3+ tured. 4 orna 6 stories, so as to look through: and the dred cubits in length toward the house and the parts adjoining were north, and in breadth fifty, planked round about, and so was the mented accordingly as the + Or, sculpfloor, and from the floor up to the gates of the inner court, windows, and the window shutters and arranged accordingly as the perifolded back in three parts for one to styles of the outer court, with triple look through. And almost all the porticos fronting one another. And way to the inner, and close to the in front of the chambers was a walk outer side, and upon all the wall round ten cubits in breadth, the length reachabout within and without, 18 were ing to a hundred cubits; and their carved cherubs and palm-trees between doors were northward. 5 And the the cherubs, and each cherub had two upper walks were in like manner: for faces. 19 The face of a man was toward the peristyle projected from it, even one palm-tree on this side and on that from the range of columns below, and side, and the face of a lion toward there was a space between; so were another palm-tree on this side and on there a peristyle and a space between, that side: the house was carved all and so were there two porticos. For round. 20 From the floor to the ceiling they were triple, and they had not were cherubs and palm-trees carved. pillars like the pillars of the outer ones: 21 And the holy place and the temple therefore they projected from the lower opened on four sides; in front of the ones and the middle ones from the holy places the appearance was as the ground. And there was light withlook of 22 a wooden altar, the height of out, corresponding to the chambers of it three cubits, and the length two the outer court looking toward the cubits, and the breadth two cubits; front of the northern chambers; the and it had horns, and the base of it length of them was fifty cubits. For and the sides of it were of wood: and the length of the chambers looking he said to me, This is the table, which toward the inner court was fifty cubits, is before the face of the Lord. 23 And and these are the ones that front the the temple had two doors, and the others; the whole was a hundred sanctuary had two doors, with two cubits. And there were doors of these turning leaves apiece; 24 two leaves to chambers for an outlet towards the the one, and two leaves to the other east, so that one should go through door. 25 And there was carved work them out of the outer court, 10 by the upon them, and cherubs on the doors opening of the walk at the corner; of the temple, and palm-trees according and the south parts were tor, entrance. + Gr. plural. to the carving of the 'sanc- toward the south, toward Graph. tuary; and there were stout planks in the remaining space, and biguous, front of the porch without. 26 And toward the partition, and so were the there were secret windows; and he chambers. 11 And the walk was in measured from side to side, to the Alex. uw roofing of the porch; and the sides of the house were μένα. 42. And he brought me into the + Heb. & Alex. inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate: and he brought me in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition, a hun 9 + 8 Heb. DP, am front of them, according to the measures of the chambers toward the north, both according to the length of them, and according to the breadth of them, and according to all their openings, and according to all their turnings, and according to their lights, and according to their doors. 12 So were the measures of the chambers towards the south, and according to the doors at the entrance of the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them. + 13 And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, in front of the void spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, wherein the priests the sons of Sadduc, who draw nigh to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat-offering, and the +i. e. for sins sin-offerings, and the tresof ignorance. pass-offerings; because the place is holy. 14 None shall go in thither except the priests, and they shall not go forth of the holy place into the outer court, that they that draw nigh to me may be continually holy, and may not touch their garments in which they minister, with defilement, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they come in contact with the people. 15 So the measurement of the house within was accomplished: and he brought me forth by the way of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order. 16 And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. 17 And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. 18 And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the + Gr. of the west side, five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. 19 And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed. 20 The four sides he measured by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumference of the parts round about, a space of five hundred cubits eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuary and the outer wall, that belonged to the design of the house. sea. 43. Moreover he brought me to the gate looking eastward, and led me forth. 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. And the glory of the Lord came into the house, by the way of the gate looking castward. "And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory. "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 +Gr. footstep. feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for 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 sc. passively. the midst of them; 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 More lit they profaned my holy them. name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter. 