Afterward
he brought me to the gate, even the gate that
looketh toward the east:
02 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.
03 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.
04 And the glory of the Lord came into the house
by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward
the east.
05 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into
the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the
Lord filled the house.
06 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the
house; and the man stood by me.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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