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Ezekiel 40-47
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Vision of the New Temple

40 (A)In the twenty-fifth year (B)of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, (C)in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, (D)the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city.[a] 2 In (E)visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on (F)a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south. 3 When he brought me there, behold, there was (G)a man whose appearance was (H)like bronze, with (I)a linen cord and (J)a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway. 4 And the man said to me, (K)“Son of man, (L)look with your eyes, and (M)hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. (N)Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

The East Gate to the Outer Court

5 And behold, there was (O)a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, (P)each being a cubit and a handbreadth[b] in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6 Then he went into (Q)the gateway facing east, (R)going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.[c] 7 And (S)the side rooms, one reed long and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed. 8 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed. 9 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; (T)and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end. 10 And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate. (U)The three were of the same size, and the jambs on either side were of the same size. 11 Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits. 12 There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side. 13 Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other. 14 He measured also (V)the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.[d] 15 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits. 16 And the gateway had (W)windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their (X)jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were (Y)palm trees.

The Outer Court

17 Then he brought me into (Z)the outer court. And behold, there were (AA)chambers and a (AB)pavement, all around the court. (AC)Thirty chambers faced the pavement. 18 And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court,[e] a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side.[f]

The North Gate

20 As for (AD)the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to (AE)the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth. 21 Its (AF)side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of (AG)the first gate. Its length was (AH)fifty cubits, and its breadth (AI)twenty-five cubits. 22 And (AJ)its windows, its vestibule, and (AK)its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. And by seven steps (AL)people would go up to it, and find its vestibule before them. 23 And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to (AM)the inner court. And (AN)he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

The South Gate

24 And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south. And (AO)he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others. 25 Both it and its vestibule (AP)had windows all around, like the windows of the others. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 26 And there were seven steps leading up to it, and its vestibule was before them, and it had (AQ)palm trees on its jambs, one on either side. 27 And there was a gate on the south of (AR)the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

The Inner Court

28 Then he brought me to (AS)the inner court through the south gate, and (AT)he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others. 29 Its (AU)side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule (AV)had windows all around. (AW)Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 30 And there were vestibules all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad. 31 Its vestibule faced the outer court, and (AX)palm trees were on its jambs, and (AY)its stairway had eight steps.

32 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and (AZ)he measured the gate. It was of the same size as the others. 33 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 34 (BA)Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

35 Then he brought me to (BB)the north gate, and (BC)he measured it. It had the same size as the others. 36 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others,[g] and it had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 37 Its vestibule[h] faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

38 There was (BD)a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate,[i] (BE)where the burnt offering was to be washed. 39 And in the vestibule of the gate were two (BF)tables on either side, on which the (BG)burnt offering and the (BH)sin offering and the (BI)guilt offering were to be slaughtered. 40 And off to the side, on the outside as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables; and off to the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables. 41 (BJ)Four tables were on either side of the gate, eight tables, (BK)on which to slaughter. 42 And there were four tables (BL)of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the (BM)burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered. 43 And hooks,[j] a handbreadth long, were fastened all around within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

Chambers for the Priests

44 On the outside of the inner gateway there were two (BN)chambers[k] in the (BO)inner court, one[l] at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south[m] gate facing north. 45 And he said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests (BP)who have charge of the temple, 46 and the chamber that faces north is for the priests (BQ)who have charge of the altar. These are (BR)the sons of Zadok, who alone[n] among the sons of Levi may come (BS)near to the Lord to minister to him.” 47 And he measured the court, (BT)a hundred cubits long and (BU)a hundred cubits broad, a square. And (BV)the altar was in front of the temple.

The Vestibule of the Temple

48 Then he brought me to (BW)the vestibule of the temple and measured the (BX)jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side. And the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits, and the sidewalls of the gate[o] were three cubits on either side. 49 (BY)The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve[p] cubits, and people would go up to it by ten steps.[q] And there were pillars beside the jambs, one on either side.

The Inner Temple

41 Then he brought me to (BZ)the nave and measured the (CA)jambs. On each side six cubits[r] was the breadth of the jambs.[s] 2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave,[t] (CB)forty cubits, and its breadth, (CC)twenty cubits. 3 Then he went (CD)into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side[u] of the entrance, seven cubits. 4 And he measured (CE)the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across (CF)the nave. And he said to me, “This is (CG)the Most Holy Place.”

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of (CH)the side chambers, four cubits, (CI)all around the temple. 6 And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, (CJ)thirty in each story. There were offsets[v] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, (CK)so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. 7 And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and (CL)so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. 8 I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of (CM)six long cubits. 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. (CN)The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the 10 (CO)other chambers was a breadth of (CP)twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. 11 And the doors of the (CQ)side chambers opened on (CR)the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.

12 The building that was facing (CS)the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 Then he measured the temple, (CT)a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; 14 also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.

15 Then he measured the length of (CU)the building facing the yard that was at the back and (CV)its galleries[w] on either side, a hundred cubits.

The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court, 16 (CW)the thresholds and (CX)the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered), 17 to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.[x] 18 It was carved of (CY)cherubim and (CZ)palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces: 19 (DA)a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around. 20 From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.

21 The doorposts of (DB)the nave were squared, and in front of (DC)the Holy Place was something resembling 22 (DD)an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad.[y] Its corners, its base,[z] and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is (DE)the table that is before the Lord.” 23 The nave and the Holy Place had each (DF)a double door. 24 The double doors had two leaves apiece, (DG)two swinging leaves for each door. 25 And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, (DH)such as were carved on the walls. And there was (DI)a canopy[aa] of wood in front of (DJ)the vestibule outside. 26 And there were (DK)narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, (DL)the side chambers of the temple, and the (DM)canopies.

