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Ezekiel 40:1

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on this very day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there.

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Ezekiel 40:2

In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was something like a structure of a city.

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Ezekiel 40:3

So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a thread of flax and a measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.

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Ezekiel 40:4

And the man said to me, "Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see."

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Ezekiel 40:5

And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the temple all around, and in the man's hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a hand width. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

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Ezekiel 40:6

Then he went to the gate which faced east, went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod in width; and the other threshold was one rod in width.

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Ezekiel 40:7

The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was one rod.

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Ezekiel 40:8

Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

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Ezekiel 40:9

And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.

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Ezekiel 40:10

The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side.

Ezekiel 40:11

And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

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Ezekiel 40:12

There was a barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side.

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Ezekiel 40:13

And he measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, from one door to the door opposite.

Ezekiel 40:14

He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended all around to the side pillar of the courtyard.

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Ezekiel 40:15

And from the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel 40:16

And there were shuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And there were windows all around inside; and on each side pillar were palm tree decorations.

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Ezekiel 40:17

Then he brought me into the outer courtyard, and behold, there were chambers and a stone pavement made for the courtyard all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

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Ezekiel 40:18

And the pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

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Ezekiel 40:19

Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner courtyard, a hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

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Ezekiel 40:20

And as for the gate of the outer courtyard which faced north, he measured its length and its width.

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Ezekiel 40:21

It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

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Ezekiel 40:22

Its windows, its porches, and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as the gate which faced east; and it was reached by seven steps, and its porch was in front of them.

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Ezekiel 40:23

The inner courtyard had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a hundred cubits from gate to gate.

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Ezekiel 40:24

Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to those same measurements.

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Ezekiel 40:25

The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width, twenty-five cubits.

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Ezekiel 40:26

There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree decorations on its side pillars, one on each side.

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Ezekiel 40:27

The inner courtyard had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

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Ezekiel 40:28

Then he brought me to the inner courtyard by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.

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Ezekiel 40:29

Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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Ezekiel 40:30

There were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

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Ezekiel 40:31

And its porches were toward the outer courtyard; and palm tree decorations were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.

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Ezekiel 40:32

Then he brought me into the inner courtyard toward the east. And he measured the gate according to those same measurements.

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Ezekiel 40:33

Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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Ezekiel 40:34

Its porches were toward the outer courtyard; and palm tree decorations were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

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Ezekiel 40:35

Then he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements,

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Ezekiel 40:36

with its guardrooms, its side pillars, and its porches. And the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

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Ezekiel 40:37

And its side pillars were toward the outer courtyard; and palm tree decorations were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

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Ezekiel 40:38

A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

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Ezekiel 40:39

And in the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering.

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Ezekiel 40:40

On the outer side, as one went up to the gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables.

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Ezekiel 40:41

Four tables were on each side next to the gate; eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices.

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Ezekiel 40:42

For the burnt offering there were four tables of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high, on which they set the utensils with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

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Ezekiel 40:43

And the double hooks, one hand width in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

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Ezekiel 40:44

From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner courtyard, one of which was at the side of the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one at the side of the south gate facing north.

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Ezekiel 40:45

Then he said to me, "This is the chamber which faces south, intended for the priests who are responsible for the temple;

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Ezekiel 40:46

but the chamber which faces north is for the priests who are responsible for the altar. They are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the LORD to serve Him."

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Ezekiel 40:47

He measured the courtyard, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the temple.

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Ezekiel 40:48

Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side.

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Ezekiel 40:49

The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.

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Ezekiel 41:1

Then he brought me to the sanctuary, and he measured the side pillars: six cubits wide on each side was the width of the side pillar.

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Ezekiel 41:2

The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the sanctuary, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

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Ezekiel 41:3

Then he went inside and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.

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Ezekiel 41:4

And he measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the sanctuary; and he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."

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Ezekiel 41:5

Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

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Ezekiel 41:6

The side chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself.

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Ezekiel 41:7

And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the second story.

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Ezekiel 41:8

I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.

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Ezekiel 41:9

The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple

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Ezekiel 41:10

and the outer chambers was twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side.

