Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

38 There was a chamber whose door opened into the gate’s portico.[a] The burnt offering was to be washed there.(A) 39 Inside the gate’s portico there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering,(B) and guilt offering.(C) 40 Outside, as one approaches the entrance of the north gate, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico. 41 So there were four tables inside the gate and four outside, eight tables in all on which the slaughtering was to be done. 42 There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering,(D) each 31½ inches[b] long, 31½ inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them. 43 There were three-inch[c] hooks[d] fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:38 Text emended; MT reads door was by the jambs, at the gates
  2. 40:42 Lit one and a half cubits
  3. 40:43 Lit one handbreadth
  4. 40:43 Or ledges

38 There was (A)a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate,[a] (B)where the burnt offering was to be washed. 39 And in the vestibule of the gate were two (C)tables on either side, on which the (D)burnt offering and the (E)sin offering and the (F)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 (G)Four tables were on either side of the gate, eight tables, (H)on which to slaughter. 42 And there were four tables (I)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 (J)burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered. 43 And hooks,[b] a handbreadth long, were fastened all around within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:38 Hebrew at the jambs, the gates
  2. Ezekiel 40:43 Or shelves