以西結書 43
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
耶和華的榮光充滿聖殿
43 後來，那人帶我來到東門， 2 只見以色列上帝的榮光從東方而來，祂的聲音如澎湃的洪濤，大地也因祂的榮耀而發出光芒。 3 這異象如同我從前在祂毀滅耶路撒冷時看見的異象，也像我在迦巴魯河邊看見的異象，我便俯伏在地。 4 耶和華的榮光從東門進入聖殿。 5 上帝的靈把我舉起，帶我進入內院，耶和華的榮光充滿聖殿。
6 那人仍然站在我身旁，我聽見有一位從殿中對我說： 7 「人子啊，這裡是我的寶座，是我踏腳的地方，我要與以色列人永遠同住。以色列的君民必不再因不忠貞或在高處為他們死去的君王立碑而玷污我的聖名。 8 他們不再在我聖殿旁邊建廟宇，使它們的門檻和門柱緊挨著我的門檻和門柱，以致我與它們只有一牆之隔。他們曾經行可憎的事，玷污我的聖名，所以我發怒消滅他們。 9 現在，他們要停止祭拜偶像和他們死去的君王，我就永遠住在他們當中。
10 「人子啊，你要向以色列人描述所看見的聖殿，讓他們思考聖殿的設計，使他們為自己的罪惡而羞愧。 11 他們若為自己的行為感到羞愧，你就把殿的構造、出入口等整個設計，以及殿中的一切律例和法則告訴他們，並且當著他們的面寫下來，讓他們忠於設計，遵守律例。 12 殿所在的山頂周圍都是至聖之地，這是有關殿的法則。
13 「以下是祭壇的尺寸，底槽深五十釐米，與四邊的寬度相等，周圍環繞著一條二十二釐米高的邊框， 14 從底座到下層臺座高一米，邊寬五十釐米，下層臺座到上一層高二米，邊寬五十釐米。 15 最高一層是祭台，高二米，祭台上的四角向上突起。 16 祭台是方形的，長寬各六米， 17 下面的臺座是方形的，長寬各七米，周圍環繞著一條二十五釐米高的邊框。底座四圍的邊寬五十釐米，上祭台的石階在東面。」
18 祂對我說：「人子啊，主耶和華這樣說，『祭壇建成後，要按以下的規矩在上面獻燔祭和灑血。 19 你要將一頭公牛犢作為贖罪祭給撒督後裔中做祭司的利未人，他們可以前來事奉我。這是主耶和華說的。 20 取些公牛犢的血抹在祭壇的四角、臺座的四角和四邊，使祭壇潔淨，為祭壇贖罪， 21 並把贖罪用的公牛犢拿到聖所外指定的地方焚燒。 22 第二天，你要獻上一頭毫無殘疾的公山羊作贖罪祭，就像獻公牛一樣，使祭壇潔淨。 23 祭壇潔淨後，你要取來一頭毫無殘疾的公牛犢和一隻毫無殘疾的公綿羊， 24 祭司要把鹽撒在祭牲上，作為燔祭獻在耶和華面前。 25 一連七天，每天都要獻上一隻公山羊、一頭公牛犢和一隻公綿羊作贖罪祭，都不可有殘疾。 26 在這七天之內，他們要為祭壇贖罪，使壇潔淨，成為聖壇。 27 從第八天開始，祭司要在祭壇上獻你們的燔祭和平安祭，我必悅納你們。這是主耶和華說的。』」
Ezekiel 43
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord Will Live Among His People
43 The man led me to the east gate. 2 There the Glory of the God of Israel came from the east. God’s voice was loud like the sound of the sea. The ground was bright with the light from the Glory of God. 3 The vision that I saw was like the vision I saw by the Kebar Canal. I bowed with my face to the ground. 4 The Glory of the Lord came into the Temple through the east gate.
