43:1 Moreover he brought me to the gate
looking eastward, and led me forth.
43:2 And, behold, the glory of the Elohim of Israel came by the eastern way;
and [there was] a voice of an army, as the sound of many redoubling [their
shouts], and the earth shone like light from the glory round about.
43:3 And the vision which I saw was like the vision which I saw when I went
in to anoint the city: and the vision of the chariot which I saw was like
the vision which I saw at the river Chobar; and I fell upon my face.
43:4 And the glory of Yehovah came into the house, by the way of the gate
looking eastward.
43:5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
behold, the house of Yehovah was full of glory.
43:6 And I stood, and behold [there was] a voice out of the house of one
speaking to me, and a man stood near me,
43:7 and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne,
and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the
midst of the house of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more
profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by
the murders of [their] princes in the midst of them;
43:8 when they set my door-way by their door-way, and my thresholds near to
their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them,
and they profaned my holy Name with their iniquities which they wrought: and
I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.
43:9 And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of
their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
43:10 And thou, son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they
may cease from their sins; and [shew] its aspect and the arrangement of it.
43:11 And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have
done: and thou shalt describe the house, and its entrances, and the plan
thereof, and all its ordinances, and thou shalt make known to them all the
regulations of it, and describe [them] before them: and they shall keep all
my commandments, and all my ordinances, and do them.
43:12 And thou shalt shew the plan of the house on the top of the mountain:
all its limits round about [shall be] most holy.
43:13 And these are the measures of the altar by the cubit of a cubit and a
span, the cavity [shall be] a cubit deep, and a cubit shall be the breadth,
and the border on the rim of it round about shall be a span: and this [shall
be] the height of the altar
43:14 from the bottom at the commencement of the hollow part to this great
mercy-seat, from beneath was two cubits, and the breadth was a cubit; and
from the little mercy-seat to the great mercy-seat, four cubits, and the
breadth was a cubit.
43:15 And the altar [shall be] four cubits; and from the altar and above the
horns a cubit.
43:16 And the altar [shall be] of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve
cubits [in breadth], square upon its four sides.
43:17 And the mercy-seat [shall be] fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen
cubits in breadth on its four sides; and [there shall be] a border to it
carried round about it of half a cubit; and the rim of it [shall be] a cubit
round about; and the steps thereof looking eastward.
43:18 And he said to me, Son of man, thus saith Yehovah Elohim of Israel;
These are the ordinances of the altar in the day of its being made, to offer
upon it whole-burnt-offerings, and to pour blood upon it.
43:19 And thou shalt appoint to the priests the Levites of the seed of
Sadduc, that draw nigh to me, saith Yehovah Elohim, to minister to me, a calf
of the heard for a sin-offering.
43:20 And they shall take of its blood, and shall put [it] on the four horns
of the altar, and upon the four corners of the propitiatory, and upon the
base round about, and they shall make atonement for it.
43:21 And they shall take the calf of the sin-offering, and it shall be
consumed by fire in the separate place of the house, outside the sanctuary.
43:22 And on the second day they shall take two kids of the goats without
blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall make atonement for the altar, as
they made atonement with the calf.
43:23 And after they have finished the atonement, they shall bring an
unblemished calf of the herd, and an unblemished ram of the flock.
43:24 And ye shall offer [them] before Yehovah, and the priests shall
sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up [as] whole-burnt-offerings
to Yehovah.
43:25 Seven day shalt thou offer a kid daily for a sin-offering, and a calf
of the herd, and a ram out of the flock: they shall sacrifice them
unblemished for seven days:
43:26 and they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall purge it; and
they shall consecrate themselves.
43:27 And it shall come to pass from the eighth day and onward, [that] the
priests shall offer your whole-burnt-offerings on the altar, and your
peace-offerings; and I will accept you, saith Yehovah. |
43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate,
even the gate that looketh toward the east:
43:2 And, behold, the glory of the Elohim 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.
43:3 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.
43:4 And the glory of Yehovah came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east.
43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
behold, the glory of Yehovah filled the house.
43:6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by
me.
43:7 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.
43:8 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.
43:9 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.
43:10 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.
43:11 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.
43:12 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.
43:13 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.
43:14 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.
43:15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall
be four horns.
43:16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the
four squares thereof.
43:17 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.
43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith Yehovah 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.
43:19 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 Yehovah GOD, a
young bullock for a sin offering.
43:20 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.
43:21 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.
43:22 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.
43:23 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.
43:24 And thou shalt offer them before Yehovah, and the priests shall cast
salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the
Yehovah.
43:25 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.
43:26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall
consecrate themselves.
43:27 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 Yehovah GOD. |