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[_LittleNipper]

Ezekiel 39:1-29

“Human, prophesy against Gog and say: This is what the Godhead says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal.

I will turn you around and drag you along. I will pull you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel.

Then I will knock your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.

On the mountains of Israel you will die, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and wild animals.

You will die in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Godhead.

I will send fire on Magog and on those who live "safety" in the coastlands, and they will realize that I am the Lord.

I will display my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will realize that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel.

It's on the way! It will definitely happen, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the moment I have spoken of.

Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For 7 years they will use them for fuel.

They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.

On that day I will provide Gog a grave in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.

For 7 months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

All the citizens of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them, declares the Godhead.

People will be continually working at cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are sprawled on the ground.

After the seven months they will carry out a more careful search.

As they travel the land, anyone who finds a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog,

near a town called Hamonah. And thus they will cleanse the land."

"Human, this is what the Godhead says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and gather from everywhere to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.

You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan.

At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are stuffed and drink blood till you are wasted.

At my table you will gorge yourselves on horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every sort,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.

I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and My power I apply to them.

From that day forward the people of Israel will understand that I am the Lord their God.

And the nations will understand that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, being unfaithful to Me. So I ignored them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all died by the sword.

I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I will not show Myself to them.

A result this is what the Sovereign Lord proclaims: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be passionate for my holy name.

They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they displayed toward me when they resided in safety in their land with no one to worry them.

When I have pulled them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be shown as holy through them in view of many nations.

Finally they will realize that I am the Lord their God --- even though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.

I will no longer not show Myself to them, for I will dump my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Godhead.”


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And thou, son of man, prophesy concerning Gog, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, O Gog, Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal,

2 And have turned thee back, and enticed thee, And caused thee to come up from the sides of the north, And brought thee in against mountains of Israel,

3 And have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, Yea, thine arrows out of thy right I cause to fall.

4 On mountains of Israel thou fallest, Thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples who [are] with thee, To ravenous fowl -- a bird of every wing, And [to] a beast of the field, I have given thee for food.

5 On the face of the field thou fallest, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

6 And I have sent a fire against Magog, And against the confident inhabitants of the isles, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah.

7 And My holy name I make known in the midst of My people Israel, And I pollute not My holy name any more, And known have the nations that I, Jehovah, the Holy One, [am] in Israel.

8 Lo, it hath come, and it hath been done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, It [is] the day of which I spake.

9 And gone out have the inhabitants of cities of Israel, And they have burned and kindled [a fire], With armour, and shield, and buckler, With bow, and with arrows, And with hand-staves, and with javelins, And they have caused a fire to burn with them seven years,

10 And they do not take wood out of the field, Nor do they hew out of the forests, For with armour they cause the fire to burn, And they have spoiled their spoilers, And they have plundered their plunderers, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

11 And it hath come to pass, in that day, I give to Gog a place there -- a grave in Israel, the valley of those passing by, east of the sea, and it is stopping those passing by, and they have buried there Gog, and all his multitude, and have cried, O valley of the multitude of Gog!

12 And the house of Israel have buried them -- in order to cleanse the land -- seven months.

13 Yea, all the people of the land have buried them, and it hath been to them for a name -- the day of My being honoured -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

14 And men for continual employment they separate, passing on through the land, burying with those passing by those who are left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it: at the end of seven months they search.

15 And those passing by have passed through the land, and seen a bone of man, and one hath constructed near it a sign till those burying have buried it in the valley of the multitude of Gog.

16 And also the name of the city [is] The multitude; and they have cleansed the land.

17 And thou, son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Say to the bird -- every wing, and to every beast of the field: Be assembled and come in, Be gathered from round about, For My sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, A great sacrifice on mountains of Israel, And ye have eaten flesh, and drunk blood.

18 Flesh of the mighty ye do eat, And blood of princes of the earth ye drink, Of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, Of calves, fatlings of Bashan -- all of them.

19 And ye have eaten fat to satiety, And ye have drunk blood -- to drunkenness, Of My sacrifice that I sacrificed for you.

20 And ye have been satisfied at My table with horse and rider, Mighty man, and every man of war, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

21 And I have given My honour among nations, And seen have all the nations My Judgment that I have done, And My hand that I have laid on them.

22 And known have the house of Israel that I [am] Jehovah their God, From that day and henceforth.

23 And known have the nations that for their iniquity, Removed have the house of Israel, Because they have trespassed against Me, And I do hide My face from them, And give them into the hand of their adversaries, And they fall by sword -- all of them.

24 According to their uncleanness, And according to their transgressions, I have done with them, And I do hide My face from them.

25 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Now do I bring back the captivity of Jacob, And I have pitied all the house of Israel, And have been zealous for My holy name.

26 And they have forgotten their shame, And all their trespass that they trespassed against Me, In their dwelling on their land confidently and none troubling.

27 In My bringing them back from the peoples, I have assembled them from the lands of their enemies, And I have been sanctified in them before the eyes of the many nations,

28 And they have known that I [am] Jehovah their God, In My removing them unto the nations, And I have gathered them unto their land, And I leave none of them any more there.

29 And I hide not any more My face from them, In that I have poured out My spirit on the house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

[_LittleNipper]

Ezekiel 40:1-49

In the 25th year of their exile, at the start of the year, on the 10th day of the month — this being 14 years after Jerusalem was sacked — it was on that very day that the power of the Lord came upon Ezekiel, and He placed Ezekiel.

In visions God brought Ezekiel into the land of Israel and set him down on a very high mountain --- facing south, it seemed that a city was under construction.

That is where he took Ezekiel, and there before Ezekiel was a man whose appearance was like bronze. He had a flax rope and a measuring rod in his hand, and stood in the gateway.

This man said, “Human, look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to all the things I Am showing you; because the reason you were brought here is so that I could show them to you. Tell everything you see to the house of Israel.

There was a wall surrounding the house. The man held in his hand a measuring rod 6 cubits long [10.5 feet], each cubit [21 inches] being a normal cubit [18 inches] plus a handbreadth [3 inches]. He measured the wall’s thickness at 10.5 feet and its height at 10.5 feet.

He went to the east gate, climbed its steps and measured both gate’s doorposts at 10.5 feet wide each.

There were guardrooms, each 10.5 feet square; the distance between the guardrooms was 8 3/4 feet. The threshold of the gate adjoining the gate’s entranceway facing the house measured 10.5 feet.

He measured the gate’s entranceway facing the house at 10.5 feet.

Then he measured the gate’s entranceway itself, 14 feet, and its supports, 3.5 feet; the gate’s entranceway was along the side facing the house.

There were 3 guardrooms on each side of the east gate, identical in size; and on each side the supports [between the guardrooms] were also all identical.

He measured the width of the opening to the gateway at 17.5 feet and the width of the passage through the gateway at 21 3/4 feet.

