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Rooms for Sacrificial Preparations

38 And a chamber with its doorway was in[a] the pilasters at the gates,[b] and there they rinsed off[c] the burnt offering. 39 And in the portico of the gate were two tables on each side[d] to slaughter the burnt offering on them and the sin offering and the guilt offering. 40 And on the outer side as one goes up to the doorway of the gate to the north were two tables, and on the other side, which is toward the portico of the gate, were two tables. 41 On each side of the gate were four tables,[e] eight tables in all, and on them they slaughtered sacrifices. 42 And four tables were for the burnt offering, and made of dressed stones, one cubit and a half[f] long and one cubit and a half wide and one cubit[g] high was their measurements,[h] and they placed the objects[i] with which they slaughtered the burnt offering on them and the sacrifice. 43 And there were double-pronged hooks, one handbreadth in width, put in place in the house[j] all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:38 Or “set among”
  2. Ezekiel 40:38 Or “gate”
  3. Ezekiel 40:38 Or “washed”
  4. Ezekiel 40:39 Literally “were two tables from here and two tables from here”
  5. Ezekiel 40:41 Literally “four tables from here and four tables from here”
  6. Ezekiel 40:42 That is, 31.5 inches
  7. Ezekiel 40:42 That is, 21 inches
  8. Ezekiel 40:42 Literally “wasto them
  9. Ezekiel 40:42 Or “instruments/utensils”
  10. Ezekiel 40:43 Or “inside”

38 At that gate, there was a room with an entrance in the arches for washing the entirely burned offering, 39 and inside the porch on each side of the gate were two tables where the entirely burned offerings, the purification offerings, and the compensation offerings were slaughtered. 40 Outside, two pairs of tables flanked the entrance of the north gate at both ends, at the steps on one end and the porch on the other. 41 There were four tables on each side of the gate, eight tables in all, for preparing the animal offerings. 42 The four tables that were used for the entirely burned offering as well as for the communal sacrifices were made of hewn stone. Each was twenty-seven inches square and eighteen inches high. Equipment used in the ritual slaughter was set on them. 43 Hooks,[a] three inches wide, were securely fixed all the way around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:43 Heb uncertain