Ezekiel 43
1 Moreover he brought me to the gate
looking eastward, and led me forth.
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of
Israel came by the eastern way; and there was a voice
of an army, as the sound of many redoubling
their shouts, and the earth shone like light from the
glory round about. 3 And the vision
which I saw was like the vision which I saw when I went in to anoint the city:
and the vision of the chariot which I saw was like the vision which I saw at
the river Chobar; and I fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the Lord came into
the house, by the way of the gate looking eastward.
5 And the Spirit took me up, and
brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the house of the Lord was full
of glory. 6 And I stood, and behold
there was a voice out of the house of one speaking to
me, and a man stood near me, 7 and he
said to me,
Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles
of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel
for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and
their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of
their princes in the midst of them;
8 when they set my door-way by their
door-way, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as
it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their
iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with
slaughter. 9 And now let them put away
from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell
in the midst of them for ever.
10 And thou, son of man, shew the
house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and
shew its aspect and the arrangement of it.
11 And they shall bear their
punishment for all the things that they have done: and thou shalt describe the
house, and its entrances, and the plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and
thou shalt make known to them all the regulations of it, and describe
them before them: and they shall keep all my
commandments, and all my ordinances, and do them.
12 And thou shalt shew the plan of
the house on the top of the mountain: all its limits round about
shall be most holy.
13 And these are the measures of the
altar by the cubit of a cubit and a span, the cavity
shall be a cubit deep, and a cubit shall be the
breadth, and the border on the rim of it round about shall be a span: and this
shall be the height of the altar
14 from the bottom at the
commencement of the hollow part to this great mercy-seat, from beneath was two
cubits, and the breadth was a cubit; and from the little mercy-seat to the
great mercy-seat, four cubits, and the breadth was a cubit.
15 And the altar
shall be four cubits; and from the altar and above
the horns a cubit. 16 And the altar
shall be of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve
cubits in breadth, square upon its four sides.
17 And the mercy-seat
shall be fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen
cubits in breadth on its four sides; and
there shall be a border to it carried round about it
of half a cubit; and the rim of it shall be a cubit
round about; and the steps thereof looking eastward.
18 And he said to me, Son of man,
thus saith the Lord God of Israel; These are the ordinances of the altar in
the day of its being made, to offer upon it whole-burnt-offerings, and to pour
blood upon it. 19 And thou shalt
appoint to the priests the Levites of the seed of Sadduc, that draw nigh to
me, saith the Lord God, to minister to me, a calf of the herd for a
sin-offering. 20 And they shall take
of its blood, and shall put it on the four horns of
the altar, and upon the four corners of the propitiatory, and upon the base
round about, and they shall make atonement for it.
21 And they shall take the calf of
the sin-offering, and it shall be consumed by fire in the separate place of
the house, outside the sanctuary.
22 And on the second day they shall
take two kids of the goats without blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall
make atonement for the altar, as they made atonement with the calf.
23 And after they have finished the
atonement, they shall bring an unblemished calf of the herd, and an
unblemished ram of the flock. 24 And
ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests
shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up
as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord.
25 Seven days shalt thou offer a kid
daily for a sin-offering, and a calf of the herd, and a ram out of the flock:
they shall sacrifice them unblemished for seven days:
26 and they shall make atonement for
the altar, and shall purge it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
27 And it shall come to pass from the
eighth day and onward, that the priests shall offer
your whole-burnt-offerings on the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will
accept you, saith the Lord.