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, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and show its aspect and the arrangement of it. And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have done: and thou shalt + + Alex. KaTα koel. ever; and itself to me and goings out and is the law of + Alex. thou hast finished. describe the house, and its 'entrances, upon the four corners of the proAlex. lit. its and the plan thereof, and pitiatory, and upon the base round its comings in. all its ordinances, and thou about, and they shall make atonement shalt make known to them all the for it. 21And they shall take the calf regulations of it, and describe them of the sin-offering, and it shall be before them: and they shall keep all consumed by fire in the separate place my commandments, and all my ordi- of the house, outside the sanctuary. nances, and do them. 12 And thou 22And on the second day they shall shalt show the plan of the house on take two kids of the goats without the top of the mountain: all its limits blemish for a sin-offering; + Gr. for sin. round about shall be most holy. 13+And and they shall make atonement for the Alex.+this these are the measures of altar, as they made atonement with the house.' the altar by the cubit of a the calf. 23 And after * they cubit and a span, the cavity shall be a have finished the atonecubit deep, and a cubit shall be the ment, they shall bring an unblemished breadth, and the border on the rim of calf of the herd, and an unblemished it round about shall be a span: and ram of the flock. 24 And ye shall offer this shall be the height of the altar them before the Lord, and the priests 14 from the bottom at the commencement shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall of the hollow part to this great mercy-offer them up as whole-burnt-offerings seat, from beneath was two cubits, and to the Lord. 25 Seven days shalt thou the breadth was a cubit; and from the offer a kid daily for a sin-offering, and little mercy-seat to the great mercy-a calf of the herd, and a ram out of the seat, four cubits, and the breadth was flock: they shall sacrifice them una cubit. 15 And the altar blemished for seven days: 26 and they Heb. Arel, i. e. shall be four cubits; and shall make atonement for the altar, and from the altar and above shall purge it; and they shall consethe horns a cubit. 16 And the altar crate themselves. 27 And + Gr. fill their shall be of the length of twelve cubits, it shall come to pass from hands. by twelve cubits in breadth, square upon its four sides. 17And the mercyseat 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. + Gr. Ariel, the mountain of God. 18 And he said to me, Son of man, thus says 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, says 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 + More lit. for sin. + the eighth day and onward, that the priests shall offer your whole-burntofferings on the altar, and your peaceofferings; and I will accept you, says the Lord. 44. Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that looks eastward; and it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no one shall pass through it; for the Lord God of Israel shall enter by it, and it shall be shut. For the prince, he shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord; he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go forth by the way of the same. And he brought me in by the way of the gate that looks northward, in front of the house: and I looked, and, behold, the house was full of the + Alex. my bread. kept the charge 8 + they shall ap holy of holies: but they shall bear their t glory of the Lord: and I fell upon my face. And the Lord said to me, Son of man, attend with thine heart, and see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say to thee, according to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the regu- 15 The priests the Levites, the sons lations thereof; and thou shalt attend of Sadduc, who kept the charges of well to the entrance of the house, ac- my sanctuary when the house of Israel cording to all its outlets, in all the went astray from me, these shall draw holy things. And thou shalt say to nigh to me to minister to me, and the provoking house, even to the house shall stand before my face, to offer of Israel, Thus says the Lord God; sacrifice to me, the fat and the blood, Let it suffice you to have committed all says the Lord God. 16 These shall your iniquities, O house of Israel! enter into my sanctuary, and these That ye have brought in aliens, un- shall approach my table, to minister circumcised in heart, and uncircumcised to me, and they shall keep my charges. + Gr. plural. in flesh, to be in my 'sanc-17 And it shall come to pass when they tuary, and to profane it, when ye offered enter the gates of the inner court, *bread, flesh, and blood; that they shall put on linen + Aler.+ and and ye transgressed my robes; and they shall not within." covenant by all your iniquities; and put on woollen garments when they + Aler. + And ye appointed others to keep minister at the gate of the inner court. ye have not the charges in my sanc- 18 And they shall have linen mitres of my holy tuary. Therefore thus upon their heads, and shall have linen things.'