There was a partition in front of the guardrooms [on one side] 21 inches [wide] and a identical partition on the other side, with the guardrooms themselves being ten-and-a-half feet square.

He measured across the gate from the back wall of one guardroom to the back wall of the other a distance of 43 3/4 feet, the openings to the guardrooms being opposite each other.

He made the posts 105 feet, and also the posts of the other gates surrounding the courtyard.

The distance of the passage from the outside opening of the gateway to the far side of the entranceway at the inside of the gateway was 87.5 feet.

There were narrow windows to the guardrooms and their supports facing inward all along the gate; also the vestibules had windows all around facing inward. On each side support were carved palm trees.

Then He brought Ezekiel into the outer courtyard. There he saw rooms and paved mosaic flooring made for the courtyard all around its perimeter, and thirty rooms facing this flooring.

The flooring was alongside the gates and corresponded to the length of the gates (outside to inside), this lower flooring.

He measured at 175 feet the distance from inside this lower gate that faced east to the outside of the inner courtyard, and He measured the same regarding the north facing gate.

Next He measured the length and width of the outer courtyard gate that faced north.

This had three guardrooms on each side, and its supports and vestibule were the same size as those at the first gate; its length was 87.5 feet and its width 43 3/4 feet.

Its windows, vestibule and palm trees were the same as those at the east gate. 7 steps leading up to it from outside, while its vestibule was on the inside.

There were gates to the inner courtyard across from the gates to the north and east; He measured 175 feet from each outer gate to its corresponding inner gate.

He led me toward the south, and there I saw a gate that faced south. He measured its supports and vestibule; they matched the others.

There were windows in it and all around its vestibule matching the other windows; the length was 87.5 feet and the width 43 3/4 feet.

Seven steps led up to this from outside, while its vestibule was inside. It had palm trees, one on each side, on its supports.

The inner courtyard had a gate on the south; He measured from gate to gate toward the south 175 feet.

He brought Ezekiel to the inner courtyard through its south gate. He measured this south gate as being the same size;

its guardrooms, supports and vestibule matched in size; it had windows and a vestibule surrounding it; it was 87.5 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide.

There was a vestibule around it 43 3/4 feet long and 80 3/4 feet wide;

this vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, and it had eight steps leading up to it.

He brought Ezekiel into the inner courtyard, toward the east and measured that gate -- finding it identical;

its guardrooms, supports and vestibule were the same size; it had windows and a vestibule surrounding it; it was 87.5 long and 43 3/4 feet wide.

Its vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, both on the one side and on the other; and it had eight steps leading up to it.

He took Ezekiel over to the north gate and measured it --- establishing it to be identical.

It had guardrooms, supports and a vestibule with windows surrounding; the length was 87.5 feet and the width 43 3/4 feet. 37 Its supports faced the outer courtyard; palm trees were on its supports, both on the one side and on the other; and it had eight steps leading up to it.

There was a room with its entry by the supports at the gates where the burnt offerings were washed.

In the entranceway to the gate were two tables on the one side and two on the other, on which to slaughter the burnt offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings.

On the outside, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side of the entranceway to the gate were two tables.

So there were four tables on the one side and four on the other side, by the gate — eight tables on which to slaughter sacrifices.

There were four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, 31.5 inches square and 21 inches high, on which to lay the utensils for slaughtering the burnt offerings and other sacrifices.

Hooks a handbreadth long were fastened all around the inside of the room; the flesh of the offerings was to be placed on the tables.

Outside the inner gate, in the inner courtyard, were rooms for the singers, one facing south alongside the north gate, and one facing north alongside the east gate.

He said to Ezekiel, “This room facing south is for the priests in charge of the house;

while the room facing north is for the priests in charge of the altar; these are the descendants of Zadok, who are the descendants of Levi designated to approach God and serve him.”

Then He measured the courtyard at 175 feet long and 175 feet wide -- square. The altar was in front of the house.

He brought Ezekiel to the vestibule of the house and measured at 83 3/4 feet the thickness of the walls on either side of its entrance. On each side, these walls extended 5 3/4 feet from the side-walls of the vestibule.

The length of the vestibule was 35 feet and the width 19 1/4 feet; steps led up to it. There were columns on each side of the entrance.


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 In the twenty and fifth year of our removal, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in this self-same day hath a hand of Jehovah been upon me, and He bringeth me in thither;

2 in visions of God He hath brought me in unto the land of Israel, and causeth me to rest on a very high mountain, and upon it [is] as the frame of a city on the south.

3 And He bringeth me in thither, and lo, a man, his appearance as the appearance of brass, and a thread of flax in his hand, and a measuring-reed, and he is standing at the gate,

4 and the man speaketh unto me: `Son of man, see with thine eyes, And with thine ears hear, And set thy heart to all that I am shewing thee, For, in order to shew [it] thee, Thou hast been brought in hither, Declare all that thou art seeing to the house of Israel.'

5 And lo, a wall on the outside of the house all round about, and in the hand of the man a measuring-reed, six cubits by a cubit and a handbreadth, and he measureth the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed.

6 And he cometh in unto the gate whose front [is] eastward, and he goeth up by its steps, and he measureth the threshold of the gate one reed broad, even the one threshold one reed broad,

7 and the little chamber one reed long and one reed broad, and between the little chambers five cubits, and the threshold of the gate, from the side of the porch of the gate from within, one reed.

8 And he measureth the porch of the gate from within one reed,

9 and he measureth the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its posts two cubits, and the porch of the gates from within,

10 and the little chambers of the gate eastward, three on this side, and three on that side; one measure [is] to them three, and one measure [is] to the posts, on this side and on that side.

11 And he measureth the breadth of the opening of the gate ten cubits, the length of the gate thirteen cubits;

12 and a border before the little chambers, one cubit, and one cubit [is] the border on this side, and the little chamber [is] six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

13 And he measureth the gate from the roof of the [one] little chamber to the roof of another; the breadth twenty and five cubits, opening over-against opening.

14 And he maketh the posts of sixty cubits, even unto the post of the court, the gate all round about;

15 and by the front of the gate of the entrance, by the front of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits;

16 and narrow windows [are] unto the little chambers, and unto their posts at the inside of the gate all round about -- and so to the arches -- and windows all round about [are] at the inside, and at the post [are] palm-trees.

17 And he bringeth me in unto the outer court, and lo, chambers and a pavement made for the court all round about -- thirty chambers on the pavement --

18 and the pavement unto the side of the gates over-against the length of the gates [is] the lower pavement;

19 and he measureth the breadth from before the lower gate, to the front of the inner court, on the outside, a hundred cubits, eastward and northward.

20 As to the gate of the outer court whose front [is] northward, he hath measured its length and its breadth;

21 and its little chambers, three on this side, and three on that side, and its posts and its arches have been according to the measure of the first gate, fifty cubits its length, and the breadth five and twenty by the cubit;

22 and its windows, and its arches, and its palm-trees [are] according to the measure of the gate whose face [is] eastward, and by seven steps they go up on it, and its arches [are] before them.