The Temple's Chambers

42 Then he led me out into (DN)the outer court, (DO)toward the north, and he brought me to (DP)the chambers that were opposite (DQ)the separate yard and opposite (DR)the building on the north. 2 The length of the building whose door faced north was (DS)a hundred cubits,[ab] and (DT)the breadth fifty cubits. 3 Facing (DU)the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing (DV)the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was (DW)gallery[ac] against gallery in three stories. 4 And (DX)before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and (DY)a hundred cubits long,[ad] and (DZ)their doors were on the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. 6 For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. 7 And (EA)there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, (EB)fifty cubits long. 8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite (EC)the nave[ae] were (ED)a hundred cubits long. 9 Below these chambers was (EE)an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

10 In the thickness of (EF)the wall of the court, on the south[af] also, opposite (EG)the yard and opposite (EH)the building, there were (EI)chambers 11 with (EJ)a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits[ag] and arrangements and (EK)doors, 12 as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before (EL)the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.[ah]

13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite (EM)the yard are the holy chambers, (EN)where the priests who approach the Lord (EO)shall eat the (EP)most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—(EQ)the grain offering, (ER)the sin offering, and (ES)the guilt offering—for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court (ET)without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. (EU)They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”

15 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by (EV)the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. 16 He measured the east side with (EW)the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 17 He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 18 He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 19 Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had (EX)a wall around it, (EY)500 cubits long and (EZ)500 cubits broad, (FA)to make a separation between the holy and the common.

The Glory of the Lord Fills the Temple

43 Then he led me to (FB)the gate, the gate facing east. 2 And behold, (FC)the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And (FD)the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and (FE)the earth shone with his glory. 3 And (FF)the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen (FG)when he[ai] came to destroy the city, and just like (FH)the vision that I had seen (FI)by the Chebar canal. And (FJ)I fell on my face. 4 As (FK)the glory of the Lord (FL)entered the temple by the gate facing east, 5 (FM)the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into (FN)the inner court; and behold, (FO)the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

6 (FP)While the man was standing beside me, (FQ)I heard one speaking to me out of the temple, 7 and he said to me, (FR)“Son of man, this is (FS)the place of my throne and (FT)the place of the soles of my feet, (FU)where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more (FV)defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies[aj] of their kings at their high places,[ak] 8 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with (FW)only a wall between me and them. They have (FX)defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, (FY)and I will dwell in their midst forever.

10 “As for you, (FZ)son of man, (GA)describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan. 11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, (GB)make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, (GC)its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down (GD)in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out. 12 This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of (GE)the mountain (GF)all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

The Altar

13 “These are the measurements of (GG)the altar by cubits (the cubit being (GH)a cubit and a handbreadth):[al] its base shall be one cubit high[am] and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span[an] around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar: 14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; 15 and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, (GI)four horns. 16 The altar hearth shall be (GJ)square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad. 17 The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. (GK)The steps of the altar shall face east.”

18 And he said to me, (GL)“Son of man, thus says the Lord God: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and (GM)for throwing blood against it, 19 you shall give to (GN)the Levitical priests (GO)of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord God, (GP)a bull from the herd for a sin offering. 20 And (GQ)you shall take some of its blood and put it on (GR)the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon (GS)the rim all around. (GT)Thus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it. 21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and (GU)it shall be burned in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area. 22 And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull. 23 When you have finished (GV)purifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and (GW)a ram from the flock without blemish. 24 You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests (GX)shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord. 25 (GY)For seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided. 26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.[ao] 27 And when they have completed these days, then (GZ)from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your (HA)peace offerings, and (HB)I will accept you, declares the Lord God.”

The Gate for the Prince

44 Then he brought me (HC)back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, (HD)which faces east. And it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for (HE)the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut. 3 Only (HF)the prince may sit in it (HG)to eat bread before the Lord. He (HH)shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”

4 Then he brought me by way of (HI)the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, (HJ)the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord. And (HK)I fell on my face. 5 And the Lord said to me, (HL)“Son of man, mark well, (HM)see with your eyes, (HN)and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning (HO)all the statutes of the temple of the Lord and all its laws. And mark well (HP)the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary. 6 And say to (HQ)the rebellious house,[ap] to the (HR)house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: O house of Israel, (HS)enough of all your abominations, 7 in (HT)admitting foreigners, (HU)uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, (HV)profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You[aq] have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations. 8 And (HW)you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

9 “Thus says the Lord God: (HX)No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary. 10 But (HY)the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols (HZ)when Israel went astray, (IA)shall bear their punishment.[ar] 11 They shall be (IB)ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight (IC)at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and (ID)they shall stand before the people, to minister to them. 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols and became (IE)a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have (IF)sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment. 13 They (IG)shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but (IH)they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed. 14 Yet I will appoint them to keep (II)charge of the temple, (IJ)to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.

Rules for Levitical Priests

15 “But (IK)the Levitical priests, (IL)the sons of Zadok, who kept (IM)the charge of my sanctuary (IN)when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me (IO)to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me (IP)the fat and the blood, declares the Lord God. 16 They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach (IQ)my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear (IR)linen garments. They shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat. 19 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering (IS)and lay them in the holy chambers. And (IT)they shall put on other garments, (IU)lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments. 20 (IV)They shall not shave their heads or (IW)let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads. 21 (IX)No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22 (IY)They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. 23 (IZ)They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and (JA)show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. 24 (JB)In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and (JC)they shall keep my Sabbaths holy. 25 (JD)They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves. 26 (JE)After he[as] has become clean, they shall count seven days for him. 27 And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, (JF)into the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, (JG)he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord God.

28 (JH)“This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and (JI)you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. 29 (JJ)They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and (JK)every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 (JL)And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. (JM)You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, (JN)that a blessing may rest on your house. 31 (JO)The priests shall not eat of (JP)anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.

