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In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity ,
at the beginning of the year ,
on the tenth day of the month ,
in the fourteenth year after the city was captured ,
on the very same day the hand of the LORD was upon me ;
and He took me there .
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In the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain ;
on it toward the south was something like the structure of a city .
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He took me there ,
and behold ,
there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze .
He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand ,
and he stood in the gateway .
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And the man said to me , "
Son of man ,
look with your eyes and hear with your ears ,
and fix your mind on everything I show you ;
for you were brought here so that I might show them to you .
Declare to the house of Israel everything you see ."
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Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple .
In the man '
s hand was a measuring rod six cubits long ,
each being a cubit and a handbreadth ;
and he measured the width of the wall structure ,
one rod ;
and the height ,
one rod .
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Then he went to the gateway which faced east ;
and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gateway ,
which was one rod wide ,
and the other threshold was one rod wide .
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Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide ;
between the gate chambers was a space of five cubits ;
and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one rod .
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He also measured the vestibule of the inside gate ,
one rod .
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Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway ,
eight cubits ;
and the gateposts ,
two cubits .
The vestibule of the gate was on the inside .
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In the eastern gateway were three gate chambers on one side and three on the other ;
the three were all the same size ;
also the gateposts were of the same size on this side and that side .
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He measured the width of the entrance to the gateway ,
ten cubits ;
and the length of the gate ,
thirteen cubits .
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There was a space in front of the gate chambers ,
one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side ;
the gate chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side .
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Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the other ;
the width was twenty-five cubits ,
as door faces door .
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He measured the gateposts ,
sixty cubits high ,
and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost .
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From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits .
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There were beveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around ,
and likewise in the vestibules .
There were windows all around on the inside .
And on each gatepost were palm trees .
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Then he brought me into the outer court ;
and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court ;
thirty chambers faced the pavement .
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The pavement was by the side of the gateways ,
corresponding to the length of the gateways ;
this was the lower pavement .
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Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gateway to the front of the inner court exterior ,
one hundred cubits toward the east and the north .
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On the outer court was also a gateway facing north ,
and he measured its length and its width .
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Its gate chambers ,
three on this side and three on that side ,
its gateposts and its archways ,
had the same measurements as the first gate ;
its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits .
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Its windows and those of its archways ,
and also its palm trees ,
had the same measurements as the gateway facing east ;
it was ascended by seven steps ,
and its archway was in front of it .
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A gate of the inner court was opposite the northern gateway ,
just as the eastern gateway ;
and he measured from gateway to gateway ,
one hundred cubits .
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After that he brought me toward the south ,
and there a gateway was facing south ;
and he measured its gateposts and archways according to these same measurements .
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There were windows in it and in its archways all around like those windows ;
its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits .
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Seven steps led up to it ,
and its archway was in front of them ;
and it had palm trees on its gateposts ,
one on this side and one on that side .
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There was also a gateway on the inner court ,
facing south ;
and he measured from gateway to gateway toward the south ,
one hundred cubits .
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Then he brought me to the inner court through the southern gateway ;
he measured the southern gateway according to these same measurements .
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Also its gate chambers ,
its gateposts ,
and its archways were according to these same measurements ;
there were windows in it and in its archways all around ;
it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide .
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There were archways all around ,
twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide .
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Its archways faced the outer court ,
palm trees were on its gateposts ,
and going up to it were eight steps .
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And he brought me into the inner court facing east ;
he measured the gateway according to these same measurements .
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Also its gate chambers ,
its gateposts ,
and its archways were according to these same measurements ;
and there were windows in it and in its archways all around ;
it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide .
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Its archways faced the outer court ,
and palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side ;
and going up to it were eight steps .
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Then he brought me to the north gateway and measured it according to these same measurements --
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also its gate chambers ,
its gateposts ,
and its archways .
It had windows all around ;
its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits .
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Its gateposts faced the outer court ,
palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side ,
and going up to it were eight steps .
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There was a chamber and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway ,
where they washed the burnt offering .
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In the vestibule of the gateway were two tables on this side and two tables on that side ,
on which to slay the burnt offering ,
the sin offering ,
and the trespass offering .
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At the outer side of the vestibule ,
as one goes up to the entrance of the northern gateway ,
were two tables ;
and on the other side of the vestibule of the gateway were two tables .
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Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side ,
by the side of the gateway ,
eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices .
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There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering ,
one cubit and a half long ,
one cubit and a half wide ,
and one cubit high ;
on these they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice .
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Inside were hooks ,
a handbreadth wide ,
fastened all around ;
and the flesh of the sacrifices was on the tables .