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Ezekiel 41:11

The doorways of the side chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all around.

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Ezekiel 41:12

The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

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Ezekiel 41:13

Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

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Ezekiel 41:14

Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

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Ezekiel 41:15

And he measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard.

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Ezekiel 41:16

The thresholds, the latticed windows, and the galleries all around their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

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Ezekiel 41:17

over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.

Ezekiel 41:18

It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces:

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Ezekiel 41:19

a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around.

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Ezekiel 41:20

From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the sanctuary.

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Ezekiel 41:21

The doorposts of the sanctuary were square; as for the front of the inner sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.

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Ezekiel 41:22

The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; its corners, its base, and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

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Ezekiel 41:23

The sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.

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Ezekiel 41:24

Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

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Ezekiel 41:25

Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the main room, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.

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Ezekiel 41:26

And there were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; the same were on the side chambers of the house and the thresholds.

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Ezekiel 42:1

Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the separate area and opposite the building toward the north.

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Ezekiel 42:2

Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

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Ezekiel 42:3

Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner courtyard, and opposite the stone pavement which belonged to the outer courtyard, was gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories.

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Ezekiel 42:4

In front of the chambers was an inner passage ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

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Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

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Ezekiel 42:6

For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; for that reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

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Ezekiel 42:7

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

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Ezekiel 42:8

For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a hundred cubits.

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Ezekiel 42:9

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

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Ezekiel 42:10

In the thickness of the wall of the courtyard toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers.

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Ezekiel 42:11

And the way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north; according to their length, so was their width, and all their exits were according to their building plans and openings.

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Ezekiel 42:12

Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them.

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Ezekiel 42:13

Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, they are the holy chambers where the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall set the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

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Ezekiel 42:14

"When the priests enter, they shall not go out into the outer courtyard from the sanctuary without laying their garments there in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people."

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Ezekiel 42:15

Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by way of the gate which faced east, and measured it all around.

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Ezekiel 42:16

He measured on the east side with the measuring rod: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

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Ezekiel 42:17

He measured on the north side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

Ezekiel 42:18

On the south side he measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod.

Ezekiel 42:19

He turned to the west side and measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod.

Ezekiel 42:20

He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred rods and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the common.

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Ezekiel 43:1

Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east;

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Ezekiel 43:2

and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone from His glory.

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Ezekiel 43:3

And 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 Chebar; and I fell on my face.

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Ezekiel 43:4

And the glory of the LORD entered the house by way of the gate facing east.

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Ezekiel 43:5

And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner courtyard; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

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Ezekiel 43:6

Then I heard Him speaking to me from the house, while a man was standing beside me.

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Ezekiel 43:7

And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the corpses of their kings when they die,

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Ezekiel 43:8

by putting their threshold by My threshold, and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger.

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Ezekiel 43:9

"Now let them remove their prostitution and the corpses of their kings far from Me, and I will dwell among them forever.

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Ezekiel 43:10

"As for you, son of man, inform the house of Israel of the temple, so that they will be ashamed of their wrongdoings; and have them measure the plan.

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Ezekiel 43:11

"And if they are ashamed of everything that they have done, make known to them the plan of the house, its layout, its exits, its entrances, all its plans, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its entire plan and all its statutes and execute them.

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Ezekiel 43:12

"This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

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Ezekiel 43:13

"And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a hand width): the base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge all around one span; and this shall be the height of the base of the altar.

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Ezekiel 43:14

"And 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 larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the width one cubit.

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Ezekiel 43:15

"The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upward four horns.

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Ezekiel 43:16

"Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

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Ezekiel 43:17

"And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit, and its base shall be a cubit all around; and its steps shall face east."

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Ezekiel 43:18

And He said to me, "Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.

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Ezekiel 43:19

'You shall give to the Levitical priests who are from the descendants of Zadok, who come near to Me to serve Me,' declares the Lord GOD, 'a bull as a sin offering.

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Ezekiel 43:20

'And you shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around; so you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

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Ezekiel 43:21

'You shall also take the bull as the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.

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Ezekiel 43:22

'And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar from sin as they cleansed it with the bull.