23 And the gate of the inner court [is] over-against the gate at the north and at the east; and he measureth from gate unto gate, a hundred cubits.

24 And he causeth me to go southward, and lo, a gate southward, and he hath measured its posts and its arches according to these measures;

25 and windows [are] to it and to its arches all round about, like these windows, fifty cubits the length, and the breadth five and twenty cubits;

26 and seven steps [are] its ascent, and its arches [are] before them, and palm-trees [are] to it, one on this side, and one on that side, at its posts;

27 and the gate of the inner court [is] southward, and he measureth from gate unto gate southward, a hundred cubits.

28 And he bringeth me in unto the inner court by the south gate, and he measureth the south gate according to these measures;

29 and its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches [are] according to these measures, and windows [are] to it and to its arches all round about; fifty cubits the length, and the breadth twenty and five cubits.

30 As to the arches all round about, the length [is] five and twenty cubits, and the breadth five cubits;

31 and its arches [are] unto the outer court, and palm-trees [are] unto its posts, and eight steps [are] its ascent.

32 And he bringeth me in unto the inner court eastward, and he measureth the gate according to these measures;

33 and its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches [are] according to these measures: and windows [are] to it and to its arches all round about, the length fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits;

34 and its arches [are] toward the outer court, and palm-trees [are] toward its posts, on this side and on that side, and eight steps [are] its ascent.

35 And he bringeth me in unto the north gate, and hath measured according to these measures;

36 its little chambers, its posts, and its arches; and windows [are] to it all round about: the length fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits;

37 and its posts [are] to the outer court, and palm-trees [are] unto its posts, on this side and on that side, and eight steps [are] its ascent.

38 And the chamber and its opening [is] by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.

39 And in the porch of the gate [are] two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slaughter on them the burnt-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering;

40 and at the side without, at the going up to the opening of the north gate, [are] two tables; and at the other side that [is] at the porch of the gate, [are] two tables;

41 four tables [are] on this side, and four tables on that side, at the side of the gate, eight tables on which they slaughter.

42 And the four tables for burnt-offering [are] of hewn stone: the length one cubit and a half, and the breadth one cubit and a half, and the height one cubit: on them they place the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.

43 And the boundaries [are] one handbreadth, prepared within all round about: and on the tables [is] the flesh of the offering.

44 And on the outside of the inner gate [are] chambers of the singers, in the inner court, that [are] at the side of the north gate, and their fronts [are] southward, one at the side of the east gate [hath] the front northward.

45 And he speaketh unto me: `This chamber, whose front [is] southward, [is] for priests keeping charge of the house;

46 and the chamber, whose front [is] northward, [is] for priests keeping charge of the altar: they [are] sons of Zadok, who are drawing near of the sons of Levi unto Jehovah, to serve Him.'

47 And he measureth the court: the length a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, square, and the altar [is] before the house.

48 And he bringeth me in unto the porch of the house, and he measureth the post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate, three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side;

49 the length of the porch twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and by the steps whereby they go up unto it: and pillars [are] at the posts, one on this side, and one on that side.

[_LittleNipper]

Ezekiel 41:1-26

He brought me to the sanctuary and measured 10.5 feet the thickness of the walls on either side of its entrance, which had been the thickness of the walls around the “tent” being, the sanctuary together with the Holy of Holies.

The width of the entrance was 17.5 feet. The sides of the entrance were 8 3/4 feet on each side. He measured its length at 70 feet and its width 35 feet.

Next, he went farther in to the entranceway leading to the Holy of Holies and measured at 3.5 the thickness of each entrance support. He measured at 10.5 feet the total thickness of the walls on either side of the entrance; and he measured at 12 1/4 feet the width of the entrance.

Moving into the inner room, he said to me, “This is the Holy of Holies.” He measured its length at 35 feet and its width 35 feet along the wall nearest the sanctuary.

Upon leaving, he measured the thickness of the wall of the house at 10.5 feet at ground level, and the width of all the side-rooms surrounding the house, 7 feet at ground level.

There were 3 floors of side-rooms, 30 on each floor; and the wall around the house was terraced, so that the side-rooms rested on the terraces and were not supported by the vertical parts of the wall.

The higher side-rooms surrounding the house were wider than the lower ones, as were the hallways next to these side-rooms on each floor; thus the width of the side-rooms plus that of the hallways increased as one ascended from floor to floor. The ascent from the lowest floor to the highest was by a ramp through the middle floor.

I saw that the house had a raised pavement all around it which extended outward a full rod of 10.5 feet from where the foundations of the side-rooms joined it.

The outer wall of the side-rooms was 8 3/4 feet thick at ground level, likewise the empty space left between the structure containing the side-rooms and the house itself also measured 8 3/4 feet wide.

On all sides around the house itself was a space 35 feet wide between it and the set of rooms for the priests.

The doors of the side-rooms opened toward an empty space, one door facing north and the other facing south; the empty space was 8 3/4 feet wide all around.

The building on the west facing the separated yard had an interior width of 122.5 feet, an interior length of 157.5 feet and exterior walls 8 3/4 feet thick all around.

He measured the length of the house at 175 feet; then a distance that included the width of the separated yard, the interior width of the building and the thickness of its front and rear exterior walls, at 175 feet.

The distance along the facade of the house on the east through the separated yards to the north and south was 175 feet.

He measured the length of the building facing the separated yard behind the house, along with its galleries on both sides, at 175 feet.

The sanctuary, the inner place and the vestibules leading from the house to the courtyard,

as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries around these three, had wood panelling around them as far as the thresholds and from the ground up to the windows; and the windows were covered.

From the area above the entrance to the interior of the house, as well as outside, and on the entire wall all the way around, both inside and outside, was a pattern

consisting of cherubs and palm trees, with a palm tree between every two cherubs . Every cherub had two faces;

so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on its one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on its other side — this was repeated all the way around the house.

The cherubs and palm trees ran from the ground to above the door, and likewise on the wall of the sanctuary.

As for the sanctuary, the door-frames were squared, and the appearance of the Holy of Holies was like the appearance Ezekiel saw.

The altar was of wood, 5 1/4 feet high and 3.5 feet long; its length and walls were also of wood. He spoke to Ezekiel, “This is the table which is in the presence of God.”

The sanctuary had two doors, and the Holy of Holies had two doors. The doors were double doors — two for the one and two for the other.

On them, that is, on the doors of the sanctuary, were carved cherubs and palm trees like those on the walls; and on the exterior facade of the outside entrance thick beams of wood.

There were narrow windows flanked by palm trees on both sides of the entrance; the side-rooms of the house and the thick beams also had palm trees.


