Ezek 43
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Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.
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And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his
voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.
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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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And the glory of YHWH came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is
toward the east.
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And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory
of YHWH filled the house.
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And I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
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And he said to me, Son of man, [this is] 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 the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor
their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high
places;
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in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my
door-post, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled
my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: wherefore I have consumed
them in mine anger.
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Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from
me; and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
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You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of
their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
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And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of
the house, and its fashion, and its egresses, and its entrances,
and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms,
and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole
form thereof, and all its ordinances, and do them.
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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.
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And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth):
the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border by the
edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
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And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the
breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits,
and the breadth a cubit.
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And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there
shall be four horns.
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And the altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the
four sides thereof.
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And the ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides
thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall
be a cubit round about; and its steps shall look toward the east.
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And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord YHWH: 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.
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You shall give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who are near
to me, to minister to me, says the Lord YHWH, a young bullock for a sin-offering.
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And you shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on
the four corners of the ledge, and upon the border round about: thus shall you cleanse
it and make atonement for it.
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You shall also take the bullock of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the
appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
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And on the second day you shall offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin-offering;
and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
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When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock without
blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
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And you shall bring them near before YHWH, and the priests shall cast salt upon them,
and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering to YHWH.
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Seven days shall you 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.
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Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate
it.
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And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the eighth day, and
forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings;
and I will accept you, says the Lord YHWH.