10 September - Ezekiel 42-43

Jude Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:02 am

My soul doth magnify my YAH, and my spirit hath rejoiced in EL my Saviour; For HE that is mighty hath done to me great things; and Holy is HIS Name. Now unto HIM who is ever present in my helpless estate; who is able to keep me from falling and to present me faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise EL our Saviour be honour and glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever Halleluyah!

EZEKIEL 42

1And he brought me out into the outer courtyard, the way toward the north. And he brought me into the room which was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building to the north.

2Along the length which was one hundred cubits, was the north door, the width was fifty cubits.

3Opposite the inner courtyard of twenty cubits, and opposite the pavement of the outer courtyard, gallery against gallery in three levels.

4And before the rooms, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, a way of one cubit. And their doors were to the north.

5And the upper rooms were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle levels of the building.

6For they were in three levels and had no columns like the columns of the courtyards, so the upper level was set back more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up.

7As for the outer wall by the side of the rooms, toward the outer courtyard facing the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

8For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and that facing the Hĕḵal was one hundred cubits.

9And below these rooms was the entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer courtyard.

10In the thickness of the wall of the courtyard toward the east, opposite the separate place and opposite the building, were rooms.

11And the way in front of them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north, as long and as wide as the others, and all their exits and entrances were according to plan.

12And according to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south, there was a door in front of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them.

13And he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are opposite the separate place, are the set-apart rooms where the priests who approach יהוה eat the most set-apart offerings. There they place the most set-apart items, and the grain offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is set-apart.

14“When the priests enter, they are not to go out of the set-apart room into the outer courtyard, but leave their garments in which they attend there, for they are set-apart, and shall put on other garments and shall draw near to that which is for the people.”

15And when he had ended measuring the inner House, he brought me out through the gate that faces east, and measured it all around.

16He measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

17He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

18He measured the south side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

19He turned round to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

20On the four sides he measured it. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred wide, to separate the set-apart places from the common.

EZEKIEL 43

1And he led me to the gate, the gate facing east.

2And see, the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl came from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone from His esteem.

3And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Keḇar, and I fell on my face.

4And the esteem of יהוה came into the House by way of the gate facing east.

5And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. And see, the esteem of יהוה filled the House.

6And I heard someone speaking to me from the House, while a man stood beside me.

7And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, when I dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl forever, and the house of Yisra’ĕl shall no longer defile My set-apart Name, they nor their sovereigns, by their whoring and by the corpses of their sovereigns on their high places.

8“When they placed their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My set-apart Name by the abominations which they have done. So I consumed them in My displeasure.

9“Now let them put their whoring and the corpses of their sovereigns far away from Me, and I shall dwell in their midst forever.

10“Son of man, explain the House to the house of Yisra’ĕl, and when they are ashamed of their crookednesses, they shall measure the measurements.

11“And since they shall be ashamed of all that they did, make known to them the design of the House and its structure, and its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its laws, and all its forms and all its Torot. And write it down before their eyes, so that they observe its entire design and all its laws, and shall do them.

12“This is the Torah of the House: Upon the mountaintop, all the boundary of it, all around, is most set-apart. See, this is the Torah of the House.

13“And these are the measurements of the altar in cubits, that cubit being one cubit and a handbreadth, and the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. And this is the upper part of the altar.

14“And from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, and the width of the ledge one cubit, and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge four cubits, and the width of the ledge one cubit.

15“And the altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns extending upward from the hearth.

16“And the altar hearth is twelve cubits long, and twelve wide, square at its four corners.

17“And the ledge is fourteen long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it, and its base one cubit all around, and its steps face east.”

18And He said to me, “Son of man, thus said the Master יהוה, ‘These are the laws for the altar on the day when it is made, for offering burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

19‘And you shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Lĕwites, who are of the seed of Tsaḏoq, who approach unto Me,’ declares the Master יהוה.

20‘And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it, and shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

21‘And you shall take the bull of the sin offering, and shall burn it in the appointed place of the House, outside the set-apart place.

22‘And on the second day you bring a male goat, a perfect one, for a sin offering. And they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

23‘When you have ended cleansing it, bring a young bull, a perfect one, and a ram from the flock, a perfect one.

24‘And you shall bring them before יהוה, and the priests shall throw salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to יהוה.

25‘Prepare a goat for a sin offering daily for seven days, and prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, perfect ones.

26‘For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and ordain it.

27‘And when these days are completed it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests make your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar, and I shall accept you,’ declares the Master יהוה.”