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And he bringeth me in unto the temple, and he measureth the posts, six cubits the breadth on this side, and six cubits the breadth on that side -- the breadth of the tent.

2 And the breadth of the opening [is] ten cubits; and the sides of the opening [are] five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side; and he measureth its length forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

3 And he hath gone inward, and measureth the post of the opening two cubits, and the opening six cubits, and the breadth of the opening seven cubits.

4 And he measureth its length twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, unto the front of the temple, and he saith unto me, `This [is] the holy of holies.'

5 And he measureth the wall of the house six cubits, and the breadth of the side-chamber four cubits, all round the house round about.

6 And the side-chambers [are] side-chamber by side-chamber, three and thirty times; and they are entering into the wall -- which the house hath for the side-chambers all round about -- to be taken hold of, and they are not taken hold of by the wall of the house.

7 And a broad place and a turning place still upwards [are] to the side-chambers, for the turning round of the house [is] still upwards all round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [is] upwards, and so the lower one goeth up unto the higher by the midst.

8 And I have looked at the house, the height all round about: the foundations of the side-chambers [are] the fulness of the reed, six cubits by the joining.

9 The breadth of the wall that [is] to the side-chamber at the outside [is] five cubits; and that which is left [is] the place of the side-chambers that [are] to the house.

10 And between the chambers [is] a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house, all round about.

11 And the opening of the side-chamber [is] to the place left, one opening northward, and one opening southward, and the breadth of the place that is left [is] five cubits all round about.

12 As to the building that [is] at the front of the separate place [at] the corner westward, the breadth [is] seventy cubits, and the wall of the building five cubits broad all round about, and its length ninety cubits.

13 And he hath measured the house, the length [is] a hundred cubits; and the separate place, and the building, and its walls, the length [is] a hundred cubits;

14 and the breadth of the front of the house, and of the separate place eastward, a hundred cubits.

15 And he hath measured the length of the building unto the front of the separate place that [is] at its hinder part, and its galleries on this side and on that side, a hundred cubits, and the inner temple and the porches of the court,

16 the thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about them three, over-against the threshold, a ceiling of wood all round about, and the ground unto the windows and the covered windows,

17 over above the opening, and unto the inner-house, and at the outside, and by all the wall all round about within and without [by] measure.

18 And it is made [with] cherubs and palm-trees, and a palm-tree [is] between cherub and cherub, and two faces [are] to the cherub;

19 and the face of man [is] unto the palm-tree on this side, and the face of a young lion unto the palm-tree on that side; it is made unto all the house all round about.

20 from the earth unto above the opening [are] the cherubs and the palm-trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.

21 Of the temple the side post [is] square, and of the front of the sanctuary, the appearance [is] as the appearance.

22 Of the altar, the wood [is] three cubits in height, and its length two cubits; and its corners [are] to it, and its length, and its walls [are] of wood, and he speaketh unto me, `This [is] the table that [is] before Jehovah.'

23 And two doors [are] to the temple and to the sanctuary;

24 and two leaves [are] to the doors, two turning leaves [are] to the doors, two to the one door, and two leaves to the other.

25 And made on them, on the doors of the temple, [are] cherubs and palm-trees as are made on the walls, and a thickness of wood [is] at the front of the porch on the outside.

26 And narrow windows and palm-trees [are] on this side, and on that side, at the sides of the porch, and the side-chambers of the house, and the thick places.

[_Maksutov]

Isn't it wonderful that God would give so much thought and produce so much text relating to the minute details of religious furnishings? I would have thought that maybe he would give people some useful information, like telling them to boil their water? Seems like God was only as bright as the sheepherders that believed in him.

[_LittleNipper]

Isn't it wonderful that God would give so much thought and produce so much text relating to the minute details of religious furnishings? I would have thought that maybe he would give people some useful information, like telling them to boil their water? Seems like God was only as bright as the sheepherders that believed in him.

What are being described are future events and a future temple. As for the Dietary laws of the Bible, they are second to none. The Jews were often looked upon with suspicion, due to the fact that while many "Gentiles" succumbed to the plagues that ravaged medieval Europe, the vast majority of Jews that followed Biblical dietary laws were relatively unharmed. Many actually supposed that the Jews were poisoning the wells or practicing witchcraft. The fact remains they were doing what the Bible said to do --- while most others lived as pigs.

[_LittleNipper]

Ezekiel 42:1-20

Then He led me into the outer courtyard --- en route northward, bringing Ezekiel to the group of rooms opposite the separated yard and opposite the building to the north.

The length of the front was 175 feet on the north side, where the door was; the width was 87.5 feet.

It was located between the inner courtyard, which was 35 feet wide, and the flooring of the outer courtyard. It had galleries, one above the other, of three floors.

In front of this group of rooms was a walkway 17.5 feet wide and a path 21 inches wide; their doors faced north.

The upper rooms were shorter, because the galleries took up some of their space, more than from the rooms on the lower and middle levels of the building.

For the rooms were on three floors, and they didn’t have columns like those in the courtyards; therefore space was taken away from the rooms on the lower and middle floors, in comparison with the ground.

The length of the wall outside, next to the rooms, toward the outer courtyard in front of the rooms, was 87.5 feet.

For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was 87.5 feet, whereas the length of the side facing the sanctuary was 175 feet.

Under these rooms was the entrance to the east side, leading in from the outer courtyard.

In the width of the courtyard wall on the east, facing the separated yard and facing the building, there were rooms,

with a passageway in front of them, similar to the rooms on the north. They were the same length and width and had similarly made exits and entrances.

By the entrances of the rooms on the south there was an entrance at the end of the passage, the passageway right in front of the wall, toward the eastern entrances.

Then He said to Ezekiel, “The north and south group of rooms in front of the separated yard are the holy rooms where the Priests who approach the Lord will eat the especially holy things. This is where they will put the especially holy things — the grain offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings; the place is holy.

When the priests come, they will not go out of the Holy of Holies into the outer courtyard; rather, they will leave in these rooms the clothes they use when ministering, because they are holy. They will put on other clothes and only then approach the areas permitted to the people.”

After He had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by way of the gate facing east and measured the entire area.

He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was 875 feet.

He measured the north side 875 feet.

He measured the south side 875 feet.

He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet.

He measured its four sides; it had a wall around it; and it was 875 feet long and 875 feet wide. So a division was determined between what was holy and what was common.


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And he bringeth me forth unto the outer court, the way northward, and he bringeth me in unto the chamber that [is] over-against the separate place, and that [is] over-against the building at the north.

2 At the front of the length [is] a hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.

3 Over-against the twenty [cubits] that are to the inner court, and over-against the pavement that [is] to the outer court, [is] gallery over-against gallery, in the three [storeys].

4 And at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at the north.

5 And the upper chambers [are] short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;

6 for they [are] threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back -- more than the lower and than the middle one -- from the ground.