. says the Lord God; No drawers upon their loins; and they alien, uncircumcised in heart, or un- shall not tightly gird themselves. circumcised in flesh shall enter into 19 And when they go out into the outer my sanctuary, of all the children of court to the people, they shall put off strangers that are in the midst of the their robes, in which they minister; house of Israel. 10 But as for the and they shall lay them up in the Levites who departed far from me chambers of the sanctuary, and shall when Israel went astray from me after put on other robes, and they shall not their imaginations, they shall even sanctify the people with their robes. bear their iniquity. "Yet they shall 20And they shall not shave their heads, minister in my sanctuary, being porters nor shall they pluck off their hair; at the gates of the house, and serving they shall carefully cover their heads. the house: they shall slay the victims 21And no priest shall drink any wine, and the whole-burnt-offerings for the when they go into the inner court. people, and they shall stand before the 22 Neither shall they take to themselves people to minister to them. 12 Because to wife a widow, or one that is put they ministered to them before their away, but a virgin of the seed of idols, and it became to the house of Israel: but if there should happen to Israel a punishment of iniquity; there- be a priest's widow, they shall take fore have I lifted up my hand against her. 23 And they shall teach my people Alex.+so them, says the Lord God. to distinguish between holy and pro13 And they shall not draw fane, and they shall make known to dishonour.' nigh to me to minister to them the difference between unclean me in the priests' office, nor to approach and clean. 24 And these + Or, capital Or, sanctuary. the 'holy things of the shall attend at a judgment children of Israel, nor to approach my of blood to decide it: they shall rightly shall they receive their cases. observe my ordinances, and judge my judgments, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. 25 And they shall not go in to the 'dead + Gr. lit. soul. body of a man to defile themselves: only a priest may defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister, who has not been married. 26 And after he has been cleansed, let him number to himself seven days. 27 And on whatsoever day they shall enter into the inner court to minister in the holy place, they shall bring a propitiation, says the Lord God. 28 And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and no possession shall be given them among the children of Israel; for I am their possession. 29 And these shall eat the meat-offerings, and the sin-offerings, and the trespassofferings; and every special offering in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the firstfruits of all things, and the first-born of all animals and all offerings, of all your first-fruits there shall be a share for the priests; and ye shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses. 31And the priests shall eat no bird or beast that dies of itself, or is taken of wild beasts. 45. And when ye measure the land for inheritance, ye shall set apart firstfruits to the Lord, a holy space of the land, in length twenty and five thousand reeds, and in breadth twenty thousand; it shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 And + Gr. plural. there shall be a sanctuary out of this, five hundred reeds in length by five hundred in breadth, a square round about; and there shall be a vacant + Gr. them. space beyond this of fifty cubits round about. 3 And out of this measurement shalt thou measure the length five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and in + + 5 6 4 it shall be the holy of holies. Of the land shall be a portion for the priests that minister in the holy place, and it shall be for them that draw nigh to minister to the Lord: and it shall be to them a place for houses set apart for their sacred office; the Gr. sanctilength shall be twenty-five fication. thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession. And ye shall appoint for the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and in length twenty-five thousand: after the manner of the first-fruits of the holy portion, they shall be for all the house of Israel. And the prince shall have a portion out of this, and out of this there shall be a por- Gr. perhaps, tion for the first-fruits of and from the the sanctuary, and for the this.' possession of the city, in front of the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and in front of the possession of the city + part next to westward, and from the +Lit. seaward. western parts eastward: and the length shall be equal to one of the parts of the western borders, and the length shall be to the eastern borders of the land. 8 And he shall have it for a possession in Israel: and the princes of Israel shall no more oppress my people; but the house of Israel shall inherit the land according to their tribes. Thus says the Lord God; Let it suffice you, ye princes of Israel: remove injustice and misery, execute judgment and justice; take away oppression from my people, says the Lord God. 10 Ye shall have a just balance, and a just measure, and a just choenix for measure. 11 And in like manner there shall be one choenix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the gomor shall be the choenix, and the tenth of the gomor shall be in fair proportion to the gomor. 12 And the weights shall be twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels. 13 And these |
