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.
Ezek.44
[1] Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the
east; and it was shut.
[2] Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened,
and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it
shall be shut.
[3] It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall
enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
[4] Then brought
he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD
filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
[5] And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark
well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the