Ezekiel 43:2-27 ▼

2 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east, and His voice was like the voice of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.

3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision that I had seen, like the vision that I had seen when He came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw at the River Kebar. And I fell on my face.

4 And the glory of YHWH came into the temple by the way of the gate that has its face toward the east.

5 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and behold, the glory of YHWH filled the temple.

6 And I heard one speaking to me from the temple, and the man was standing beside me.

7 And He said to me: “Son of man, the place of My throne, and the place for the soles of My feet, in which I will dwell there in the midst of the sons of Israel forever; and the house of Israel will defile no more My holy name, they and their kings with their prostitution, and the corpses of their kings at their deaths,

8 by their giving their threshold next to My threshold, and their doorpost beside My doorpost, and the wall between Me and between them. And they have defiled My holy name by the abominations that they did, and I finished them off in My anger.

9 Now let them remove their prostitution, and the corpses of their kings, away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

10 You, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, so 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, the design of the temple, and its arrangement, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its design, and all its statutes, and all its forms, and all its laws, make known to them. And write it before their eyes, so that they may keep all its design and all its ordinances, and do them.

12 This is the law of the temple: On the top of the mountain, all its border round about, is the holy of holies. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

13 And these are the measurements of the altar in cubits (a cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): The base shall be one cubit high and one cubit wide, and its rim to its edge all around a span of one; and this is the height of the altar.

14 And from the base on the ground up to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, and the width a cubit.

15 And the altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and from the hearth and upward are four horns.

16 And the altar hearth shall be twelve long by twelve wide, being square at the four of its corners.

17 And the ledge shall be fourteen long, and fourteen wide, on the four of its sides, with a rim around it half a cubit, and the base for it a cubit all around; and its steps shall face toward the east.”

18 And he said to me: “Son of man, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘These are the ordinances for the altar on the day of its being made to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.

19 And you shall give to the priests, the Levites, those who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to Me, a declaration of the Lord YHWH, to minister to Me, a bull, a son of the herd, as a sin offering.

20 And you shall take from its blood and put it upon the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; and you will cleanse it from sin and make atonement for it.

21 And you shall take the bull of the sin offering and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside of the sanctuary.

22 And on the second day, you shall offer a kid of the goats, unblemished, for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse from sin the altar, as they cleansed it from sin with the bull.

23 When you have finished cleansing from sin, you shall bring near a bull, a son of the herd, unblemished, and a ram from the flock, unblemished.

24 And you shall present them before YHWH, and the priests shall throw on them salt, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to YHWH.

25 Seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering, day by day, and a bull, a son of the herd and a ram from the flock, unblemished, they shall prepare.

26 Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and they shall fill its hands.

27 And are completed these days, and it shall come to pass on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall make upon the altar your⁺ burnt offerings and your⁺ peace offerings, and will I accept you⁺, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.’”