7 As to the wall that [is] at the outside, over-against the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length [is] fifty cubits;

8 for the length of the chambers that [are] to the outer court [is] fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple a hundred cubits.

9 And under these chambers [is] the entrance from the east, in one's going into them from the outer court.

10 In the breadth of the wall of the court eastward, unto the front of the separate place, and unto the front of the building, [are] chambers.

11 And the way before them [is] as the appearance of the chambers that [are] northward, according to their length so [is] their breadth, and all their outlets, and according to their fashions, and according to their openings.

12 And according to the openings of the chambers that [are] southward [is] an opening at the head of the way, the way directly in the front of the wall eastward in entering them.

13 And he saith unto me, `The north chambers, the south chambers, that [are] at the front of the separate place, they [are] holy chambers, where the priests (who [are] near to Jehovah) eat the most holy things, there they place the most holy things, and the present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, for the place [is] holy.

14 In the priests' going in, they come not out from the sanctuary unto the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they [are] holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near unto that which [is] for the people.'

15 And he hath finished the measurements of the inner house, and hath brought me forth the way of the gate whose front [is] eastward, and he hath measured it all round about.

16 He hath measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.

17 He hath measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

18 The south side he hath measured, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed.

19 He hath turned round unto the west side, he hath measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.

20 At the four sides he hath measured it, a wall [is] to it all round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to separate between the holy and the profane place

[_LittleNipper]

Ezekiel 43:1-27

Following this, He brought Ezekiel to the east gate.

There I witnessed the glory of the God of Israel approaching from the east. His voice sounded like rushing water, and the earth shone with his glory.

The vision seemed like the vision Ezekiel had seen when he arrived to the destruction the city; also the visions were like those seen by the Chebar River; and Ezekiel fell on His face.

The Lord's glory entered the house through the east gate.

Next, a spirit lifted Ezekiel up and brought him into the inner courtyard, and Ezekiel saw the Lord's glory fill the house.

Ezekiel heard someone speaking from the house, and a man was standing by Ezekiel.

He said, “Human, this is the place for my throne, the place for the bottom of my feet, where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel, both they and their kings, will never again defile My holy name by their prostitution, burying the corpses of their kings on high places,

or by placing their entrances to my threshold and their door-frames next to my door-frames, with only a common wall between me and them. Yes, they defiled my holy name by the disgusting practices they committed; which is why I destroyed them in My anger.

So now, they should keep their prostitution at a distance and the corpses of their kings apart from me; then I will live among them forever.

“You, human, describe this house to Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their crimes. And let them measure accurately.

If they become ashamed of all they have done, show them the elevation and plan of the house, its exits and entrances, all its details and decorations, and all its specifications, its design and its Law. Open it for them to see, so that they can observe the entire design with its specifications, and carry them out.

This is Law for the house: the whole surrounding area on the mountaintop will be especially holy.”

These are the measurements of the altar 21 inches: the base, 21 inches deep and 21 inches wide; with the molding surrounding it at its rim about nine inches in width. The height of the altar is thus:

from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, 3.5 feet, with the width 21 inches; from the lower ledge to the upper ledge, 7 feet, with the width again 21 inches.

The hearth measures 7 feet high, with four horns on top of the hearth.

The hearth is 21 feet square.

The ledge measures a square 24.5 feet on each of its four sides; the molding around it 10.5 inches [across]; and its base 21 inches larger than the rest, all the way around. Its steps face east.

18 He said to me, “Human being, Adonai Elohim says, ‘These are the regulations for the altar when the time comes to construct it, offer burnt offerings on it and splash the blood against it:

you are to give to the priests, who are Levites descended from Zadok and who approach to serve me,’ says God Head, ‘a young bull as a sin offering.

You are to take its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge and on the molding all the way around; this is how you will purify it and make atonement for it.

You are also to take the bull which is the sin offering and have it burned up at the designated spot of the house, outside the sanctuary.

On the 2nd day you are to offer a male goat without defect as a sin offering, and they are to purify the altar along with the bull.

When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull without defect and a ram from the flock without defect.

You are to present them before God, and the priests will throw salt on them and offer them as a burnt offering to God.

Every day, for 7 days, you are to prepare a goat as a sin offering; they are also to prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock without defect.

For 7 days, they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; consecrating it.

When these days are over, then, on the 8th day and afterwards, the priests will present your burnt offerings on the altar and your peace offerings; and I will accept you,’ says the God Head.”


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And he causeth me to go to the gate, the gate that is looking eastward.

2 And lo, the honour of the God of Israel hath come from the way of the east, and His voice [is] as the noise of many waters, and the earth hath shone from His honour.

3 And according to the appearance [is] the appearance that I saw, as the appearance that I saw in my coming in to destroy the city, and the appearances [are] as the appearance that I saw at the river Chebar, and I fall on my face.

4 And the honour of Jehovah hath come in unto the house, the way of the gate whose face [is] eastward.

5 And take me up doth the Spirit, and bringeth me in unto the inner court, and lo, the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house.

6 And I hear one speaking unto me from the house, and a man hath been standing near me,

7 and He saith unto 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 sons of Israel to the age, Defile no more do the house of Israel My holy name, They, and their kings, by their whoredom, And by the carcases of their kings -- their high places.

8 In their putting their threshold with My threshold, And their door-post near My door-post, And the wall between Me and them, And they have defiled My holy name, By their abominations that they have done, And I consume them in Mine anger.

9 Now do they put far off their whoredom, And the carcases of their kings -- from Me, And I have dwelt in their midst to the age.

10 Thou, son of man, Shew the house of Israel the house, And they are ashamed of their iniquities, And they have measured the measurement.

11 And since they have been ashamed of all that they have done, The form of the house, and its measurement, And its outlets, and its inlets, and all its forms, And all its statutes, even all its forms, And all its laws cause them to know, And write [it] before their eyes, And they observe all its forms, And all its statutes, and have done them.

12 This [is] a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all round about [is] most holy; lo, this [is] a law of the house.

13 `And these [are] measures of the altar by cubits: The cubit [is] a cubit and a handbreadth, and the centre [is] a cubit, and a cubit the breadth; and its border on its edge round about [is] one span, and this [is] the upper part of the altar.

14 And from the centre of the ground unto the lower border [is] two cubits, and the breadth one cubit, and from the lesser border unto the greater border four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.

15 `And the altar [is] four cubits, and from the altar and upward [are] four horns.

16 And the altar [is] twelve long by twelve broad, square in its four squares.

17 And the border [is] fourteen long by fourteen broad, at its four squares, and the border round about it [is] half a cubit, and the centre to it [is] a cubit round about, and its steps are looking eastward.'

18 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: These [are] statutes of the altar in the day of its being made to cause burnt-offering to go up on it, and to sprinkle on it blood.