The Holy District

45 “When (JQ)you allot the land as an inheritance, (JR)you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits[at] long and 20,000[au] cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent. 2 (JS)Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for (JT)an open space around it. 3 And (JU)from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, (JV)in which shall be the sanctuary, (JW)the Most Holy Place. 4 (JX)It shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 (JY)Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.[av]

6 “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district (JZ)you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. (KA)It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

The Portion for the Prince

7 (KB)“And to (KC)the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary 8 of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And (KD)my princes shall no more oppress my people, but (KE)they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.

9 “Thus says the Lord God: (KF)Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease (KG)your evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.

10 (KH)“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.[aw] 11 The ephah and the bath shall be (KI)of the same measure, (KJ)the bath containing one tenth of a homer,[ax] and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 (KK)The shekel shall be twenty gerahs;[ay] twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.[az]

13 (KL)“This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, 14 and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor[ba] (the cor, like the homer, contains (KM)ten baths).[bb] 15 And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, (KN)to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God. 16 All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel. 17 (KO)It shall be the prince's duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.

18 “Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, (KP)on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and (KQ)purify the sanctuary. 19 (KR)The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it (KS)on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.

21 (KT)“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 On that day the prince (KU)shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. 23 And on (KV)the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and (KW)a male goat daily for a sin offering. 24 And (KX)he shall provide as (KY)a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin[bc] of oil to each ephah. 25 (KZ)In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, (LA)he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.

The Prince and the Feasts

46 “Thus says the Lord God: (LB)The gate of (LC)the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and (LD)on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 (LE)The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by (LF)the post of the gate. (LG)The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at (LH)the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. 3 (LI)The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. 4 (LJ)The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord (LK)on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. 5 And (LL)the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,[bd] and the grain offering with the lambs shall be (LM)as much as he is able, together with a hin[be] of oil to each ephah. 6 On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. 7 As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs (LN)as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. 8 (LO)When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

9 (LP)“When the people of the land (LQ)come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. 10 When they enter, (LR)the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

11 “At the feasts and the appointed festivals, (LS)the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs (LT)as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. 12 When the prince provides (LU)a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, (LV)the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings (LW)as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.

13 (LX)“You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. 14 And (LY)you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute. 15 Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for (LZ)a regular burnt offering.

16 “Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. 17 But if he makes a gift (MA)out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to (MB)the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. 18 (MC)The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, (MD)thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be (ME)scattered from his property.”

Boiling Places for Offerings

19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was (MF)at the side of the gate, to the north row of (MG)the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them. 20 And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests (MH)shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where (MI)they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so (MJ)transmit holiness to the people.”

21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court— 22 in the four corners of the court were small[bf] courts, forty cubits[bg] long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size. 23 On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around. 24 Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who (MK)minister at the temple (ML)shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”

Water Flowing from the Temple

47 Then he brought me back to (MM)the door of the temple, and behold, (MN)water was issuing from below (MO)the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of (MP)the altar. 2 Then he brought me out by way of (MQ)the north gate and led me around on the outside to (MR)the outer gate that faces toward the east; and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side.

3 Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, (MS)the man measured a thousand cubits,[bh] and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep. 4 Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep. 5 Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. 6 And he said to me, (MT)“Son of man, (MU)have you seen this?”

Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 7 As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river (MV)very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8 And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into (MW)the Arabah, and enters the sea;[bi] when the water flows into (MX)the sea, the water will become fresh.[bj] 9 And wherever the river goes,[bk] every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea[bl] may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. 10 Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From (MY)Engedi to (MZ)Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of (NA)the Great Sea.[bm] 11 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. 12 And on the banks, (NB)on both sides of the river, there will grow (NC)all kinds of trees for food. (ND)Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, (NE)but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and (NF)their leaves for healing.”

Division of the Land

13 Thus says the Lord God: “This is the boundary[bn] by which (NG)you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. (NH)Joseph shall have two portions. 14 And you shall divide equally what (NI)I swore (NJ)to give to your fathers. (NK)This land shall fall to you as your inheritance.

15 “This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from (NL)the Great Sea (NM)by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, and on to (NN)Zedad,[bo] 16 (NO)Berothah, Sibraim (which lies on the border between (NP)Damascus and (NQ)Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran. 17 So the boundary shall run from the sea to (NR)Hazar-enan, which is on the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north.[bp] This shall be the north side.[bq]

18 “On the east side, the boundary shall run between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between (NS)Gilead and the land of Israel; to (NT)the eastern sea and as far as Tamar.[br] This shall be the east side.

19 “On the south side, it shall run from (NU)Tamar as far as (NV)the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along (NW)the Brook of Egypt[bs] to (NX)the Great Sea. This shall be the south side.

20 “On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point (NY)opposite Lebo-hamath. This shall be the west side.

21 (NZ)“So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel. 22 (OA)You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and (OB)for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. (OC)They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 23 In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord God.

