Part 561 (2/2)
42:7. And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.
42:8. For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.
42:9. And there was under these chambers, an entrance from the east, for them that went into them out of the outward court.
42:10. In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was toward the east, over against the separate building, and there were chambers before the building.
42:11. And the way before them was like the chambers which were toward the north: they were as long as they, and as broad as they: and all the going in to them, and their fas.h.i.+ons, and their doors were alike.
42:12. According to the doors of the chambers that were towards the south: there was a door in the head of the way, which way was before the porch, separated towards the east as one entereth in.
42:13. And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the offering for sin, and for trespa.s.s: for it is a holy place.
42:14. And when the priests shall have entered in, they shall not go out of the holy places into the outward court: but there they shall lay their vestments, wherein they minister, for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and so they shall go forth to the people.
42:15. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and he measured it on every side round about.
42:16. And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
42:17. And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
42:18. And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
42:19. And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
42:20. By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every side round about, five hundred cubits and five hundred cubits broad, making a separation between the sanctuary and the place of the people.
Ezechiel Chapter 43
The glory of G.o.d returns to the new temple. The Israelites shall no more profane G.o.d's name by idolatry: the prophet is commanded to shew them the dimensions, and form of the temple, and of the altar, with the sacrifices to be offered thereon.
43:1. And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the east.
43:2. And behold the glory of the G.o.d of Israel came in by the way of the east: and his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty.
43:3. And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I had seen when he came to destroy the city: and the appearance was according to the vision which I had seen by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
43:4. And the majesty of the Lord went into the temple by the way of the gate that looked to the east.
43:5. And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.
43:6. And I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and the man that stood by me,
43:7. Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their kings by their fornications, and by the carca.s.ses of their kings, and by the high places.
43:8. They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and their posts by my posts: and there was but a wall between me, and them: and they profaned my holy name by the abominations which they committed: for which reason I consumed them in my wrath.
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