Measures and the EZEKIEL, XLIII. 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 h of the LORD filled the house. B. C. 574. h 1Ki.8. 10,11. i ch.40.3. k Ac.7.48,49. 1 ICh.28.2. 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man im Ex.29.45. stood by me. 7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, k and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwellm in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, n neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of o their kings in their high places. Joel 3.17. n ch.39.7. o Je. 16.18. p ch.23-39. 2 or, for there q Ho. 2.2. → 2Co.6.16. number. 8 In their setting p of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, 2 and the wall 3 or, sum, or between me and them; they have even defiled my holy name by theirs He.8.5. abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. 1Co. 11.2. u Mat.28.20. 9 Now let them put away a their whoredom, and the carcasses of 5 lip. their kings, far from me, andr I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 10 Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the 3 pattern. il And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them! the forms 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 t 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 allu the ordinances thereof, and do them. 6 ordinances of the allar. settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 So 6 the altar shall be four cubits; and from 7 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 v 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 w blood thereon. 19 And thou shalt give to the priests a the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock y 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 Harel, i. e. round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. the moun tain of v 1 Ki.6.8. w y Le. 1.5. ch.44.15. Le.8.14,&c. a Le.2.13. 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 b Ex.29.35, the law of the house. 36. 13 And these are the measures 8 fill their of the altar after the cubits: The hands, cubit is a cubit and an hand- Ex.29.24. breadth; even the bottom shall e Le.8.33. be a cubit, and the breadth a cud Le. 9.1. bit, and the border thereof by the 5 edge thereof round about shall 9 or, thankbe a span: and this shall be the offerings. higher place of the altar. e ch.20.40,41. 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 Ho.8.13. 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin-offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without z 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 a salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burntoffering unto the LORD. 25 Seven b 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 8 consecrate c themselves. 27 And when these days are expired, d it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your 9 peace-offerings; and I will accept you, e saith the Lord GOD. The priests reproved. CHAPTER XLIV. EZEKIEL, XLIV. The priests reproved for polluting of TH the sanctuary. B. C. 574. &c. c ch.46.2,8. d ch. 43.5. 1 set thine heart. (CHAP. 44.) HEN he brought me back the a ch.43.1,4. way of the gate of the out-b ICo. 10, 18, ward sanctuary, a 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 e ch.40.4. it, therefore it shall be shut. fch.43,11. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, Ps. 119.4. he shall sit in it to eat bread before 5 Ps.96.8,9. b the LORD; he shall enter by the h ch.2.5. way c of the porch of that gate, and i ch.43.8. 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, d the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face. 1 Pe.4.3. k Le.22.25. 2 children of 1 Le.26.41. Ac.7.53. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, 1 mark well, and be-n Le.22.9,&c. hold e with thine eyes, and hear) with thine ears, all that I say unto 3 or, ward,or, thee concerning all the ordinances ordinance. of the house of the LORD, and all o Mar. 16. 16. the laws thereof; and mark well fp2K, 23.8,&c. the entering in g of the house, with q 1Ti.5.22. every going forth of the sanctuary. r 1Ch.26. 1, 6 And thou shalt say to the rebelious, h even to the house of Israel, s 2Ch.29.34. Thus saith the Lord Gon; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice i you of all your abominations. 7 In that ye have brought k into my sanciuary 2 strangers, uncircumcised m in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, because of all your abominations. 8 And ye have not kept n the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my 3 charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised o in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children. of Israel. &c. t Nu. 16.9. ch. 14.3,4. Ordinances for the priests. before them t to minister unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused u the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them. saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed: 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they w shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat, a and the blood, y saith the Lord GOD: 16 They z shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen a garments; and no wool shall come upon them whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves 5 with any thing that causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off b their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy y Le. 17.5,6.chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their gar v 1Ki.2.35. w De. 10.8. x Le.3.16. z Re. 1.6. &c. 5 in, or, with sweat, or, ing places. b ch.42. 14. 10 And the Levites that are gone away p far from me, when Israel q went astray, which went astray c 1Co.3.5,6. away from me after their idols; d Le.21.5,&c. they shall even bear their iniquity. e Le. 10.9. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates r of the house, and ministering to the house they shall slay s the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand ITi.3.3. 6 thrust forth. ments.c 20 Neither d shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long they shall only poll their heads. 21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, e when they enter into the inner court. their wives a widow, nor her that 22 Neither shall they take for is 6 put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy The divisions EZEKIEL, XLV. and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. B. C. 574. f2Ch. 19-8, 10. g 1Ti.3. 15. Is.5S. 13, 14. 24 And in controversy f they shall stand in judgment; and they shall Judge it according to my judg-h ch.22.26. ments and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine i Le.21.1,&c. assemblies; and they shall hallowk Nu.6. 10, &c. my sabbaths.h 25 And they shall come at no dead i person to defile themselves: but for father or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves. 19.11,&c. Le.4.3. m Nu. 18.20. 33. 26 And after k he is cleansed theyn Le.6.18,29. shall reckon unto him seven days. 7.6. 27 And in the day that he goeth o Nu. 18. 14. into the sanctuary, unto the inner 8 or, devoted. court, to minister in the sanctuary, 9 or, chief. he shall offer / his sin-offering, saith the Lord GOD. p Ex.22.29, 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I m am their in-q heritance and ye shall give them | no possession in Israel: I am their possession. 29 They n shall eat the meat-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and o every 8 dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30. Nu. 15.20. Ne. 10.37. s Le.22.8. land to fall. 30 And the 9 first of all the first-a ch.47.22. fruits p of all things, and every ob-2 holiness. lation of all, of every sort of your b ch.48.8. oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the c ch.42.20. first of your dough, q that he may 3 or, void cause the blessing r to rest in thine places. house. 31 The priest shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, s or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. CHAPTER XLV. of the land. shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. 