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:1 Hebrew brought me there
  2. Ezekiel 40:5 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; a handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters
  3. Ezekiel 40:6 Hebrew deep, and one threshold, one reed deep
  4. Ezekiel 40:14 Text uncertain; Hebrew And he made the jambs sixty cubits, and to the jamb of the court was the gateway all around
  5. Ezekiel 40:19 Hebrew distance from before the low gate before the inner court to the outside
  6. Ezekiel 40:19 Or cubits. So far the eastern gate; now to the northern gate
  7. Ezekiel 40:36 One manuscript (compare verses 29 and 33); most manuscripts lack were of the same size as the others
  8. Ezekiel 40:37 Septuagint, Vulgate (compare verses 26, 31, 34); Hebrew jambs
  9. Ezekiel 40:38 Hebrew at the jambs, the gates
  10. Ezekiel 40:43 Or shelves
  11. Ezekiel 40:44 Septuagint; Hebrew were chambers for singers
  12. Ezekiel 40:44 Hebrew lacks one
  13. Ezekiel 40:44 Septuagint; Hebrew east
  14. Ezekiel 40:46 Hebrew lacks alone
  15. Ezekiel 40:48 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks was fourteen cubits, and the sidewalls of the gate
  16. Ezekiel 40:49 Septuagint; Hebrew eleven
  17. Ezekiel 40:49 Septuagint; Hebrew and by steps that would go up to it
  18. Ezekiel 41:1 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  19. Ezekiel 41:1 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew tent
  20. Ezekiel 41:2 Hebrew its length
  21. Ezekiel 41:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and the breadth
  22. Ezekiel 41:6 Septuagint, compare 1 Kings 6:6; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  23. Ezekiel 41:15 The meaning of the Hebrew term is unknown; also verse 16
  24. Ezekiel 41:17 Hebrew were measurements
  25. Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks two cubits broad
  26. Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew length
  27. Ezekiel 41:25 The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown; also verse 26
  28. Ezekiel 42:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  29. Ezekiel 42:3 The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown; also verse 5
  30. Ezekiel 42:4 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew and a way of one cubit
  31. Ezekiel 42:8 Or temple
  32. Ezekiel 42:10 Septuagint; Hebrew east
  33. Ezekiel 42:11 Hebrew and all their exits
  34. Ezekiel 42:12 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
  35. Ezekiel 43:3 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts when I
  36. Ezekiel 43:7 Or the monuments; also verse 9
  37. Ezekiel 43:7 Or at their deaths
  38. Ezekiel 43:13 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; a handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters
  39. Ezekiel 43:13 Or its gutter shall be one cubit deep
  40. Ezekiel 43:13 A span was about 9 inches or 22 centimeters
  41. Ezekiel 43:26 Hebrew fill its hand
  42. Ezekiel 44:6 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks house
  43. Ezekiel 44:7 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew They
  44. Ezekiel 44:10 Or iniquity; also verse 12
  45. Ezekiel 44:26 That is, a priest
  46. Ezekiel 45:1 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  47. Ezekiel 45:1 Septuagint; Hebrew 10,000
  48. Ezekiel 45:5 Septuagint; Hebrew as their possession, twenty chambers
  49. Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah was about 3/5 of a bushel or 22 liters; a bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters
  50. Ezekiel 45:11 A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  51. Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
  52. Ezekiel 45:12 A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
  53. Ezekiel 45:14 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  54. Ezekiel 45:14 See Vulgate; Hebrew (ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer)
  55. Ezekiel 45:24 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
  56. Ezekiel 46:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
  57. Ezekiel 46:5 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
  58. Ezekiel 46:22 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  59. Ezekiel 46:22 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  60. Ezekiel 47:3 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  61. Ezekiel 47:8 That is, the Dead Sea
  62. Ezekiel 47:8 Hebrew will be healed; also verses 9, 11
  63. Ezekiel 47:9 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Hebrew the two rivers go
  64. Ezekiel 47:9 Hebrew lacks the waters of the sea
  65. Ezekiel 47:10 That is, the Mediterranean Sea; also verses 15, 19, 20
  66. Ezekiel 47:13 Probable reading; Hebrew The valley of the boundary
  67. Ezekiel 47:15 Septuagint; Hebrew the entrance of Zedad, Hamath
  68. Ezekiel 47:17 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  69. Ezekiel 47:17 Probable reading; Hebrew and as for the north side
  70. Ezekiel 47:18 Compare Syriac; Hebrew to the eastern sea you shall measure
  71. Ezekiel 47:19 Hebrew lacks of Egypt
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Ezekiel 40-47
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The Temple Area Restored

40 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city(A)—on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me(B) and he took me there. 2 In visions(C) of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain,(D) on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city. 3 He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze;(E) he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod(F) in his hand. 4 The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you,(G) for that is why you have been brought here. Tell(H) the people of Israel everything you see.(I)”

The East Gate to the Outer Court

5 I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits,[a] each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured(J) the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high.

6 Then he went to the east gate.(K) He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep. 7 The alcoves(L) for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits[b] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.

8 Then he measured the portico of the gateway; 9 it[c] was eight cubits[d] deep and its jambs were two cubits[e] thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.

10 Inside the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each side had the same measurements. 11 Then he measured the width of the entrance of the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits.[f] 12 In front of each alcove was a wall one cubit high, and the alcoves were six cubits square. 13 Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits[g] from one parapet opening to the opposite one. 14 He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway—sixty cubits.[h] The measurement was up to the portico[i] facing the courtyard.[j](M) 15 The distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits.[k] 16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.(N)

The Outer Court

17 Then he brought me into the outer court.(O) There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms(P) along the pavement.(Q) 18 It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court;(R) it was a hundred cubits[l](S) on the east side as well as on the north.

The North Gate

20 Then he measured the length and width of the north gate, leading into the outer court. 21 Its alcoves(T)—three on each side—its projecting walls and its portico(U) had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 22 Its openings, its portico(V) and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.(W) 23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured from one gate to the opposite one; it was a hundred cubits.(X)

The South Gate

24 Then he led me to the south side and I saw the south gate. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements(Y) as the others. 25 The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.(Z) 26 Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side.(AA) 27 The inner court(AB) also had a gate facing south, and he measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side; it was a hundred cubits.(AC)

The Gates to the Inner Court

28 Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements(AD) as the others. 29 Its alcoves,(AE) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.(AF) 30 (The porticoes(AG) of the gateways around the inner court were twenty-five cubits wide and five cubits deep.) 31 Its portico(AH) faced the outer court; palm trees decorated its jambs, and eight steps led up to it.(AI)

32 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements(AJ) as the others. 33 Its alcoves,(AK) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 34 Its portico(AL) faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.

