Ezekiel 41-43
The Inner Temple
Then he abrought me to the bnave and measured the cside pillars; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the side pillar. 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. And he measured the length of the nave, aforty cubits, and the width, atwenty cubits. 3 Then he went ainside and measured each bside pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits. 4 He measured its length, atwenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the bnave; and he said to me, “This is the cmost holy place.”
5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the aside chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side. 6 aThe side chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and the side chambers bextended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself. 7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the astructure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the second story. 8 I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of asix long cubits in height. 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the afree space between the side chambers belonging to the temple 10 and the outer achambers was twenty cubits in width all around the temple on every side. 11 The doorways of the side chambers toward the afree space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the afree space was five cubits all around.
12 The abuilding that was in front of the bseparate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.
13 Then he measured the temple, a ahundred cubits long; the bseparate area with the cbuilding and its walls were also a ahundred cubits long. 14 Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.
15 He measured the length of the abuilding along the front of the bseparate area behind it, with a cgallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. 16 The athresholds, the blatticed windows and the cgalleries round about their dthree stories, opposite the threshold, were epaneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), 17 over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement. 18 It was carved with acherubim and bpalm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, 19 a aman’s face toward the palm tree on one side and a young alion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around. 20 From the ground to above the entrance acherubim and apalm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave.
21 The adoorposts of the bnave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. 22 The aaltar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the btable that is before the Lord.” 23 The anave and the bsanctuary each had a double cdoor. 24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two aswinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. 25 Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, acherubim and apalm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a bthreshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. 26 There were alatticed windows and bpalm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the cporch; thus were the dside chambers of the house and the thresholds.
Chambers of the Temple
Then he abrought me out into the bouter court, the way ctoward the north; and he brought me to the dchamber which was opposite the eseparate area and opposite the fbuilding toward the north. 2 Along the length, which was a ahundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits. 3 Opposite the atwenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the bpavement which belonged to the outer court, was cgallery corresponding to gallery in three stories. 4 Before the achambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were smaller because the agalleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building. 6 For they were in athree stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones. 7 As for the aouter wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was a ahundred cubits. 9 Below these chambers was the aentrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.
10 In the thickness of the awall of the court toward the east, facing the bseparate area and facing the building, there were cchambers. 11 The away in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, according to their length so was their width, and all their exits were both according to their arrangements and openings. 12 Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the awall toward the east, as one enters them.
13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the aseparate area, they are the bholy chambers where the priests who are cnear to the Lord shall eat the dmost holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter, then they shall not go out into the outer court from the sanctuary without alaying there their bgarments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people.”
15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the agate which faced toward the east and measured it all around. 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the ameasuring reed. 17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed. 18 On the south side he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 19 He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it on the four sides; it had a awall all around, the blength five hundred and the bwidth five hundred, to cdivide between the holy and the profane.
Vision of the Glory of God Filling the Temple
Then he led me to the agate, the gate facing toward the east; 2 and behold, the aglory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the beast. And His cvoice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth dshone with His glory. 3 And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the avision which I saw when He came to bdestroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the criver Chebar; and I dfell on my face. 4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate facing toward the aeast. 5 And the aSpirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the bglory of the Lord filled the house.
6 Then I heard one speaking to me from the house, while a aman was standing beside me. 7 He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My athrone and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will bdwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the ccorpses of their kings when they die, 8 by setting their threshold by My threshold and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have adefiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger. 9 Now let them aput away their harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from Me; and I will bdwell among them forever.
10 “As for you, son of man, adescribe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be bashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the cplan. 11 If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house, its structure, its aexits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it bin their sight, so that they may observe its whole design and all its statutes and cdo them. 12 This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the amountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
The Altar of Sacrifice
13 “And these are the measurements of the aaltar by cubits (the bcubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): the base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge round about one span; and this shall be the height of the base of the altar. 14 From the base on the ground to the lower aledge shall be two cubits and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits and the width one cubit. 15 The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four ahorns. 16 Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, asquare in its four sides. 17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubit round about; and its asteps shall bface the east.”
The Offerings
18 And He said to me, “aSon of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offer bburnt offerings on it and to csprinkle blood on it. 19 You shall give to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of aZadok, who draw bnear to Me to minister to Me,’ declares the Lord God, ‘a cyoung bull for a dsin offering. 20 You shall take some of its blood and put it on its four ahorns and on the four corners of the bledge and on the border round about; thus you shall ccleanse it and make atonement for it. 21 You shall also take the bull for the sin offering, and it shall be aburned in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.
22 ‘On the second day you shall offer a amale goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall bcleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bull. 23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall present a ayoung bull without blemish and a bram without blemish from the flock. 24 You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw asalt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord. 25 aFor seven days you shall prepare daily a goat for a sin offering; also a young bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be prepared. 26 For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it. 27 When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the aeighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your bpeace offerings; and I will caccept you,’ declares the Lord God.”
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