5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers ƒ of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.g 6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7 And h a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. 8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel; and my princes i shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according k to their tribes. 9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove m violence and spoil, and execute judgment n and jusd ch.48. 10,&ctice, take away your 4 exactions o from my people, saith the Lord GOD. e ver. 1. f1Co.9.13, 14. 10 Ye shall have just balances, p and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. 12 And the shekel q shall be twenty gerahs twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. 13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley. 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: 15 And one 5 lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for 6 peace-offerings, to make re Political ordinances EZEKIEL, XLVI. conciliation r for them, saith the B. C. 574. Lord GOD. 16 All the people of the land shall 7 give this oblation 8 for the prince in Israel. r Le. 1.4. He.9.22,23. 8 be for. 17 And it shall be the prince's part to give t burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, and drink-offerings, s Ex.30. 14, 15. in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnior, with. ties of the house of Israel: he shall t 2Ch.5.6. prepare the sin-offering, and the meat-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the 9 peace-offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. 30.24. 35.7. Ezr. 1.5. 6-8,9. 9 or, thankofferings. 18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take au Le.16.16. young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: u 19 And the priest shall take of the blood v of the sin-offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, w and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. 21 In the first, month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened y bread shall be eaten. 22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself, and for all the people of the land a bullock z for a sin-oilering. 23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt-offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid a of the goats daily for a sin-offering. v ch.43.20. w Le.4.27. for the prince. | without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare c his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door d of this gate before the LORD, in the sabbaths, and in the new moons. 4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath-day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 5 And thef meat-offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meatoffering for the lambs 1 as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 6 And in the day of the new moon Ex. 12. 18. it shall be a young bullock without Le.23.5,&c. blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. Nu.9.2,3. y Co.5.7,8. Le.4.14. a Nu.28.15, &c. b ch.46.5.7. c Nu.29.12. d De.16.13. (CHAP. 46.) a ver. S. ch. 44. 3. Jno. 10.1-3. 24 And he shall prepare a meat-c Col.1.28. offering b of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hind Jno. 10.9. of oil for an ephah. e ch.45.17. f ch.45.24. 1 the gift of his hand, De. 16.17. g ver. 2. 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth c day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven d days, according to the sinoffering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meatoffering, and according to the oil. CHAPTER XLVI. Ordinances for the prince in his wor-hEx.23.14-17. ship, and for the people. HUS saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that Jooketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. THUS 2 And the prince a shall enter by the way b of the porch of that gate De.16.16. Mal.4.4. i ver. 5. k ver. 2. ch.44.3. 1 Ex.29.38. Nu.28.3. 7 And he shall prepare a meatoffering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of ou to an ephah. 8 Andy when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. 9 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, h he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. 10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go m and when they go forth, shall go forth. 11 And in the feasts, and in the solemnities, the i meat-offering shall be an ephah to a ballock. and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt-offering or peace-offerings voluntarily unte the LORD, one shall then open him the gate k that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare hus burntoffering and his peace-offerings, as he did on the sabbath-day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 13 Thou shalt daily prepare s The princes' inheritance. EZEKIEL, XLVII. Vision of the holy waters. FTERWARD he brought me burnt-offering unto the LORD of a B. C. 574.A again unto the door of the lamb 2 of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it 3 every morning. 2 a son of his year. 14 And thou shalt prepare a meat-3 morning by offering for it every morning, the morning. sixth part of an ephah, and the m Le.25.10. third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meatoffering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. 15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat-offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt-offering. 16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance. n ch.45.8. 5 or, made 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year m of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be s ver.20. his sons' for them. 18 Moreover the prince shall not n take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not Scattered o every man from his pos session. (CHAP. 47.) a b Je.2. 13. Joel 3. 18. 14.8. ver. 12. 2 the ancies. 19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. 20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, where they shall bake g the meat-offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify r the people. 21 Then he brought me forth into' f Is.35.1,7. the utter court, and caused me to 4 or, plain, ming. Mat. 13.31, 3 lip. e ver. 12. house; and, behold, waters a issued out from under b the threshold of the house eastward for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. 2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side. 3 And when the man c that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the 1 waters were to the ancles. 4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. 5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters 2 to swim in, a river d that could not be passed over. 6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. 7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the 3 bank of the river were very many trees e on the one side and on the other. 8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down intof the 32.4 desert, and go into the sea; which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. 4.49. Jos.3.16. g Jno.3.16. 11.26. pass by the four corners of the De.3.17. 21 Then said he unto me, These s are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. CHAPTER XLVII. 5 two rivers. i Mat.4. 19. k Nu.34.6. Ps, 104.25. Is.49.12.20. 6 or, and that which shall not. 1 The vision of the holy waters. 6 The m Je. 17.6. virtue of them. 13 The borders of n ver.7. the land, etc. 9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth,g which moveth, whithersoever the 5 rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; h and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. 10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers i shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great k sea, exceeding / many. 11 But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof 6 shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.m 12 And by the river upon the n bank thereof, on this side and on |