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Ezekiel 43:23

'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.

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Ezekiel 43:24

'You shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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Ezekiel 43:25

'For seven days you shall prepare a goat as a sin offering daily; also a bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, shall be prepared.

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Ezekiel 43:26

'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

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Ezekiel 43:27

'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you,' declares the Lord GOD."

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Ezekiel 44:1

Then He brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east; and it was shut.

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Ezekiel 44:2

And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.

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Ezekiel 44:3

"As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate and shall go out by the same way."

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Ezekiel 44:4

Then He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD, and I fell on my face.

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Ezekiel 44:5

And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, pay attention, see with your eyes and hear with your ears everything that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of the LORD and all its laws; and pay attention to the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary.

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Ezekiel 44:6

"You shall say to the rebellious ones, to the house of Israel, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Enough of all your abominations, house of Israel,

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Ezekiel 44:7

when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, My house, when you offered My food, the fat, and the blood and they broke My covenant—this in addition to all your abominations.

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Ezekiel 44:8

"And you have not taken responsibility for My holy things yourselves, but you have appointed foreigners to take responsibility for My sanctuary."

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Ezekiel 44:9

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.

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Ezekiel 44:10

"But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me following their idols, shall suffer the punishment for their wrongdoing.

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Ezekiel 44:11

"Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

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Ezekiel 44:12

"Since they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of wrongdoing to the house of Israel, for that reason I have sworn against them," declares the Lord GOD, "that they shall suffer the punishment for their wrongdoing.

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Ezekiel 44:13

"And they shall not approach Me to serve as priests for Me, nor approach any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.

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Ezekiel 44:14

"Nevertheless I will appoint them to take responsibility for the house, of all its service and of everything that shall be done in it.

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Ezekiel 44:15

"But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who took responsibility for My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to serve Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood," declares the Lord GOD.

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Ezekiel 44:16

"They shall enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My table to serve Me and assume the responsibility I give them.

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Ezekiel 44:17

"And it shall be that when they enter at the gates of the inner courtyard, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and wool shall not be worn by them while they are ministering in the gates of the inner courtyard or in the house.

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Ezekiel 44:18

"Linen turbans shall be on their heads and linen undergarments shall be around their waists; they shall not put on anything that makes them sweat.

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Ezekiel 44:19

"And when they go out into the outer courtyard, into the outer courtyard to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers; then they shall put on other garments, so that they will not transfer holiness to the people with their garments.

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Ezekiel 44:20

"Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

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Ezekiel 44:21

"Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard.

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Ezekiel 44:22

"And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but shall take virgins from the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

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Ezekiel 44:23

"Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and teach them to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

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Ezekiel 44:24

"In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts, and sanctify My Sabbaths.

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Ezekiel 44:25

"They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

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Ezekiel 44:26

"And after he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him.

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Ezekiel 44:27

"On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," declares the Lord GOD.

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Ezekiel 44:28

"And it shall be regarding an inheritance for them, that I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no property in Israel—I am their property.

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Ezekiel 44:29

"They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and everything banned from secular use in Israel shall be theirs.

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Ezekiel 44:30

"And the first of all the first fruits of every kind and every contribution of every kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough, to make a blessing rest on your house.

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Ezekiel 44:31

"The priests shall not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces by animals.

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Ezekiel 45:1

"Now when you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be a length of twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width shall be twenty thousand. It shall be holy within its entire surrounding boundary.

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Ezekiel 45:2

"Out of this there shall be for the sanctuary a square encompassing five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its open space round about.

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Ezekiel 45:3

"From this area you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

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Ezekiel 45:4

"It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to serve the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

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Ezekiel 45:5

"An area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession cities in which to live.

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Ezekiel 45:6

"And you shall give the city possession of an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long, alongside the allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the entire house of Israel.

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Ezekiel 45:7

"And the prince shall have land on either side of the holy allotment and the property of the city, adjacent to the holy allotment and the property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

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Ezekiel 45:8

"This shall be his land as a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes."

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Ezekiel 45:9

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your evictions of My people," declares the Lord GOD.

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Ezekiel 45:10

"You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ephah, and an accurate bath.