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Outside the inner gate were the chambers for the singers in the inner court ,
one facing south at the side of the northern gateway ,
and the other facing north at the side of the southern gateway .
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Then he said to me , "
This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple .
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The chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar ;
these are the sons of Zadok ,
from the sons of Levi ,
who come near the LORD to minister to Him ."
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And he measured the court ,
one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide ,
foursquare .
The altar was in front of the temple .
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Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the doorposts of the vestibule ,
five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side ;
and the width of the gateway was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side .
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The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits ,
and the width eleven cubits ;
and by the steps which led up to it there were pillars by the doorposts ,
one on this side and another on that side .
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Then he brought me into the sanctuary and measured the doorposts ,
six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side--the width of the tabernacle .
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The width of the entryway was ten cubits ,
and the side walls of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on the other side ;
and he measured its length ,
forty cubits ,
and its width ,
twenty cubits .
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Also he went inside and measured the doorposts ,
two cubits ;
and the entrance ,
six cubits high ;
and the width of the entrance ,
seven cubits .
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He measured the length ,
twenty cubits ;
and the width ,
twenty cubits ,
beyond the sanctuary ;
and he said to me , "
This is the Most Holy Place ."
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Next ,
he measured the wall of the temple ,
six cubits .
The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side .
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The side chambers were in three stories ,
one above the other ,
thirty chambers in each story ;
they rested on ledges which were for the side chambers all around ,
that they might be supported ,
but not fastened to the wall of the temple .
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As one went up from story to story ,
the side chambers became wider all around ,
because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps ;
therefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one .
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I also saw an elevation all around the temple ;
it was the foundation of the side chambers ,
a full rod ,
that is ,
six cubits high .
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The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits ,
and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the temple .
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And between it and the wall chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side .
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The doors of the side chambers opened on the terrace ,
one door toward the north and another toward the south ;
and the width of the terrace was five cubits all around .
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The building that faced the separating courtyard at its western end was seventy cubits wide ;
the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around ,
and its length ninety cubits .
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So he measured the temple ,
one hundred cubits long ;
and the separating courtyard with the building and its walls was one hundred cubits long ;
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also the width of the eastern face of the temple ,
including the separating courtyard ,
was one hundred cubits .
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He measured the length of the building behind it ,
facing the separating courtyard ,
with its galleries on the one side and on the other side ,
one hundred cubits ,
as well as the inner temple and the porches of the court ,
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their doorposts and the beveled window frames .
And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with wood from the ground to the windows--the windows were covered --
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from the space above the door ,
even to the inner room ,
as well as outside ,
and on every wall all around ,
inside and outside ,
by measure .
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And it was made with cherubim and palm trees ,
a palm tree between cherub and cherub .
Each cherub had two faces ,
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so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side ,
and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the other side ;
thus it was made throughout the temple all around .
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From the floor to the space above the door ,
and on the wall of the sanctuary ,
cherubim and palm trees were carved .
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The doorposts of the temple were square ,
as was the front of the sanctuary ;
their appearance was similar .
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The altar was of wood ,
three cubits high ,
and its length two cubits .
Its corners ,
its length ,
and its sides were of wood ;
and he said to me , "
This is the table that is before the LORD ."
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The temple and the sanctuary had two doors .
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The doors had two panels apiece ,
two folding panels :
two panels for one door and two panels for the other door .
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Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the temple just as they were carved on the walls .
A wooden canopy was on the front of the vestibule outside .
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There were beveled window frames and palm trees on one side and on the other ,
on the sides of the vestibule--also on the side chambers of the temple and on the canopies .
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Then he brought me out into the outer court ,
by the way toward the north ;
and he brought me into the chamber which was opposite the separating courtyard ,
and which was opposite the building toward the north .
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Facing the length ,
which was one hundred cubits (
the width was fifty cubits ),
was the north door .
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Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits ,
and opposite the pavement of the outer court ,
was gallery against gallery in three stories .
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In front of the chambers ,
toward the inside ,
was a walk ten cubits wide ,
at a distance of one cubit ;
and their doors faced north .
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Now the upper chambers were shorter ,
because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building .
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For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts ;
therefore the upper level was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up .
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And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chambers ,
at the front of the chambers ,
toward the outer court ;
its length was fifty cubits .
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The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits ,
whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits .
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At the lower chambers was the entrance on the east side ,
as one goes into them from the outer court .
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Also there were chambers in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east ,
opposite the separating courtyard and opposite the building .
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There was a walk in front of them also ,
and their appearance was like the chambers which were toward the north ;
they were as long and as wide as the others ,
and all their exits and entrances were according to plan .
