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¹ Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.² And, look, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound 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 on my face.⁴ And the glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.⁵ And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, look, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.⁶ And I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

⁷ And he said to me, Son of man, as for the place of my throne, and as for the place of the soles of my feet, [they will be] where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;⁸ in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by the disgusting behaviors that they have done: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.⁹ Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.¹⁰ You, son of man, show 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 are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances 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: on the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Look, this is the law of the house.

¹³ And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): And a hole of one cubit and the width a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.¹⁴ And from the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit.¹⁵ And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.¹⁶ And the altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.¹⁷ And the ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof shall look toward the east.¹⁸ And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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 You shall give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin-offering.²⁰ And you shall take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.²¹ You shall also take the bull of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.²² And on the second day you shall offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.²³ When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.²⁴ And you shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering to Yahweh.²⁵ Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.²⁶ Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so they shall consecrate it.²⁷ And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings on the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.