Moff EZE Chapter 43

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43 He then took me to the gateway that looked eastward, 2 and there from the east came the Splendour of the God of Israel! The sound of him was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his splendour. 3 The appearance I saw was like the appearance I had seen in the vision when he came to destroy the city, or like what I had seen at the river Kebar. I fell upon my face, 4 and the Splendour of the Eternal passed into the temple through the gateway facing eastward.

5 Then the Spirit caught me up into the inner court. The Eternal’s Splendour filled the temple, 6 and I heard someone speaking to me out of the temple, while the man stood beside me. 7 “Son of man,” I was told, “here is the seat of my throne, here is the place for the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites for ever; the house of Israel, they and their kings, shall never again sully my sacred presence with their idolatry and the corpses of their dead kings, 8 by putting the royal threshold next my threshold and the royal door-posts beside my door-posts, with only a wall between myself and them; they sullied my sacred presence with these abominable practices, and therefore in anger I destroyed them. 9 Now let them remove their idolatry and the corpses of their dead kings far away from me, and then I will dwell among them for ever. 10 Son of man, show the house of Israel the temple, its form and its design, 11 that they may feel ashamed of all they have done; show them the construction of the temple, its exits and entrances, and all its rules and regulations and constitution; write it all down before their eyes that they may keep all its constitution and carry out all its regulations.

12 Here is the law for the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain shall be sacred ground. Such is the law for the temple. 13 Here are the special measurements of the altars. The gutter is to be twenty-one inches deep and twenty-one inches broad, with a rim of nine inches round the edge; this is to form the basement of the altar. 14 Three and a half feet up from the basement there is to be a ledge twenty-one inches wide; then, seven feet higher there is to be another ledge twenty-one inches wide. 15 The topmost stone of the altar is also to be seven feet high, with four knobs projecting from this altar-hearth, each twenty-one inches in height. 16 The altar-hearth is to be twenty-one feet square; 17 the stone beneath it, twenty-four and a half feet square--with rims round them of ten inches. The basement at the foot is to be twenty-one inches wide. And the steps are to face east.

18 “Son of man,” he continued, “these are the orders of the Lord Eternal. The regulations for the altar are; on the day it is erected, for sacrificing burnt-offerings and being splashed with blood, 19 you must give the Levitical priests who belong to the Zadokite family and who approach me to minister (says the Lord Eternal), a bullock as a sin-offering; 20 take some of its blood and smear the four knobs of the altar and the four corners of the ledge and the rim round the ledge; so the altar shall be cleansed and purified. 21 Take the bullock of the sin-offering and have it burned at the proper spot, outside the sanctuary. 22 Then, on the second day, you must offer an unblemished he-goat for a sin-offering, and the altar must again be cleansed as in the case of the bullock. 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you must sacrifice an unblemished bullock and an unblemished ram, 24 presenting them before the Eternal; the priests must sprinkle salt upon them and sacrifice them as a burnt-offering to the Eternal. 25 For seven days you must provide every day a he-goat as a sin-offering; also an unblemished bullock and a ram must be provided daily for seven days; 26 so the priests must go on purifying and purging the altar and consecrating it. 27 At the end of these days, from the eighth day onwards, the priests shall sacrifice your burnt-offerings and your recompense-offerings upon the altar, and I will admit you to my favour, says the Lord the Eternal.”

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