Ezekiel 40:38-43
Expanded Bible
Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices
38 There was a room with a door that opened onto the ·porch [portico] of the inner north gateway. ·In this room the priests washed animals for the burnt offerings [L …where the burnt offering was washed; Lev. 1:1–17]. 39 There were two tables on each side of the ·porch [portico], on which animals for burnt offerings, ·sin [or purification] offerings [Lev. 4:3], and ·penalty [guilt; reparation] offerings [Lev. 5:14—6:7] were killed. 40 Outside, by each side wall of the ·porch [portico], at the entrance to the north gateway, were two more tables. 41 So there were four tables inside the gateway, and four tables outside. In all there were eight tables on which ·the priests killed animals for sacrifices [L to slaughter]. 42 There were four tables made of cut stone for the burnt offering [Lev. 1:1–17]. These tables were ·about three feet [L a cubit and a half] long, ·three feet [L a cubit and a half] wide, and ·about two feet [L a cubit] high. On these tables the priests put their tools which they used to kill animals for burnt offerings and the other sacrifices. 43 Double shelves[a] ·three inches [L one handbreadth] wide were put up on all the walls. The flesh for the offering was put on the tables.
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- Ezekiel 40:43 shelves Aramaic, Greek and Syriac copies read “shelves.” Hebrew copies read “hooks.”
Ezekiel 40:38-43
Amplified Bible
38 A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars of the gates; there the burnt offering was to be washed. 39 In the porch (portico) of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering. 40 On the outer [a]side, as one went up to the [b]gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other [c]side of the porch of the gate were two tables. 41 Four tables were on each [d]side next to the gate; [a total of] eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices. 42 Moreover, there were four tables of hewn stone (ashlar) for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43 The double hooks, one hand width in length were installed in the [e]house all around. The meat of the offering was [to be placed] on the tables.
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- Ezekiel 40:40 Lit shoulder.
- Ezekiel 40:40 Lit the entrance of the gate.
- Ezekiel 40:40 Lit shoulder.
- Ezekiel 40:41 Lit shoulder.
- Ezekiel 40:43 Possibly the kitchen area.
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