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Ezekiel 45:11

"The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.

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Ezekiel 45:12

"And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

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Ezekiel 45:13

"This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley;

Ezekiel 45:14

and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);

Ezekiel 45:15

and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them," declares the Lord GOD.

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Ezekiel 45:16

"All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

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Ezekiel 45:17

"And it shall be the prince's part to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the drink offerings, at the feasts, on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel."

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Ezekiel 45:18

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary from sin.

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Ezekiel 45:19

"And the priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner courtyard.

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Ezekiel 45:20

"And you shall do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who does wrong inadvertently or is naive; so you shall make atonement for the house.

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Ezekiel 45:21

"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

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Ezekiel 45:22

"On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull as a sin offering.

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Ezekiel 45:23

"And during the seven days of the feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering.

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Ezekiel 45:24

"And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

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Ezekiel 45:25

"In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like these, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil."

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Ezekiel 46:1

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "The gate of the inner courtyard facing east shall be shut for the six working days; but it shall be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the new moon.

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Ezekiel 46:2

"The prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

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Ezekiel 46:3

"The people of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

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Ezekiel 46:4

"The burnt offering which the prince shall offer to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

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Ezekiel 46:5

and the grain offering shall be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs as much as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

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Ezekiel 46:6

"On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

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Ezekiel 46:7

"And he shall provide a grain offering, an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

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Ezekiel 46:8

"When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate, and go out by the same way.

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Ezekiel 46:9

"But when the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, one who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And one who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but shall go straight out.

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Ezekiel 46:10

"And when they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

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Ezekiel 46:11

"At the festivals and the appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

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Ezekiel 46:12

"And when the prince provides a voluntary offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

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Ezekiel 46:13

"And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.

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Ezekiel 46:14

"You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by a permanent ordinance.

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Ezekiel 46:15

"So they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a continual burnt offering."

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Ezekiel 46:16

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "If the prince gives a gift from his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

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Ezekiel 46:17

"But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of release; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons'; it shall belong to them.

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Ezekiel 46:18

"And the prince shall not take from the people's inheritance, depriving them of their property; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own property, so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his property."'"

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Ezekiel 46:19

Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, a place was there at the extreme rear toward the west.

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Ezekiel 46:20

And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer courtyard and transfer holiness to the people."

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Ezekiel 46:21

Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me across to the four corners of the courtyard; and behold, in every corner of the courtyard there was a small courtyard.

Ezekiel 46:22

In the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same size.

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Ezekiel 46:23

And there was a row of masonry all around in them, around the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all around.

Ezekiel 46:24

Then he said to me, "These are the cooking places where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifices of the people."

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Ezekiel 47:1

Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

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Ezekiel 47:2

And he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate, by the way facing east. And behold, water was spurting out from the south side.

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Ezekiel 47:3

When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he led me through the water, water reaching the ankles.

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Ezekiel 47:4

Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the hips.

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Ezekiel 47:5

Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not wade across, because the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be crossed by wading.

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Ezekiel 47:6

And he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he brought me back to the bank of the river.

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Ezekiel 47:7

Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river there were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

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Ezekiel 47:8

Then he said to me, "These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the sea become fresh.

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Ezekiel 47:9

"And it will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.

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Ezekiel 47:10

"And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

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Ezekiel 47:11

"But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

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Ezekiel 47:12

"And by the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

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Ezekiel 47:13

This is what the Lord GOD says: "This shall be the boundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.

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Ezekiel 47:14

"And you shall divide it for an inheritance, each one equally with the other; for I swore to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall fall to you as an inheritance.

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Ezekiel 47:15

"And this shall be the boundary of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

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Ezekiel 47:16

Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

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Ezekiel 47:17

"The boundary shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

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Ezekiel 47:18

"The east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

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Ezekiel 47:19

"The south side toward the south shall extend from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt and to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.

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Ezekiel 47:20

"And the west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

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Ezekiel 47:21

"So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47:22

"You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the strangers who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

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Ezekiel 47:23

"And in the tribe with which the stranger resides, there you shall give him his inheritance," declares the Lord GOD.

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