19 And thou hast given unto the priests, the Levites, who [are] of the seed of Zadok -- who are near unto Me, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, to serve Me -- a calf from the herd, for a sin-offering.

20 And thou hast taken of its blood, and hast put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of its border, and on the border round about, and hast cleansed it, and purified it.

21 And thou hast taken the bullock of the sin-offering, and hast burnt it in the appointed place of the house at the outside of the sanctuary.

22 And on the second day thou dost bring near a kid of the goats, a perfect one, for a sin-offering, and they have cleansed the altar, as they cleansed [it] for the bullock.

23 In thy finishing cleansing, thou dost bring near a calf, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and a ram out of the flock, a perfect one.

24 And thou hast brought them near before Jehovah, and the priests have cast upon them salt, and have caused them to go up, a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

25 Seven days thou dost prepare a goat for a sin-offering daily, and a bullock, a son of the herd, and a ram out of the flock, perfect ones, do they prepare.

26 Seven days they purify the altar, and have cleansed it, and filled their hand.

27 And the days are completed, and it hath come to pass on the eighth day, and henceforth, the priests prepare on the altar your burnt-offerings and your peace-offerings, and I have accepted you -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

[_LittleNipper]

Ezekiel 44:1-31

Then He took Ezekiel back through the outer gate of the sanctuary, that one faces east; and it was sealed.

Lord said to Ezekiel, “This gate will remain sealed and unopened, and no one will pass through it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, has passed through it. Therefore, it is to be kept sealed.

Only the prince, being a prince, is to sit there to eat his meal before the Lord; he is to enter through the vestibule of the gate and leave the same way.”

Then He took Ezekiel through the north gate to the front of the house. Ezekiel looked seeing the Lord's glory filling His house, and fell on his face.

The Lord said, “Human, pay attention; view with your eyes and hear with your ears everything I tell you about all the regulations of Adonai’s house and about all its Laws; pay attention to who can enter the house and who must be excluded from the sanctuary.

You are to tell the rebels, Israel, that this is what God Head says: House of Israel, enough of all your disgusting practices!

You brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in both heart and physically, to be in My sanctuary and profane it — yes, My house — when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; thus in addition to all your disgusting actions, they broke My covenant.

Instead of taking care of my holy things yourselves, you have placed these people in charge of My sanctuary.’

Here is what God Head says: ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in both heart and physically, is to enter My sanctuary — no foreigner residing among the people of Israel.

Rather, the Levites, who moved far away from Me when Israel rebelled, going after their idols — they will bear the consequences of their guilt,

but they are to serve in My sanctuary. They will have charge of the gates of the house and of serving in the house; they will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people; and they will attend and serve them.

Because they served them in the presence of their idols and became an occasion of sin for the house of Isra’el, I am raising my hand against them,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘and they will bear the consequences of their guilt.

They will not approach Me to serve Me as priests or approach any of the holy things or the Holy of holy things; but they will carry their shame for the disgusting practices they committed.

Yet I will put them in charge of the house and all its maintenance and everything to be done in it.

However, the priests, who are Levites and descendants of Zadok, who took care of My sanctuary when the people of Israel rebelled against Me — they are the ones who will approach Me and serve Me; they will attend Me and offer Me the fat and blood, says the God Head.

They will enter My sanctuary, approach My table to minister to Me and perform My service.

Once they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, they are to wear linen clothing; they are not to wear wool while serving at the gates of the inner courtyard or inside it.

They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen underclothes on their bodies, and they are not to wear anything that makes them perspire.

Before going out to the people in the outer courtyard, they are to remove the clothes in which they minister, lay them in the holy rooms, and put on different clothing. They won’t transmit holiness to the people their own clothing.

They are not to shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must keep their hair carefully trimmed.

No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.

They may not marry a widow or a divorcee but must marry virgins descended from the house of Israel or a widow whose deceased husband was a priest.

They are to instruct My people the difference between holy and common and enable them to distinguish between clean and unclean.

They are to be judges in controversies, and they are to render decisions in keeping with My rulings. At all my designated festivals they are to keep My laws and regulations, and they are to keep My sabbaths holy.

They are not to come to a dead person, because this would make them unclean; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister who has had no husband they may make themselves unclean.

After a priest has been purified, he is to wait one week.

Then, on the day he enters the sanctuary, when he goes into the inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer his sin offering,’ says The God Head.

Their inheritance is to be this: I Myself Am their inheritance. You are not to grant them any possession in Israel — I Myself Am their possession.

They are to eat the grain, sin and guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted to God will be theirs.

The first of all the firstfruits of everything, and every voluntary contribution of everything, from all your offerings, will be for the priests. You are also to give the priest the first of your dough, so that a blessing will rest on your house.

The priest are not to eat anything, bird or animal, that dies naturally or is ripped to death.



Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And he causeth me to turn back the way of the gate of the outer sanctuary that is looking eastward, and it is shut.

2 And Jehovah saith unto me, `This gate is shut, it is not opened, and none doth go in by it, for Jehovah, God of Israel, hath come in by it, and it hath been shut.

3 The prince, who [is] prince, he sitteth by it to eat bread before Jehovah, by the way of the porch of the gate he cometh in, and by its way he goeth out.'

4 And he bringeth me in the way of the north gate unto the front of the house, and I look, and lo, filled hath the honour of Jehovah the house of Jehovah, and I fall on my face.

5 And Jehovah saith unto me, `Son of man, set thy heart, and see with thine eyes, and with thine ears hear, all that I am speaking with thee, of all the statutes of the house of Jehovah, and of all its laws; and thou hast set thy heart to the entrance of the house, with all the outlets of the sanctuary,

6 and hast said unto the rebellious, unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- of all your abominations, O house of Israel.

7 In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,

8 and ye have not kept the charge of My holy things, and ye set [them] for keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you.

9 `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who [is] in the midst of the sons of Israel,

10 but -- the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

11 And they have been in My sanctuary ministrants, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministrants at the house; they slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they stand before them to serve them.

12 Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- and they have borne their iniquity.

13 And they draw not nigh unto Me to act as My priest, and to draw nigh unto any of My holy things, unto the holy of holies, and they have borne their shame and their abominations that they have done,

14 and I made them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that is done in it.

15 `And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of My sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off Me, they draw near unto Me to serve Me, and have stood before Me, to bring near to Me fat and blood -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah:

16 they come in unto My sanctuary, and they draw near unto My table to serve Me, and they have kept My charge.

17 And it hath come to pass, in their going in unto the gates of the inner court, linen garments they put on; and no wool cometh up on them in their ministering in the gates of the inner court and within.

18 Linen bonnets are on their head, and linen trousers are on their loins, they are not restrained with sweat.

19 And in their going forth unto the outer court -- unto the outer court unto the people -- they strip off their garments, in which they are ministering, and have placed them in the holy chambers, and have put on other garments; and they do not sanctify the people in their own garments.

