43Ezekiel 43

CHAP. XLIII. / 1 The returning of the glory of God into the Temple. 7 The sinne of Israel hindered Gods presence. 10 The Prophet exhorteth them to repentance, and obseruation of the Law of the house.

1Afterward he brought me to the gate, euen the gate that looketh toward the East.Select Ezekiel 43:1

2And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East: and his voice was like a noise of many waters, and the earth shined with his glory.Select Ezekiel 43:2

3And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, euen according to the vision that I saw, when I came to destroy the citie: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the riuer Chebar: and I fell vpon my face.Select Ezekiel 43:3

4And the glorie of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate, whose prospect is toward the East.Select Ezekiel 43:4

5So the Spirit tooke me vp, and brought mee into the inner court, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.Select Ezekiel 43:5

6And I heard him speaking vnto me out of the house, & the man stood by me.Select Ezekiel 43:6

7And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feete, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for euer, and my holy Name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredome, nor by the carkeises of their kings in their high places.Select Ezekiel 43:7

8In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my postes, and the wall betweene me and them, they haue euen defiled my holy Name by their abominations that they haue committed: wherefore I haue consumed them in mine anger.Select Ezekiel 43:8

9Now let them put away their whoredome, and the carkeises of their kings farre from me, and I wil dwell in the middest of them for euer.Select Ezekiel 43:9

10Thou sonne of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the patterne.Select Ezekiel 43:10

11And if they be ashamed of all that they haue done; shew them the forme of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the commings in thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the lawes thereof: & write it in their sight, that they may keepe the whole forme thereof, and all the Ordinances therof, and doe them.Select Ezekiel 43:11

12This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountaine, the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy: behold, this is the law of the house.Select Ezekiel 43:12

13And these are the measures of the Altar after the cubites; the cubite is a cubite and an hand breadth, euen the bottom shalbe a cubite, and the breadth a cubite, and the border thereof by the edge therof round about shalbe a spanne, and this shalbe the higher place of the Altar.Select Ezekiel 43:13

14And from the bottom vpon the ground, euen to the lower settle, shalbe two cubits, and the breadth one cubite, and from the lesser settle euen to the greater settle shalbe foure cubites, and the breadth one cubite.Select Ezekiel 43:14

15So the Altar shalbe foure cubites, and from the altar and vpward shalbe foure hornes.Select Ezekiel 43:15

16And the altar shalbe twelue cubites long, twelue broad, square in the foure squares thereof.Select Ezekiel 43:16

17And the settle shall bee fourteene cubites long, and fourteene broad in the foure squares thereof, and the border about it shalbe halfe a cubite, and the bottome thereof shall be a cubite about, and his staires shall looke toward the East.Select Ezekiel 43:17

18And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God, These are the ordinances of the Altar in the day when they shall make it to offer burnt offrings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.Select Ezekiel 43:18

19And thou shalt giue to the Priests the Leuites that be of the seede of Zadok, which approch vnto me, to minister vnto me, saith the Lord God, a yong bullocke for a sinne offering.Select Ezekiel 43:19

20And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the foure hornes of it, and on the foure corners of the settle, and vpon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.Select Ezekiel 43:20

21Thou shalt take the bullocke also of the sinne offering, and he shall burne it in the appointed place of the house without the Sanctuary.Select Ezekiel 43:21

22And on the second day thou shalt offer a kidde of the goats without blemish for a sinne offering, and they shall cleanse the Altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullocke.Select Ezekiel 43:22

23When thou hast made an ende of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a yong bullocke without blemish, and a ramme out of the flocke, without blemish.Select Ezekiel 43:23

24And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the Priests shall cast salt vpon them, and they shall offer them vp for a burnt offering vnto the Lord.Select Ezekiel 43:24

25Seuen dayes shalt thou prepare euery day a goate for a sinne offering: they shall also prepare a yong bullocke, and a ramme out of the flocke, without blemish.Select Ezekiel 43:25

26Seuen dayes shal they purge the Altar and purifie it, and they shall consecrate themselues.Select Ezekiel 43:26

27And when these dayes are expired, it shall be that vpon the eight day and so forward, the Priests shall make your burnt offerings vpon the Altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord God.Select Ezekiel 43:27