35 Then he brought me to the north gate(AM) and measured it. It had the same measurements(AN) as the others, 36 as did its alcoves,(AO) its projecting walls and its portico, and it had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 37 Its portico[m](AP) faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.(AQ)

The Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

38 A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings(AR) were washed. 39 In the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings,(AS) sin offerings[n](AT) and guilt offerings(AU) were slaughtered.(AV) 40 By the outside wall of the portico of the gateway, near the steps at the entrance of the north gateway were two tables, and on the other side of the steps were two tables. 41 So there were four tables on one side of the gateway and four on the other—eight tables in all—on which the sacrifices were slaughtered. 42 There were also four tables of dressed stone(AW) for the burnt offerings, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit high.[o] On them were placed the utensils for slaughtering the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.(AX) 43 And double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth[p] long, were attached to the wall all around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.

The Rooms for the Priests

44 Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one[q] at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south[r] gate and facing north. 45 He said to me, “The room facing south is for the priests who guard the temple,(AY) 46 and the room facing north(AZ) is for the priests who guard the altar.(BA) These are the sons of Zadok,(BB) who are the only Levites who may draw near to the Lord to minister before him.(BC)”

47 Then he measured the court: It was square—a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.(BD)

The New Temple

48 He brought me to the portico of the temple(BE) and measured the jambs of the portico; they were five cubits wide on either side. The width of the entrance was fourteen cubits[s] and its projecting walls were[t] three cubits[u] wide on either side. 49 The portico(BF) was twenty cubits[v] wide, and twelve[w] cubits[x] from front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs,[y] and there were pillars(BG) on each side of the jambs.

41 Then the man brought me to the main hall(BH) and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits[z] on each side.[aa] 2 The entrance was ten cubits[ab] wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits[ac] wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.[ad](BI)

3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits[ae] wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits[af] wide. 4 And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall.(BJ) He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.(BK)”

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits[ag] wide. 6 The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty(BL) on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.(BM) 7 The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway(BN) went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.

8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits. 9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple 10 and the priests’ rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. 11 There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.

12 The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits[ah] wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.[ai]

13 Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits[aj] long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long. 14 The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.(BO)

15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries(BP) on each side; it was a hundred cubits.

The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court, 16 as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows(BQ) and galleries around the three of them—everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered.(BR) 17 In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary 18 were carved(BS) cherubim(BT) and palm trees.(BU) Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces:(BV) 19 the face of a human being toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple.(BW) 20 From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the main hall.

21 The main hall(BX) had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar. 22 There was a wooden altar(BY) three cubits[ak] high and two cubits square[al]; its corners, its base[am] and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table(BZ) that is before the Lord.” 23 Both the main hall(CA) and the Most Holy Place had double doors.(CB) 24 Each door had two leaves—two hinged leaves(CC) for each door. 25 And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico. 26 On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.(CD)

The Rooms for the Priests

42 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms(CE) opposite the temple courtyard(CF) and opposite the outer wall on the north side.(CG) 2 The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.[an] 3 Both in the section twenty cubits[ao] from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery(CH) faced gallery at the three levels.(CI) 4 In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits[ap] long.[aq] Their doors were on the north.(CJ) 5 Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building. 6 The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors. 7 There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits. 8 While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long. 9 The lower rooms had an entrance(CK) on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

10 On the south side[ar] along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard(CL) and opposite the outer wall, were rooms(CM) 11 with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north 12 were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.

13 Then he said to me, “The north(CN) and south rooms(CO) facing the temple courtyard(CP) are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings,(CQ) the sin offerings[as](CR) and the guilt offerings(CS)—for the place is holy.(CT) 14 Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments(CU) in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.(CV)”

15 When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate(CW) and measured the area all around: 16 He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.[at][au] 17 He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits[av] by the measuring rod. 18 He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. 19 Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. 20 So he measured(CX) the area(CY) on all four sides. It had a wall around it,(CZ) five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide,(DA) to separate the holy from the common.(DB)

God’s Glory Returns to the Temple

43 Then the man brought me to the gate facing east,(DC) 2 and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters,(DD) and the land was radiant with his glory.(DE) 3 The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he[aw] came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown. 4 The glory(DF) of the Lord entered the temple through the gate facing east.(DG) 5 Then the Spirit(DH) lifted me up(DI) and brought me into the inner court, and the glory(DJ) of the Lord filled the temple.(DK)

6 While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple. 7 He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne(DL) and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile(DM) my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[ax] for their kings at their death.[ay](DN) 8 When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger. 9 Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them forever.(DO)

10 “Son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed(DP) of their sins. Let them consider its perfection, 11 and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement, its exits and entrances—its whole design and all its regulations[az] and laws. Write these down before them so that they may be faithful to its design and follow all its regulations.(DQ)

12 “This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area(DR) on top of the mountain will be most holy.(DS) Such is the law of the temple.

The Great Altar Restored

13 “These are the measurements of the altar(DT) in long cubits,[ba] that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span[bb] around the edge. And this is the height of the altar: 14 From the gutter on the ground up to the lower ledge that goes around the altar it is two cubits high, and the ledge is a cubit wide.[bc] From this lower ledge to the upper ledge that goes around the altar it is four cubits high, and that ledge is also a cubit wide.[bd] 15 Above that, the altar hearth(DU) is four cubits high, and four horns(DV) project upward from the hearth. 16 The altar hearth is square, twelve cubits[be] long and twelve cubits wide.(DW) 17 The upper ledge(DX) also is square, fourteen cubits[bf] long and fourteen cubits wide. All around the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a rim of half a cubit.[bg] The steps(DY) of the altar face east.(DZ)”

18 Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings(EA) and splashing blood(EB) against the altar when it is built: 19 You are to give a young bull(EC) as a sin offering[bh] to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok,(ED) who come near(EE) to minister before me, declares the Sovereign Lord. 20 You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar(EF) and on the four corners of the upper ledge(EG) and all around the rim, and so purify the altar(EH) and make atonement for it. 21 You are to take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the designated part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.(EI)

22 “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull. 23 When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.(EJ) 24 You are to offer them before the Lord, and the priests are to sprinkle salt(EK) on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the Lord.