20 And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth; they certainly poll their heads.

21 And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

22 And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but -- virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take.

23 `And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.

24 And concerning controversy, they stand up for judgment; with My judgments they judge it; and My law and My statutes in all My appointed places they keep; and My sabbaths they sanctify.

25 And unto any dead man they come not for uncleanness, but for father, and for mother, and for son, and for daughter, for brother, for sister who hath not been to a man, they defile themselves.

26 `And after his cleansing, seven days they number to him.

27 And in the day of his coming in unto the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he bringeth near his sin-offering -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

28 And it hath been to them for an inheritance; I [am] their inheritance: and a possession ye do not give to them in Israel; I [am] their possession.

29 The present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they do eat, and every devoted thing in Israel is theirs.

30 And the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every heave-offering of all, of all your heave-offerings, are the priests': and the first of your dough ye give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

31 Any carcase and torn thing, of the fowl, and of the beasts, the priests do not eat.

[_LittleNipper]

Ezekiel 45:1-25

“When you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you are to set aside an offering for the Lord, a holy portion of the land. Its length is to be eight miles and its width three miles; this entire area is to be holy.

Of this there is to be reserved for a holy spot an area 875 feet square, with 87.5 feet of open land around it.

Alongside this region you are to measure a length of eight miles and a width of three miles; within this will be the sanctuary, which will be very holy.

It is a holy portion of the land; for the priests who serve in the sanctuary, who approach to minister to the Lord; there will be a place for their houses and a location set aside for the sanctuary.

A portion eight by three miles will be owned by the Levites who serve in the house; it will also have twenty gatekeepers’ rooms.

You are to give the city possession of an area, alongside the offering of the holy portion, 1.5 by eight miles; it will be for all of Israel.

The prince is to have the territory on both sides of the holy offering and the city’s holding; it will extend westward to the western border of the land and eastward to its eastern border; and the length from the far side of one of its two parts to the far side of the other will be the same as the length of one of the tribal portions.

His possession in Israel will be limited to this, and henceforth my princes will not wrong my people but will give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

The God Head says this: Princes of Israel, that should be enough for you! Get rid of violence and looting, do what is right and just, and stop evicting my people from their land!’ says The God Head.

You are to have honest balance-scales, an honest ephah [a one-bushel dry-measure] and an honest bat [a five-gallon liquid-measure].

The ephah and the bat are to contain the same volume — the bat is to contain one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah is to contain one-tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard for measurement.

Also the shekel is to be twenty gerah -- the sum of a twenty-shekel piece, a twenty-five-shekel piece and a fifteen-shekel piece.

This is the offering you are to make: 1/6 of a bushel from every ten bushels of wheat, and you are to give 1/6 of a bushel from every ten bushels of barley.

The law for olive oil is to be half a gallon from every fifty gallons, which equals ten bats or one homer, since ten bats equal a homer.

From the flock, take one sheep from every 200 being pastured in Israel; these are to be used for grain offerings, burnt offerings and peace offerings, to make atonement for them,’ says God Head.

All the people in the land are to present this offering to the prince in Israel.

The prince’s obligation will be to present the burnt, grain and drink offerings at the feasts, on Rosh-Hodesh, and on Shabbat — at all the designated times of the house of Israel. He is to prepare the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.’

The God Head says this: On the 1st day of the 1st month you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.

The priest will take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door-frames of the house, on the four corners of the altar’s ledge and on the supports of the gate of the inner courtyard.

You are also to do this on the 7th day of the month for everyone who has sinned accidently or through ignorance. This way you will make atonement for the house.

On the 14 day of the 1st month you are to have the Passover, a feast 7 days long; matzah will be eaten.

On that day the prince will provide, for himself and for all the people of the land, a young bull as a sin offering.

On the 7 days of the feast he is to provide a burnt offering for the Lord, 7 young bulls and 7 rams without defect daily for the 7 days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering.

He is to provide as a grain offering a bushel of grain for a young bull and a bushel for a ram, and for each bushel of grain a gallon of olive oil.

On the 15 day of the 7th month, during the feast [of Sukkot] he is to do the same thing for those seven days in regard to the sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and olive oil."


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And in your causing the land to fall in inheritance, ye lift up a heave-offering to Jehovah, a holy [portion] of the land: the length -- five and twenty thousand [is] the length, and the breadth ten thousand; it [is] holy in all its border round about.

2 There is of this for the sanctuary five hundred by five hundred, square, round about; and fifty cubits of suburb [is] to it round about.

3 And by this measure thou dost measure: the length [is] five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand: and in it is the sanctuary, the holy of holies.

4 The holy [portion] of the land it [is]; for priests, ministrants of the sanctuary, it is, who are drawing near to serve Jehovah; and it hath been to them a place for houses, and a holy place for a sanctuary.

5 `And of the five and twenty thousand of length, and of the ten thousand of breadth, there is to the Levites, ministrants of the house, for them -- for a possession -- twenty chambers.

6 `And of the possession of the city ye give five thousand of breadth, and of length five and twenty thousand, over-against the heave-offering of the holy [portion]: to all the house of Israel it is.

7 As to the prince, on this side, and on that side, of the heave-offering of the holy place, and of the possession of the city, at the front of the heave-offering of the holy place, and at the front of the possession of the city, from the west corner westward, and from the east corner eastward -- and the length [is] over-against one of the portions from the west border unto the east border --

8 of the land there is to him for a possession in Israel, and My princes do not oppress any more My people, and the land they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

10 Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.

11 The ephah and the bath is of one measure, for the bath to bear a tenth of the homer, and the ephah a tenth of the homer: according to the homer is its measurement.

12 And, the shekel [is] twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh.

13 `This [is] the heave-offering that ye lift up; a sixth part of the ephah of a homer of wheat, also ye have given a sixth part of the ephah of a homer of barley,

14 and the portion of oil, the bath of oil, a tenth part of the bath out of the cor, a homer of ten baths -- for ten baths [are] a homer;

15 and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the watered country of Israel, for a present, and for a burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement by them -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

16 All the people of the land are at this heave-offering for the prince in Israel.

17 And on the prince are the burnt-offerings, and the present, and the libation, in feasts, and in new moons, and in sabbaths, in all appointed times of the house of Israel: he doth make the sin-offering, and the present, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

18 `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the first [month], in the first of the month, thou dost take a bullock, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and hast cleansed the sanctuary:

19 and the priest hath taken of the blood of the sin offering, and hath put on the door-post of the house, and on the four corners of the border of the altar, and on the post of the gate of the inner court.

20 And so thou dost do on the seventh of the month, because of each erring one, and because of the simple one -- and ye have purified the house.

21 `In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, ye have the passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened food is eaten.