5 Then the Spirit[a] picked me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. The Glory of the Lord filled the Temple. 6 I heard someone speaking to me from inside the Temple. The man was still standing beside me. 7 The voice from the Temple said to me, “Son of man,[b] this is the place with my throne and footstool. I will live in this place among the people of Israel forever. The family of Israel will not ruin my holy name again. The kings and their people will not bring shame to my name by committing sexual sins[c] or by burying the dead bodies of their kings in this place. 8 They will not bring shame to my name by putting their threshold next to my threshold, and their doorposts next to my doorposts. In the past, only a wall separated them from me. So they brought shame to my name every time they sinned and did those terrible things. That is why I became angry and destroyed them. 9 Now let them take their sexual sins and the dead bodies of their kings far away from me. Then I will live among them forever.
10 “Now, son of man, tell the family of Israel about the Temple. Then, when they learn about the plans for the Temple, they will be ashamed of their sins. 11 And they will be ashamed of all the bad things they have done. Let them know the design of the Temple. Let them know how it should be built, where the entrances and exits are, and all the designs on it. Teach them about all its rules and all its laws. Write these things for everyone to see so that they can obey all the laws and rules for the Temple. 12 This is the law of the Temple: The whole area surrounding it on the top of the mountain is most holy. This is the law of the Temple.
The Altar
13 “These are the measurements of the altar in cubits using the long measurement[d]: There was a gutter all the way around the base of the altar. It was 1 cubit[e] deep, and each side was 1 cubit wide. There was a rim around the edge 1 span[f] high. This is how tall the altar was: 14 From the ground to the lower ledge, the base measured 2 cubits.[g] It was 1 cubit wide. It measured 4 cubits[h] from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge. It was 2 cubits wide. 15 The place for the fire on the altar was 4 cubits high. The four corners were shaped like horns. 16 The place for the fire on the altar was 12 cubits[i] long by 12 cubits wide. It was perfectly square. 17 The ledge was also square, 14 cubits[j] long by 14 cubits wide. The border around it was 1/2 cubit[k] wide. (The gutter around the base was 1 cubit wide.) The steps going up to the altar were on the east side.”
18 Then the man said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: ‘These are the rules for the altar: At the time you build the altar, use these rules to offer burnt offerings and to sprinkle blood on it. 19 You will give a young bull as a sin offering to the men from Zadok’s family. These men are the priests from the tribe of Levi. They are the men who serve me by bringing the offerings to me.’” This is what the Lord God said. 20 “You will take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the altar’s four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it. In this way you will make the altar pure. 21 Then take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the proper place in the Temple area, outside the Temple building.
22 “On the second day you will offer a male goat that has nothing wrong with it. It will be for a sin offering. The priests will make the altar pure the same way they made it pure with the bull. 23 When you have finished making the altar pure, you will offer a young bull that has nothing wrong with it and a ram from the flock that has nothing wrong with it. 24 Then you will offer them before the Lord. The priests will sprinkle salt on them. Then they will offer the bull and ram up as a burnt offering to the Lord. 25 You will prepare a goat every day for seven days for a sin offering. Also, you will prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock. These animals must have nothing wrong with them. 26 For seven days, the priests will make the altar pure and ready for use in worshiping God. 27 On the eighth day, and every day after that, the priests must offer your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you.” This is what the Lord God said.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 43:5 Spirit Or “spirit” or “wind.”
- Ezekiel 43:7 Son of man This was usually just a way of saying “a person” or “a human being.” Here, it is a way of addressing Ezekiel. Also in verses 10, 18.
- Ezekiel 43:7 sexual sins This might also mean “turning away from God and being unfaithful to him.”
- Ezekiel 43:13 long measurement Literally, “a cubit and a handbreadth.” This cubit equals 20 5/8" (51.83 cm).
- Ezekiel 43:13 1 cubit 20 3/8" (51.83 cm).
- Ezekiel 43:13 1 span The distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, about 9" (23 cm).
- Ezekiel 43:14 2 cubits 3' 4 13/16" (104 cm). Also in verse 17.
- Ezekiel 43:14 4 cubits 6' 9 5/8" (2.1 m).
- Ezekiel 43:16 12 cubits 20' 4 7/8" (6.22 m).
- Ezekiel 43:17 14 cubits 23' 9 11/16" (7.26 m).
- Ezekiel 43:17 1/2 cubit 10 3/16" (25.92 cm).
Ezekiel 43
King James Version
43 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.
20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
24 And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord God.
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