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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 43
And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the
east.
And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by
the way of the east: and his voice was like the noise
of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty.
And I saw the vision according to the appearance which
I had seen when he came to destroy the city: and the
appearance was according to the vision which I had seen
by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
And the majesty of the Lord went into the temple by
the way of the gate that looked to the east.
And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the
inner court: and behold the house was filled with the
glory of the Lord.
And I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and
the man that stood by me,
Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and
the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in
the midst of the children of Israel for ever: and the
house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name,
they and their kings by their fornications, and by the
carcasses of their kings, and by the high places.
They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and
their posts by my posts: and there was but a wall between
me and them: and they profaned my holy name by the abominations
which they committed: for which reason I consumed them
in my wrath.
8bout: and thou shalt cleanse, and expiate it.
Now therefore let them put away their fornications,
and the carcasses of their kings far from me: and I
will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the
temple, and let them be ashamed of their iniquities,
and let them measure the building:
And be ashamed of all that they have done. Shew them
the form of the house, and of the fashion thereof, the
goings out and the comings in, and the whole plan thereof,
and all its ordinances, and all its order, and all its
laws, and thou shalt write it in their sight: that they
may keep the whole form thereof, and its ordinances,
and do them.
This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain:
All its border round about is most holy: this then is
the law of the house.
And these are the measures of the altar by the truest
cubit, which is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom
thereof was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit: and the
border thereof unto its edge, and round about, one handbreadth:
and this was the trench of the altar.
And from the bottom of the ground to the lowest brim
two cubits, and the breadth of one cubit: and from the
lesser brim to the greater brim four cubits, and the
breadth of one cubit.
And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel
upward were four horns.
And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits
broad, foursquare, with equal sides.
And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen
cubits broad in the four corners thereof: and the crown
round about it was half a cubit, and the bottom of it
one cubit round about: and its steps turned toward the
east.
And he said to me: Son of man, thus saith the Lord God:
These are the ceremonies of the altar, in what day soever
it shall be made: that holocausts may be offered upon
it, and blood poured out.
And thou shalt give to the priests, and the Levites,
that are of the race of Sadoc, who approach to me, saith
the Lord God, to offer to me a calf of the herd for
sin.
And thou shalt take of his blood, and shalt put it upon
the four horns thereof, and upon the four corners of
the brim, and upon the crown round
And thou shalt take the calf, that is offered for sin:
and thou shalt burn him in a separate place of the house
without the sanctuary.
And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without
blemish for sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as
they expiated it with the calf.
And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation
thereof, thou shalt offer a calf of the herd without
blemish, and a ram of the flock without blemish.
And thou shalt offer them in the sight of the Lord:
and the priests shall put salt upon them, and shall
offer them a holocaust to the Lord.
Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat for sill daily:
they shall offer also a calf of the herd, and a ram
of the flock without blemish.
Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse
it: and they shall consecrate it.
And the days being, expired, on the eighth day and thenceforward,
the priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar,
and the peace offerings: and I will be pacified towards
you, saith the Lord God. |
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