22 And the prince hath prepared on that day, for himself, and for all the people of the land, a bullock, a sin-offering.

23 And the seven days of the feast he prepareth a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks, and seven rams, perfect ones, daily seven days, and a sin-offering, a kid of the goats, daily.

24 And a present of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, he doth prepare, and of oil a hin for an ephah.

25 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he doth according to these things seven days; as the sin-offering so the burnt-offering, and as the present so also the oil.

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Ezekiel 46:1-24

The God Head says: "The east gate of the inner courtyard is to be closed the six working days, but on Sabbath and on Rosh-Hodesh it is to be opened.

The prince is to enter by way of the outer vestibule of the gate and stand by the support of the gate. The priests are to prepare his burnt offering and peace offerings. Then he is to prostrate himself in worship at the threshold of the gate, after which he is to leave; but the gate is not to be closed until evening.

The people of the land are also to prostrate themselves in worship before God at the entrance to that gate on the Sabbath and Rosh-Hodesh.

The burnt offering the prince is to offer God on Sabbath is to consist of six lambs and a ram all without defect.

The grain offering is to be a bushel for the ram, while for the lambs it can be as much as he wants to give; with a gallon of olive oil per ephah.

On Rosh-Hodesh it is to be a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect.

He is to prepare a grain offering consisting of one bushel for the bull, one bushel for the ram, and for the lambs as his wealth permits; with a gallon of olive oil per bushel.

When the prince enters, he is to go in by way of the vestibule of the gate, and leave the same way.

But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the designated times, whoever comes in to worship by way of the north gate is to leave out the south gate, and whoever comes in by way of the south gate is to leave out the north gate; he is not to go back out through the gate by which he entered but is to exit straight through.

On these occasions, the prince is to be among them when they enter; and when they leave, they are to leave together.

At the festivals and at designated times, the grain offering is to be one bushel for a young bull and one for a ram, while for the lambs it can be as much as he wants to give, with a gallon of olive oil per bushel.

When the prince provides a voluntary offering, whether it is a burnt offering or peace offerings that he offers voluntarily to Lord, someone is to open the east gate for him; and he is to provide his burnt offering and peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath. Then he will leave; and after he leaves, the gate is to be closed.

You are to provide a lamb in its first year that has no defect for a daily burnt offering to Lord; do this each morning.

Also each morning, provide with it a grain offering, one-sixth of a bushel, and one-third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the fine flour; this is the ongoing grain offering for the Lord, by a permanent regulation.

Thus they will offer a lamb, a grain offering and oil each morning as a continuous burnt offering."

The God Head says this: "If the prince turns over part of his hereditary property to one of his sons, being his inheritance; it will belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

But if he gives part of his hereditary property to one of his slaves, it will be his until the year of freedom, at which time it will revert to the prince, so that the prince’s heritage will go to his sons.

The prince is not to take over any of the people’s inheritance, thereby evicting them wrongfully from their property; he is to give his sons an inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people will be driven from their property.’”

Next, He brought Ezekiel through the entry at the side of the gate into the holy rooms facing north that were for the priests. At their far west end I saw a place

of which He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offerings and sin offerings and bake the grain offerings. In this way they will not bring it out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”

He took me into the outer courtyard and had me pass by the four corners of the courtyard, and there in each corner of the courtyard was another courtyard

in the four corners of the courtyard were enclosed courtyards 70 feet long; the four courtyards in the corners were the same size.

There was a wall around each of the four, with open stoves all around the bases of the walls.

He told Ezekiel, “These are the stoves where those serving in the house will boil the people’s sacrifices.”


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that is looking eastward is shut the six days of work, and on the day of rest it is opened, and in the day of the new moon it is opened;

2 and come in hath the prince the way of the porch of the gate at the outside, and he hath stood by the post of the gate, and the priests have made his burnt-offering, and his peace-offerings, and he hath bowed himself by the opening of the gate, and hath gone forth, and the gate is not shut till the evening.

3 And bowed themselves have the people of the land at the opening of that gate, on sabbaths, and on new moons, before Jehovah.

4 `And the burnt-offering that the prince bringeth near to Jehovah on the day of rest [is] six lambs, perfect ones, and a ram, a perfect one.

5 And the present [is] an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs a present, the gift of his hand, and of oil a hin for an ephah.

6 And on the day of the new moon a bullock, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and six lambs and a ram, they are perfect.

7 And with an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, he prepareth a present, and for the lambs as his hand attaineth, and of oil a hin for an ephah.

8 `And in the coming in of the prince, the way of the porch of the gate he cometh in, and by its way he goeth out.

9 And in the coming in of the people of the land before Jehovah at appointed times, he who hath come in the way of the north gate to bow himself, goeth out the way of the south gate, and he who hath come in the way of the south gate, goeth out by the way of the north gate: he doth not turn back the way of the gate by which he came in, but over-against it he goeth out.

10 And the prince in their midst in their coming in cometh in, and in their going out he goeth out.

11 `And in feasts, and in appointed times, the present is an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for lambs the gift of his hand, and of oil a hin for an ephah.

12 And when the prince maketh a free-will burnt-offering, or free-will peace-offerings, to Jehovah, then he hath opened for himself the gate that is looking eastward, and he hath made his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings as he doth in the day of rest, and he hath gone out, and he hath shut the gate after his going out.

13 `And a lamb, son of a year, a perfect one, thou dost make a burnt-offering daily to Jehovah; morning by morning thou dost make it.

14 And a present thou dost make for it morning by morning, a sixth part of the ephah, and of oil a third part of the hin, to temper with the fine flour, a present to Jehovah, by a statute age-during -- continually;

15 and prepare ye the lamb, and the present, and the oil, morning by morning, a continual burnt-offering.

16 `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: When the prince giveth a gift to any of his sons, his inheritance it [is], to his sons it [is]; their possession it [is] by inheritance.

17 And when he giveth a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it hath been to him till the year of freedom, and it hath turned back to the prince, only the inheritance of his sons is theirs.

18 And the prince doth not take of the inheritance of the people to oppress them, out of their possession, out of his own possession he doth cause his sons to inherit, so that My people are not scattered each from his possession.'

19 And he bringeth me in through the entrance that [is] by the side of the gate, unto the holy chambers, unto the priests, that are looking northward, and lo, there [is] a place in their two sides westward.

20 And he saith unto me, `This [is] the place where the priests do boil the guilt-offering and the sin-offering, where they bake the present, so as not to bring [it] out unto the outer court, to sanctify the people.'

21 And he bringeth me out unto the outer court, and causeth me to pass over unto the four corners of the court, and lo, a court in a corner of the court, a court in a corner of the corner.

22 In the four corners of the court [are] perfume courts, forty long, and thirty broad, one measure [is] to the four corners.

23 And a row [is] round about in them, round about to them four, and made with boilers under the rows round about.

24 And he saith unto me, `These [are] the houses of those boiling where the ministrants of the house boil the sacrifice of the people.'