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And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south ,
as one enters them ,
there was a door in front of the walk ,
the way directly in front of the wall toward the east .
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Then he said to me , "
The north chambers and the south chambers ,
which are opposite the separating courtyard ,
are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings .
There they shall lay the most holy offerings--the grain offering ,
the sin offering ,
and the trespass offering--for the place is holy .
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When the priests enter them ,
they shall not go out of the holy chamber into the outer court ;
but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister ,
for they are holy .
They shall put on other garments ;
then they may approach that which is for the people ."
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Now when he had finished measuring the inner temple ,
he brought me out through the gateway that faces toward the east ,
and measured it all around .
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He measured the east side with the measuring rod ,
five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around .
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He measured the north side ,
five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around .
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He measured the south side ,
five hundred rods by the measuring rod .
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He came around to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod .
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He measured it on the four sides ;
it had a wall all around ,
five hundred cubits long and five hundred wide ,
to separate the holy areas from the common .
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Afterward he brought me to the gate ,
the gate that faces toward the east .
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And behold ,
the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east .
His voice was like the sound of many waters ;
and the earth shone with His glory .
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It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw--like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city .
The visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar ;
and I fell on my face .
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And the glory of the LORD came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the east .
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The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court ;
and behold ,
the glory of the LORD filled the temple .
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Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple ,
while a man stood beside me .
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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 in the midst of the children of Israel forever .
No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name ,
they nor their kings ,
by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places .
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When they set their threshold by My threshold ,
and their doorpost by My doorpost ,
with a wall between them and Me ,
they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed ;
therefore I have consumed them in My anger .
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Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me ,
and I will dwell in their midst forever .
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Son of man ,
describe the temple 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 are ashamed of all that they have done ,
make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement ,
its exits and its entrances ,
its entire design and all its ordinances ,
all its forms and all its laws .
Write it down in their sight ,
so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances ,
and perform them .
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This is the law of the temple :
The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy .
Behold ,
this is the law of the temple .
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These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (
the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth ):
the base one cubit high and one cubit wide ,
with a rim all around its edge of one span .
This is the height of the altar :
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from the base on the ground to the lower ledge ,
two cubits ;
the width of the ledge ,
one cubit ;
from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge ,
four cubits ;
and the width of the ledge ,
one cubit .
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The altar hearth is four cubits high ,
with four horns extending upward from the hearth .
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The altar hearth is twelve cubits long ,
twelve wide ,
square at its four corners ;
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the ledge ,
fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides ,
with a rim of half a cubit around it ;
its base ,
one cubit all around ;
and its steps face toward the east ."
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And He said to me , "
Son of man ,
thus says the Lord GOD : "
These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made ,
for sacrificing burnt offerings on it ,
and for sprinkling blood on it .
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You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests ,
the Levites ,
who are of the seed of Zadok ,
who approach Me to minister to Me ,'
says the Lord GOD .
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You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar ,
on the four corners of the ledge ,
and on the rim around it ;
thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it .
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Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering ,
and burn it in the appointed place of the temple ,
outside the sanctuary .
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On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering ;
and they shall cleanse the altar ,
as they cleansed it with the bull .
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When you have finished cleansing it ,
you shall offer a young bull without blemish ,
and a ram from the flock without blemish .
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When you offer them before the LORD ,
the priests shall throw salt on them ,
and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD .
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Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering ;
they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock ,
both without blemish .
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Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it ,
and so consecrate it .
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When these days are over it shall be ,
on the eighth day and thereafter ,
that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar ;
and I will accept you ,'
says the Lord GOD ."
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Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east ,
but it was shut .
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And the LORD said to me , "
This gate shall be shut ;
it shall not be opened ,
and no man shall enter by it ,
because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it ;
therefore it shall be shut .
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As for the prince ,
because he is the prince ,
he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD ;
he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway ,
and go out the same way ."
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Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple ;
so 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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And the LORD said to me , "
Son of man ,
mark well ,
see with your eyes and hear with your ears ,
all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws .
Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary .
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Now say to the rebellious ,
to the house of Israel , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
O house of Israel ,
let Us have no more of all your abominations .
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When you brought in foreigners ,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh ,
to be in My sanctuary to defile it--My house--and when you offered My food ,
the fat and the blood ,
then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations .
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And you have not kept charge of My holy things ,
but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
No foreigner ,
uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh ,
shall enter My sanctuary ,
including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel .
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And the Levites who went far from Me ,
when Israel went astray ,
who strayed away from Me after their idols ,
they shall bear their iniquity .
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Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary ,
as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house ;
they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people ,
and they shall stand before them to minister to them .
