Ezekiel 43

1 Then the man brought me back to the gate that faces east,

2 and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.

3 The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when He came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown,

4 and the glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east.

5 Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

6 While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple,

7 and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

8 When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

9 Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.

10 As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure the plan,

11 and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.

12 This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

13 These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:

14 The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

15 The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.

16 The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

17 The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

18 Then He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:

19 You are to give a young bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are of the family of Zadok, who approach Me to minister before Me, declares the Lord GOD.

20 You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.

21 Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

22 On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull.

23 When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.

24 You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

25 For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both unblemished.

26 For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.

27 At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.’”

1 ¶ Afterward he brought me to the gate, [even] the gate that looketh toward the east:

2 And, behold, the glory of the God 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.

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.

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 of the LORD filled the house.

6 And I heard [him] speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

15 So the altar [shall be] four cubits; and from 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 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 blood thereon.

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 the Lord GOD, a young bullock 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 round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

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.

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 salt upon them, and they shall offer them up [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD.

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.

26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.

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 the Lord GOD.

1 And he brought me again unto the gate toward the east.

2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the east, and roared as a great flood; and there was great light upon the earth from his glory.

3 And it was like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar, when I came to destroy the city. Then fell I down on my face.

4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate toward the east.

5 And a wind took me up, and brought me into the inner court: and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

6 And I heard one speaking with me out of the house. And a man stood by me,

7 And he said unto me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, wherein I will dwell for ever among the children of Israel. And the house of Israel shall no more pollute my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their fornication, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places,

8 Who have set their threshold against my threshold, and their posts against my posts, that there was but a wall between me and them: and they have polluted my holy name with their abominations which they have done: therefore have I consumed them also in mine anger.

9 But now they shall put away their fornication, and the carcases of their kings, far from me: and I will dwell among them for ever.

10 And thou, son of man, shew the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquity; and let them take a clean pattern of it.

11 And if they be ashamed of all their doings, shew them the manner and pattern of the house, and the going out thereof, and the coming in thereof, and all the manner thereof, and all the manners thereof, and all the statutes thereof; and prescribe it unto them, that they may keep all the manner thereof, and all the manners thereof, and do them.

12 And this shall be the law of the house: In the height of the mountain, as far as it hath compassed it, shall it be the most holy: this is the law of the house.

13 Now this is the measure of the altar by the cubit, which is a handbreadth longer than a cubit: the foot thereof is a cubit high, and a cubit broad; and the altar reacheth up unto the brim thereof, which is a span broad round about: and this is the height thereof.

14 And from the foot of the earth unto the lower part thereof shall be two cubits high and an cubit broad: but from the small part thereof unto the great part thereof shall be four cubits high and an cubit broad.

15 And the harel four cubits high, and from the ariel above four horns.

16 And the length of the ariel was twelve cubits, and the breadth thereof twelve cubits.

17 And the top of it was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits broad on every side; and the border was about half a cubit broad; and the foot thereof was a cubit high, and the steps thereof were toward the east.

18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the LORD, These shall be the manner of the altar in the day that it is made, to lay burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

19 And unto the priests of Levi, of the seed of Zadok, which come before me to minister unto me, saith the LORD GOD, thou shalt give a young bullock for a sin offering.

20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and sprinkle it upon the four horns thereof, and upon the four corners of the topmost part thereof, and upon the borders thereof; and thou shalt make an atonement for him therewith.

21 And thou shalt take the bullock of the sin offering, and burn it in the place of the house appointed for it, even in the sanctuary.

22 And on the morrow thou shalt offer a kid of the goats, without change, for a sin offering, and shalt sanctify the altar therewith, as it is sanctified with the bullock.

23 And when thou hast made an end of atoning, thou shalt offer a young bullock without change, and a ram of the flock without change.

24 And thou shalt offer them both before the LORD; and the priests shall sprinkle salt thereon, and offer them for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

25 So thou shalt offer a goat for a sin offering every day seven days in succession: and they shall offer a young bullock, and a ram of the flock, both without change.

26 And they shall make an atonement for the altar seven days, and cleanse it, and fill his hands.

27 And after those days shall the priests offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings upon the altar for ever on the eighth day, and after that, and I will be gracious unto you, saith the LORD GOD.