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their
kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. |
| 10 | Thou son of man, shew the
house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and
let them measure the pattern. |
| 11
| And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew 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 ordinances thereof,
and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their
sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances
thereof, and do them. |
| 12 |
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. |
| 13 | And these are
the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand
breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the
border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall
be the higher place of the altar. |
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14 | And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle
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. |
| 15 | So the altar shall be four
cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. |
| 16 | And the altar shall be twelve cubits
long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof. |
| 17 | And the settle shall be fourteen
cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border
about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about;
and his stairs shall look toward the east. |
| 18 | And 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 sprinkle blood thereon. |
| 19 | And thou shalt give to the priests
the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister
unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. |
| 20 | And 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 cleanse and purge
it. |
| 21 | Thou shalt take
the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed
place of the house, without the sanctuary. |
| 22 | And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as
they did cleanse it with the bullock. |
| 23 | When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt
offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without
blemish. |
| 24 | And thou
shalt offer 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. |
| 25 | Seven 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. |
| 26 | Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it;
and they shall consecrate themselves. |
| 27 | And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon
the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings
upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord
GOD. |