25 “For seven days(EL) you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.(EM) 26 For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; thus they will dedicate it. 27 At the end of these days, from the eighth day(EN) on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings(EO) and fellowship offerings(EP) on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

The Priesthood Restored

44 Then the man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east,(EQ) and it was shut. 2 The Lord said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It must not be opened; no one may enter through it.(ER) It is to remain shut because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it. 3 The prince himself is the only one who may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence(ES) of the Lord. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.(ET)”

4 Then the man brought me by way of the north gate(EU) to the front of the temple. I looked and saw the glory of the Lord filling the temple(EV) of the Lord, and I fell facedown.(EW)

5 The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look carefully, listen closely and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the regulations and instructions regarding the temple of the Lord. Give attention to the entrance(EX) to the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary.(EY) 6 Say to rebellious Israel,(EZ) ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough of your detestable practices, people of Israel! 7 In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart(FA) and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.(FB) 8 Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.(FC) 9 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the foreigners who live among the Israelites.(FD)

10 “‘The Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray(FE) and who wandered from me after their idols must bear the consequences of their sin.(FF) 11 They may serve in my sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and serving in it; they may slaughter the burnt offerings(FG) and sacrifices for the people and stand before the people and serve them.(FH) 12 But because they served them in the presence of their idols and made the people of Israel fall(FI) into sin, therefore I have sworn with uplifted hand(FJ) that they must bear the consequences of their sin, declares the Sovereign Lord.(FK) 13 They are not to come near to serve me as priests or come near any of my holy things or my most holy offerings; they must bear the shame(FL) of their detestable practices.(FM) 14 And I will appoint them to guard the temple for all the work that is to be done in it.(FN)

15 “‘But the Levitical priests, who are descendants of Zadok(FO) and who guarded my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me; they are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of fat(FP) and blood, declares the Sovereign Lord.(FQ) 16 They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are to come near my table(FR) to minister before me and serve me as guards.(FS)

17 “‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they are to wear linen clothes;(FT) they must not wear any woolen garment while ministering at the gates of the inner court or inside the temple. 18 They are to wear linen turbans(FU) on their heads and linen undergarments(FV) around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.(FW) 19 When they go out into the outer court where the people are, they are to take off the clothes they have been ministering in and are to leave them in the sacred rooms, and put on other clothes, so that the people are not consecrated(FX) through contact with their garments.(FY)

20 “‘They must not shave(FZ) their heads or let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.(GA) 21 No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.(GB) 22 They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.(GC) 23 They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common(GD) and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.(GE)

24 “‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges(GF) and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals,(GG) and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.(GH)

25 “‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.(GI) 26 After he is cleansed, he must wait seven days.(GJ) 27 On the day he goes into the inner court of the sanctuary(GK) to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer a sin offering[bi](GL) for himself, declares the Sovereign Lord.

28 “‘I am to be the only inheritance(GM) the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession. 29 They will eat(GN) the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted[bj] to the Lord(GO) will belong to them.(GP) 30 The best of all the firstfruits(GQ) and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal(GR) so that a blessing(GS) may rest on your household.(GT) 31 The priests must not eat anything, whether bird or animal, found dead(GU) or torn by wild animals.(GV)

Israel Fully Restored

45 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance,(GW) you are to present to the Lord a portion of the land as a sacred district, 25,000 cubits[bk] long and 20,000[bl] cubits[bm] wide; the entire area will be holy.(GX) 2 Of this, a section 500 cubits[bn] square(GY) is to be for the sanctuary, with 50 cubits[bo] around it for open land. 3 In the sacred district, measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits[bp] wide. In it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. 4 It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests,(GZ) who minister in the sanctuary and who draw near to minister before the Lord. It will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place for the sanctuary.(HA) 5 An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to live in.[bq](HB)

6 “‘You are to give the city as its property an area 5,000 cubits[br] wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion; it will belong to all Israel.(HC)

7 “‘The prince will have the land bordering each side of the area formed by the sacred district and the property of the city. It will extend westward from the west side and eastward from the east side, running lengthwise from the western to the eastern border parallel to one of the tribal portions.(HD) 8 This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.(HE)

9 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression(HF) and do what is just and right.(HG) Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. 10 You are to use accurate scales,(HH) an accurate ephah[bs](HI) and an accurate bath.[bt] 11 The ephah(HJ) and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both. 12 The shekel[bu] is to consist of twenty gerahs.(HK) Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.[bv]

13 “‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah[bw] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah[bx] from each homer of barley. 14 The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath[by] from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer). 15 Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings(HL) and fellowship offerings to make atonement(HM) for the people, declares the Sovereign Lord. 16 All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel. 17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons(HN) and the Sabbaths(HO)—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,[bz] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.(HP)

18 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month(HQ) on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect(HR) and purify the sanctuary.(HS) 19 The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge(HT) of the altar(HU) and on the gateposts of the inner court. 20 You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally(HV) or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.

