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 Ezekiel 43 
1   Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh 
toward the east: 
2   And, 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. 
3   And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, 
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the 
visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my 
face. 
4   And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the 
gate whose prospect is toward the east. 
5   So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; 
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 
6   And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man 
stood by me. 
7   And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the 
place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children 
of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, 
neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their 
kings in their high places. 
8   In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their 
post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my 
holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have 
consumed them in mine anger. 
9   Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their 
kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 
10   Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that 
they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 
11   And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the 
form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the 
comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, 
and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their 
sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances 
thereof, and do them. 
12   This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the 
whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of 
the house. 
13   And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The 
cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the 
breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be 
a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 
14   And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle 
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even 
to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 
15   So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward 
shall be four horns. 
16   And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square 
in the four squares thereof. 
17   And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad 
in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and 
the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the 
east. 
18   And he said unto me, Son 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 offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 
19   And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the 
seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, 
a young bullock for a sin offering. 
20   And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four 
horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round 
about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. 
21   Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he 
shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. 
22   And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats 
without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they 
did cleanse it with the bullock. 
23   When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a 
young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 
24   And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall 
cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the 
LORD. 
25   Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin 
offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, 
without blemish. 
26   Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they 
shall consecrate themselves. 
27   And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the 
eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the 
altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD. 
 
  
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