KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 43
The returning of the glory of Jehovah to the temple. The prophet exhorts Israel to repentance.
1And he made me go to the gate, the gate that faces the way of the east.
2And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. And His voice was like the voice of many waters; and the earth shone from His glory.
3And the appearance of the vision which I saw was as the appearance which I saw when I came to destroy the city, and as the appearance that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
4And the glory of Jehovah came into the house, the way of the gate of which the face is the way of the east.
5And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court. And, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house!
6And I heard One speaking to me from the house, and a Man was standing beside me.
7And He said to me, Son of man, the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, there where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever, even the house of Israel shall not defile My holy name any more, they and their kings, by their fornication, and by the corpses of their kings in their high places.
8In their putting of their threshold by My threshold, and their door post beside My door post, and the wall between Me and them, even they have defiled My holy name by their disgusting things that they have done. And I consumed them in My anger.
9Now let them put away their fornications and the corpses of their kings from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.
10You, son of man, declare to the house of Israel the temple house, and they will blush from their iniquities. And let them measure its size.
11And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, the form of the house, and its arrangement, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its statutes, and all its forms, and all its laws, make them known to them. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe all its form, and all its statutes, and do them.
12This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain is all its border, round about and round about, being most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
13And these are the measures of the altar by the cubit: the cubit is a cubit and a span, even the base shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border on its lip round about shall be one span; and this is the high part of the altar.
14And from the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit. And from the smaller ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit.
15And the altar hearth shall be four cubits, and from the altar hearth and upward shall be four horns.
16And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long, and twelve wide, square in its four sides.
17And the ledge shall be fourteen long, fourteen wide, in its four sides. And the border around it shall be a half cubit, and the base for it a cubit round about. And its steps shall face the east.
18And He said to me, Son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah: These are the statutes of the altar in the day of its being made to offer on it burnt offerings, and to sprinkle on it blood.
19And you shall give to the priests of the Levites (they who are from the seed of Zadok, who approach to Me) a statement of the Lord Jehovah, to minister to Me, a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering.
20And you shall take of its blood and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about. And you shall cleanse it and atone for it.
21And you shall take the bull of the sin offering, and he shall burn it at the appointed place of the house outside the sanctuary.
22And on the second day you shall bring a buck of the goats without blemish for a sin offering. And they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
23When you have finished cleansing, you shall bring a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and a ram without blemish out of the flock.
24And you shall bring them before Jehovah, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them for a burnt offering to Jehovah.
25For seven days you shall daily prepare a he-goat for a sin offering. And they shall prepare a bull, a son of the herd, and a ram out of the flock, ones without blemish.
26They shall atone seven days for the altar, and cleanse it, and consecrate it.
27And when the days are completed, it shall be on the eighth day and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, on the altar. And I will accept you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
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