21 “‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover,(HW) a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast. 22 On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.(HX) 23 Every day during the seven days of the festival he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams(HY) without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord, and a male goat for a sin offering.(HZ) 24 He is to provide as a grain offering(IA) an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin[ca] of olive oil for each ephah.(IB)

25 “‘During the seven days of the festival,(IC) which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.(ID)

46 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court(IE) facing east(IF) is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon(IG) it is to be opened. 2 The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico(IH) of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to sacrifice his burnt offering(II) and his fellowship offerings. He is to bow down in worship at the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening.(IJ) 3 On the Sabbaths(IK) and New Moons the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the Lord at the entrance of that gateway.(IL) 4 The burnt offering the prince brings to the Lord on the Sabbath day is to be six male lambs and a ram, all without defect. 5 The grain offering given with the ram is to be an ephah,[cb] and the grain offering with the lambs is to be as much as he pleases, along with a hin[cc] of olive oil for each ephah.(IM) 6 On the day of the New Moon(IN) he is to offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect.(IO) 7 He is to provide as a grain offering one ephah with the bull, one ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wants to give, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.(IP) 8 When the prince enters, he is to go in through the portico(IQ) of the gateway, and he is to come out the same way.(IR)

9 “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals,(IS) whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which they entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate. 10 The prince is to be among them, going in when they go in and going out when they go out.(IT) 11 At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.(IU)

12 “‘When the prince provides(IV) a freewill offering(IW) to the Lord—whether a burnt offering or fellowship offerings—the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.(IX)

13 “‘Every day you are to provide a year-old lamb without defect for a burnt offering to the Lord; morning by morning(IY) you shall provide it.(IZ) 14 You are also to provide with it morning by morning a grain offering, consisting of a sixth of an ephah[cd] with a third of a hin[ce] of oil(JA) to moisten the flour. The presenting of this grain offering to the Lord is a lasting ordinance.(JB) 15 So the lamb and the grain offering and the oil shall be provided morning by morning for a regular(JC) burnt offering.(JD)

16 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, it will also belong to his descendants; it is to be their property by inheritance.(JE) 17 If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom;(JF) then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs. 18 The prince must not take(JG) any of the inheritance(JH) of the people, driving them off their property. He is to give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that not one of my people will be separated from their property.’”

19 Then the man brought me through the entrance(JI) at the side of the gate to the sacred rooms facing north,(JJ) which belonged to the priests, and showed me a place at the western end. 20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering[cf] and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating(JK) the people.”(JL)

21 He then brought me to the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw in each corner another court. 22 In the four corners of the outer court were enclosed[cg] courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide;[ch] each of the courts in the four corners was the same size. 23 Around the inside of each of the four courts was a ledge of stone, with places for fire built all around under the ledge. 24 He said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple are to cook the sacrifices of the people.”

The River From the Temple

47 The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water(JM) coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.(JN) 2 He then brought me out through the north gate(JO) and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side.

3 As the man went eastward with a measuring line(JP) in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits[ci] and then led me through water that was ankle-deep. 4 He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist. 5 He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river(JQ) that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.(JR) 6 He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?”

Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 7 When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.(JS) 8 He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah,[cj](JT) where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh.(JU) 9 Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.(JV) 10 Fishermen(JW) will stand along the shore; from En Gedi(JX) to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets.(JY) The fish will be of many kinds(JZ)—like the fish of the Mediterranean Sea.(KA) 11 But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.(KB) 12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river.(KC) Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit(KD) fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary(KE) flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.(KF)”

The Boundaries of the Land

13 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These are the boundaries(KG) of the land that you will divide among the twelve tribes of Israel as their inheritance, with two portions for Joseph.(KH) 14 You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with uplifted hand to give it to your ancestors, this land will become your inheritance.(KI)

15 “This is to be the boundary of the land:(KJ)

“On the north side it will run from the Mediterranean Sea(KK) by the Hethlon road(KL) past Lebo Hamath to Zedad, 16 Berothah[ck](KM) and Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath),(KN) as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran. 17 The boundary will extend from the sea to Hazar Enan,[cl] along the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.(KO)

18 “On the east side the boundary will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Dead Sea and as far as Tamar.[cm] This will be the eastern boundary.(KP)

19 “On the south side it will run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah Kadesh,(KQ) then along the Wadi of Egypt(KR) to the Mediterranean Sea.(KS) This will be the southern boundary.

20 “On the west side, the Mediterranean Sea will be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo Hamath.(KT) This will be the western boundary.(KU)

21 “You are to distribute this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. 22 You are to allot it as an inheritance(KV) for yourselves and for the foreigners(KW) residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.(KX) 23 In whatever tribe a foreigner resides, there you are to give them their inheritance,” declares the Sovereign Lord.(KY)

