Ezekiel:43-44
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Afterward he brought me to the gate ,
even the gate that looketh toward the east :
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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 .
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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 .
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And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east .
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So the spirit took me up ,
and brought me into the inner court ;
and ,
behold ,
the glory of the LORD filled the house .
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And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house ;
and the man stood by me .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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So the altar shall be four cubits ;
and from the altar and upward shall be four horns .
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And the altar shall be twelve cubits long ,
twelve broad ,
square in the four squares thereof .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it ;
and they shall consecrate themselves .
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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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Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east ;
and it was shut .
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Then said the LORD unto me ;
This gate shall be shut ,
it shall not be opened ,
and no man shall enter in by it ;
because the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
hath entered in by it ,
therefore it shall be shut .
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It is for the prince ;
the prince ,
he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD ;
he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate ,
and shall go out by the way of the same .
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Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house :
and I looked ,
and ,
behold ,
the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD :
and I fell upon my face .
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And the LORD said unto me ,
Son of man ,
mark well ,
and behold with thine eyes ,
and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD ,
and all the laws thereof ;
and mark well the entering in of the house ,
with every going forth of the sanctuary .
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And thou shalt say to the rebellious ,
even to the house of Israel ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
O ye house of Israel ,
let it suffice you of all your abominations ,
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In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers ,
uncircumcised in heart ,
and uncircumcised in flesh ,
to be in my sanctuary ,
to pollute it ,
even my house ,
when ye offer my bread ,
the fat and the blood ,
and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations .
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And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things :
but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
No stranger ,
uncircumcised in heart ,
nor uncircumcised in flesh ,
shall enter into my sanctuary ,
of any stranger that is among the children of Israel .
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And the Levites that are gone away far from me ,
when Israel went astray ,
which went astray away from me after their idols ;
they shall even bear their iniquity .
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Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary ,
having charge at the gates of the house ,
and ministering to the house :
they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people ,
and they shall stand before them to minister unto them .
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Because they ministered unto them before their idols ,
and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity ;
therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them ,
saith the Lord GOD ,
and they shall bear their iniquity .
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And they shall not come near unto me ,
to do the office of a priest unto me ,
nor to come near to any of my holy things ,
in the most holy place :
but they shall bear their shame ,
and their abominations which they have committed .
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But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house ,
for all the service thereof ,
and for all that shall be done therein .
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But the priests the Levites ,
the sons of Zadok ,
that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me ,
they shall come near to me to minister unto me ,
and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood ,
saith the Lord GOD :
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They shall enter into my sanctuary ,
and they shall come near to my table ,
to minister unto me ,
and they shall keep my charge .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court ,
they shall be clothed with linen garments ;
and no wool shall come upon them ,
whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court ,
and within .
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They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads ,
and shall have linen breeches upon their loins ;
they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat .
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And when they go forth into the utter court ,
even into the utter court to the people ,
they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered ,
and lay them in the holy chambers ,
and they shall put on other garments ;
and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments .
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Neither shall they shave their heads ,
nor suffer their locks to grow long ;
they shall only poll their heads .
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Neither shall any priest drink wine ,
when they enter into the inner court .
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Neither shall they take for their wives a widow ,
nor her that is put away :
but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel ,
or a widow that had a priest before .
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And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane ,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean .
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And in controversy they shall stand in judgment ;
and they shall judge it according to my judgments :
and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies ;
and they shall hallow my sabbaths .
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And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves :
but for father ,
or for mother ,
or for son ,
or for daughter ,
for brother ,
or for sister that hath had no husband ,
they may defile themselves .
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And after he is cleansed ,
they shall reckon unto him seven days .
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And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary ,
unto the inner court ,
to minister in the sanctuary ,
he shall offer his sin offering ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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And it shall be unto them for an inheritance :
I am their inheritance :
and ye shall give them no possession in Israel :
I am their possession .
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They shall eat the meat offering ,
and the sin offering ,
and the trespass offering ;
and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs .
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And the first of all the firstfruits of all things ,
and every oblation of all ,
of every sort of your oblations ,
shall be the priest '
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ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough ,
that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house .
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The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself ,
or torn ,
whether it be fowl or beast .
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Moreover ,
when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance ,
ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD ,
an holy portion of the land :
the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds ,
and the breadth shall be ten thousand .
This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about .