Ezekiel
43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward
the east:
43:2 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.
43:3 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.
43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east.
43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
43:6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by
me.
43:7 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.
43:8 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.
43:9 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.
43:10 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.
43:11 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.
43:12 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.
43:13 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.
43:14 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.
43:15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall
be four horns.
43:16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the
four squares thereof.
43:17 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.
43:18 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.
43:19 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.
43:20 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.
43:21 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.
43:22 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.
43:23 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.
43:24 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.
43:25 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.
43:26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall
consecrate themselves.
43:27 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.
