[35:1] Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [35:2] Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, [35:3] and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. [35:4] I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [35:5] Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; [35:6] therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. [35:7] Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. [35:8] I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword. [35:9] I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [35:10] Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there: [35:11] therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you. [35:12] You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour. [35:13] You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it. [35:14] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. [35:15] As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
[36:1] You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh. [36:2] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession; [36:3] therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; [36:4] therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; [36:5] therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. [36:6] Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations: [36:7] therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame. [36:8] But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. [36:9] For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown; [36:10] and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built; [36:11] and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better to you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [36:12] Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children. [36:13] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You land are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation; [36:14] therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh; [36:15] neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh. [36:16] Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [36:17] Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. [36:18] Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols; [36:19] and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. [36:20] When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land. [36:21] But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went. [36:22] Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went. [36:23] I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. [36:24] For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. [36:25] I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. [36:26] A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. [36:27] I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. [36:28] You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. [36:29] I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. [36:30] I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. [36:31] Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. [36:32] Nor for your sake do I this, says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel. [36:33] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built. [36:34] The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. [36:35] They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. [36:36] Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it. [36:37] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. [36:38] As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
[37:1] The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. [37:2] He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. [37:3] He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know. [37:4] Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. [37:5] Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. [37:6] I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [37:7] So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. [37:8] I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. [37:9] Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. [37:10] So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army. [37:11] Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. [37:12] Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. [37:13] You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. [37:14] I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh. [37:15] The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, [37:16] You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: [37:17] and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. [37:18] When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these? [37:19] tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. [37:20] The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. [37:21] Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: [37:22] and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; [37:23] neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. [37:24] My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. [37:25] They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. [37:26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. [37:27] My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [37:28] The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
[38:1] The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [38:2] Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, [38:3] and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: [38:4] and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; [38:5] Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; [38:6] Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you. [38:7] Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. [38:8] After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them. [38:9] You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you. [38:10] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device: [38:11] and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; [38:12] to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth. [38:13] Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil? [38:14] Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it? [38:15] You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army; [38:16] and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes. [38:17] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? [38:18] It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils. [38:19] For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [38:20] so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. [38:21] I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother. [38:22] With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. [38:23] I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
[39:1] You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: [39:2] and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel; [39:3] and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. [39:4] You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. [39:5] You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. [39:6] I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. [39:7] My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. [39:8] Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I have spoken. [39:9] Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; [39:10] so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh. [39:11] It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog. [39:12] Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. [39:13] Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh. [39:14] They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. [39:15] Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. [39:16] Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land. [39:17] You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. [39:18] You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. [39:19] You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. [39:20] You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh. [39:21] I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. [39:22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward. [39:23] The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. [39:24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them. [39:25] Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. [39:26] They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; [39:27] when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. [39:28] They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; [39:29] neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
[40:1] In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there. [40:2] In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south. [40:3] He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. [40:4] The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel. [40:5] Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. [40:6] Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. [40:7] Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. [40:8] He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. [40:9] Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house. [40:10] The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. [40:11] He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; [40:12] and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. [40:13] He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door. [40:14] He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate. [40:15] From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. [40:16] There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on each post were palm trees. [40:17] Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty chambers were on the pavement. [40:18] The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. [40:19] Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north. [40:20] The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth. [40:21] The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. [40:22] The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them. [40:23] There was a gate to the inner court over against the other gate, both on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits. [40:24] He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures. [40:25] There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. [40:26] There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts. [40:27] There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits. [40:28] Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures; [40:29] and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. [40:30] There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad. [40:31] The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps. [40:32] He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures; [40:33] and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. [40:34] The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. [40:35] He brought me to the north gate: and he measured it according to these measures; [40:36] its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. [40:37] The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. [40:38] A chamber with its door was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering. [40:39] In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. [40:40] On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. [40:41] Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed the sacrifices. [40:42] There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice. [40:43] The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. [40:44] Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. [40:45] He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house; [40:46] and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him. [40:47] He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house. [40:48] Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. [40:49] The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
[41:1] He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent. [41:2] The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. [41:3] Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits. [41:4] He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. [41:5] Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side. [41:6] The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side chambers all around, that they might have hold therein, and not have hold in the wall of the house. [41:7] The side chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber. [41:8] I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. [41:9] The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that belonged to the house. [41:10] Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side. [41:11] The doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around. [41:12] The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. [41:13] So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; [41:14] also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits. [41:15] He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; [41:16] the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), [41:17] to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. [41:18] It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; [41:19] so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. thus was it made through all the house all around: [41:20] from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple. [41:21] As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance of it was as the appearance of the temple. [41:22] The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh. [41:23] The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. [41:24] The doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves: two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other. [41:25] There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. [41:26] There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
[42:1] Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north. [42:2] Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. [42:3] Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story. [42:4] Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. [42:5] Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building. [42:6] For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. [42:7] The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. [42:8] For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits. [42:9] From under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. [42:10] In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers. [42:11] The way before them was like the appearance of the way of the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. [42:12] According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them. [42:13] Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. [42:14] When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people. [42:15] Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around. [42:16] He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around. [42:17] He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around. [42:18] He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. [42:19] He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. [42:20] He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
[43:1] Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east. [43:2] 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. [43:3] 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 on my face. [43:4] The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. [43:5] The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house. [43:6] I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. [43:7] 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 forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places; [43:8] in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger. [43:9] Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever. [43:10] 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. [43:11] If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, 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 of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. [43:12] This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. [43:13] 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 around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. [43:14] From the bottom on 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. [43:15] The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. [43:16] The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it. [43:17] The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east. [43:18] He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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] You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering. [43:20] You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it. [43:21] You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. [43:22] On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bull. [43:23] When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. [43:24] You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh. [43:25] Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. [43:26] Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it. [43:27] When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.
[44:1] Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut. [44:2] Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. [44:3] As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. [44:4] Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face. [44:5] Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. [44:6] You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, [44:7] in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. [44:8] You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves. [44:9] Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. [44:10] But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. [44:11] Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. [44:12] Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity. [44:13] They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. [44:14] Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein. [44:15] But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh: [44:16] they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction. [44:17] It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. [44:18] They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat. [44:19] When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments. [44:20] Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads. [44:21] Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. [44:22] Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. [44:23] They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. [44:24] In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy. [44:25] They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. [44:26] After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. [44:27] In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh. [44:28] They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. [44:29] They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. [44:30] The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. [44:31] The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.