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters; also in verse 12. The long cubit of about 21 inches or about 53 centimeters is the basic unit of measurement of length throughout chapters 40–48.
  2. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verse 48
  3. Ezekiel 40:9 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts gateway facing the temple; it was one rod deep. 9 Then he measured the portico of the gateway; it
  4. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 14 feet or about 4.2 meters
  5. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 3 1/2 feet or about 1 meter
  6. Ezekiel 40:11 That is, about 18 feet wide and 23 feet long or about 5.3 meters wide and 6.9 meters long
  7. Ezekiel 40:13 That is, about 44 feet or about 13 meters; also in verses 21, 25, 29, 30, 33 and 36
  8. Ezekiel 40:14 That is, about 105 feet or about 32 meters
  9. Ezekiel 40:14 Septuagint; Hebrew projecting wall
  10. Ezekiel 40:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
  11. Ezekiel 40:15 That is, about 88 feet or about 27 meters; also in verses 21, 25, 29, 33 and 36
  12. Ezekiel 40:19 That is, about 175 feet or about 53 meters; also in verses 23, 27 and 47
  13. Ezekiel 40:37 Septuagint (see also verses 31 and 34); Hebrew jambs
  14. Ezekiel 40:39 Or purification offerings
  15. Ezekiel 40:42 That is, about 2 2/3 feet long and wide and 21 inches high or about 80 centimeters long and wide and 53 centimeters high
  16. Ezekiel 40:43 That is, about 3 1/2 inches or about 9 centimeters
  17. Ezekiel 40:44 Septuagint; Hebrew were rooms for singers, which were
  18. Ezekiel 40:44 Septuagint; Hebrew east
  19. Ezekiel 40:48 That is, about 25 feet or about 7.4 meters
  20. Ezekiel 40:48 Septuagint; Hebrew entrance was
  21. Ezekiel 40:48 That is, about 5 1/4 feet or about 1.6 meters
  22. Ezekiel 40:49 That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters
  23. Ezekiel 40:49 Septuagint; Hebrew eleven
  24. Ezekiel 40:49 That is, about 21 feet or about 6.4 meters
  25. Ezekiel 40:49 Hebrew; Septuagint Ten steps led up to it
  26. Ezekiel 41:1 That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters; also in verses 3, 5 and 8
  27. Ezekiel 41:1 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts side, the width of the tent
  28. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 18 feet or about 5.3 meters
  29. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verses 9, 11 and 12
  30. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 70 feet long and 35 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 11 meters wide
  31. Ezekiel 41:3 That is, about 3 1/2 feet or about 1.1 meters; also in verse 22
  32. Ezekiel 41:3 That is, about 12 feet or about 3.7 meters
  33. Ezekiel 41:5 That is, about 7 feet or about 2.1 meters
  34. Ezekiel 41:12 That is, about 123 feet or about 37 meters
  35. Ezekiel 41:12 That is, about 158 feet or about 48 meters
  36. Ezekiel 41:13 That is, about 175 feet or about 53 meters; also in verses 14 and 15
  37. Ezekiel 41:22 That is, about 5 1/4 feet or about 1.5 meters
  38. Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew long
  39. Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew length
  40. Ezekiel 42:2 That is, about 175 feet long and 88 feet wide or about 53 meters long and 27 meters wide
  41. Ezekiel 42:3 That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters
  42. Ezekiel 42:4 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew and one cubit
  43. Ezekiel 42:4 That is, about 18 feet wide and 175 feet long or about 5.3 meters wide and 53 meters long
  44. Ezekiel 42:10 Septuagint; Hebrew Eastward
  45. Ezekiel 42:13 Or purification offerings
  46. Ezekiel 42:16 See Septuagint of verse 17; Hebrew rods; also in verses 18 and 19.
  47. Ezekiel 42:16 Five hundred cubits equal about 875 feet or about 265 meters; also in verses 17, 18 and 19.
  48. Ezekiel 42:17 Septuagint; Hebrew rods
  49. Ezekiel 43:3 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts I
  50. Ezekiel 43:7 Or the memorial monuments; also in verse 9
  51. Ezekiel 43:7 Or their high places
  52. Ezekiel 43:11 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts regulations and its whole design
  53. Ezekiel 43:13 That is, about 21 inches or about 53 centimeters; also in verses 14 and 17. The long cubit is the basic unit for linear measurement throughout Ezekiel 40–48.
  54. Ezekiel 43:13 That is, about 11 inches or about 27 centimeters
  55. Ezekiel 43:14 That is, about 3 1/2 feet high and 1 3/4 feet wide or about 105 centimeters high and 53 centimeters wide
  56. Ezekiel 43:14 That is, about 7 feet high and 1 3/4 feet wide or about 2.1 meters high and 53 centimeters wide
  57. Ezekiel 43:16 That is, about 21 feet or about 6.4 meters
  58. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 25 feet or about 7.4 meters
  59. Ezekiel 43:17 That is, about 11 inches or about 27 centimeters
  60. Ezekiel 43:19 Or purification offering; also in verses 21, 22 and 25
  61. Ezekiel 44:27 Or purification offering; also in verse 29
  62. Ezekiel 44:29 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord.
  63. Ezekiel 45:1 That is, about 8 miles or about 13 kilometers; also in verses 3, 5 and 6
  64. Ezekiel 45:1 Septuagint (see also verses 3 and 5 and 48:9); Hebrew 10,000
  65. Ezekiel 45:1 That is, about 6 1/2 miles or about 11 kilometers
  66. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, about 875 feet or about 265 meters
  67. Ezekiel 45:2 That is, about 88 feet or about 27 meters
  68. Ezekiel 45:3 That is, about 3 1/3 miles or about 5.3 kilometers; also in verse 5
  69. Ezekiel 45:5 Septuagint; Hebrew temple; they will have as their possession 20 rooms
  70. Ezekiel 45:6 That is, about 1 2/3 miles or about 2.7 kilometers
  71. Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 bushel or about 22 liters.
  72. Ezekiel 45:10 A bath was a liquid measure equaling about 6 gallons or about 22 liters.
  73. Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel weighed about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams.
  74. Ezekiel 45:12 That is, 60 shekels; the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels were about 1 1/2 pounds or about 690 grams.
  75. Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms
  76. Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
  77. Ezekiel 45:14 That is, about 2 1/2 quarts or about 2.2 liters
  78. Ezekiel 45:17 Or purification offerings; also in verses 19, 22, 23 and 25
  79. Ezekiel 45:24 That is, about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters
  80. Ezekiel 46:5 That is, probably about 35 pounds or about 16 kilograms; also in verses 7 and 11
  81. Ezekiel 46:5 That is, about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters; also in verses 7 and 11
  82. Ezekiel 46:14 That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms
  83. Ezekiel 46:14 That is, about 1 1/2 quarts or about 1.3 liters
  84. Ezekiel 46:20 Or purification offering
  85. Ezekiel 46:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  86. Ezekiel 46:22 That is, about 70 feet long and 53 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 16 meters wide
  87. Ezekiel 47:3 That is, about 1,700 feet or about 530 meters
  88. Ezekiel 47:8 Or the Jordan Valley
  89. Ezekiel 47:16 See Septuagint and 48:1; Hebrew road to go into Zedad, 16 Hamath, Berothah.
  90. Ezekiel 47:17 Hebrew Enon, a variant of Enan
  91. Ezekiel 47:18 See Syriac; Hebrew Israel. You will measure to the Dead Sea.
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