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Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity ,
therefore I have raised My hand in an oath against them ,"
says the Lord GOD , "
that they shall bear their iniquity .
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And they shall not come near Me to minister to Me as priest ,
nor come near any of My holy things ,
nor into the Most Holy Place ;
but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed .
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Nevertheless I will make them keep charge of the temple ,
for all its work ,
and for all that has to be done in it .
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But the priests ,
the Levites ,
the sons of Zadok ,
who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me ,
they shall come near Me to minister to Me ;
and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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They shall enter My sanctuary ,
and they shall come near My table to minister to Me ,
and they shall keep My charge .
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And it shall be ,
whenever they enter the gates of the inner court ,
that they shall put on linen garments ;
no wool shall come upon them while they minister within the gates of the inner court or within the house .
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They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies ;
they shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat .
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When they go out to the outer court ,
to the outer court to the people ,
they shall take off their garments in which they have ministered ,
leave them in the holy chambers ,
and put on other garments ;
and in their holy garments they shall not sanctify the people .
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They shall neither shave their heads ,
nor let their hair grow long ,
but they shall keep their hair well trimmed .
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No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court .
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They shall not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman ,
but take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel ,
or widows of priests .
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And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the unholy ,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean .
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In controversy they shall stand as judges ,
and judge it according to My judgments .
They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings ,
and they shall hallow My Sabbaths .
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They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead person .
Only for father or mother ,
for son or daughter ,
for brother or unmarried sister may they defile themselves .
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After he is cleansed ,
they shall count seven days for him .
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And on the day that he goes to the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary ,
he must offer his sin offering in the inner court ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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It shall be ,
in regard to their inheritance ,
that I am their inheritance .
You shall give them no possession in Israel ,
for I am their possession .
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They shall eat the grain offering ,
the sin offering ,
and the trespass offering ;
every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs .
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The best of all firstfruits of any kind ,
and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices ,
shall be the priest '
s ;
also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal ,
to cause a blessing to rest on your house .
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The priests shall not eat anything ,
bird or beast ,
that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts .
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Moreover ,
when you divide the land by lot into inheritance ,
you shall set apart a district for the LORD ,
a holy section of the land ;
its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits ,
and the width ten thousand .
It shall be holy throughout its territory all around .
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Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary ,
five hundred by five hundred rods ,
with fifty cubits around it for an open space .
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So this is the district you shall measure :
twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide ;
in it shall be the sanctuary ,
the Most Holy Place .
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It shall be a holy section of the land ,
belonging to the priests ,
the ministers of the sanctuary ,
who come near to minister to the LORD ;
it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary .
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An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites ,
the ministers of the temple ;
they shall have twenty chambers as a possession .
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You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long ,
adjacent to the district of the holy section ;
it shall belong to the whole house of Israel .
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The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city '
s property ;
and bordering on the holy district and the city '
s property ,
extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side ,
the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions ,
from the west border to the east border .
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The land shall be his possession in Israel ;
and My princes shall no more 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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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Enough ,
O princes of Israel !
Remove violence and plundering ,
execute justice and righteousness ,
and stop dispossessing My people ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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You shall have honest scales ,
an honest ephah ,
and an honest bath .
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The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure ,
so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer ,
and the ephah one-tenth of a homer ;
their measure shall be according to the homer .
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The shekel shall be twenty gerahs ;
twenty shekels ,
twenty-five shekels ,
and fifteen shekels shall be your mina .
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This is the offering which you shall offer :
you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat ,
and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley .
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The ordinance concerning oil ,
the bath of oil ,
is one-tenth of a bath from a kor .
A kor is a homer or ten baths ,
for ten baths are a homer .
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And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred ,
from the rich pastures of Israel .
These shall be for grain offerings ,
burnt offerings ,
and peace offerings ,
to make atonement for them ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel .
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Then it shall be the prince '
s part to give burnt offerings ,
grain offerings ,
and drink offerings ,
at the feasts ,
the New Moons ,
the Sabbaths ,
and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel .
He shall prepare 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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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
In the first month ,
on the first day of the month ,
you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary .
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The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple ,
on the four corners of the ledge of the altar ,
and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court .
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And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance .
Thus you shall make atonement for the temple .
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In the first month ,
on the fourteenth day of the month ,
you shall observe the Passover ,
a feast of seven days ;
unleavened bread shall be eaten .
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And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering .
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On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD ,
seven bulls and seven rams without blemish ,
daily for seven days ,
and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering .
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And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram ,
together with a hin of oil for each ephah .
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In the seventh month ,
on the fifteenth day of the month ,
at the feast ,
he shall do likewise for seven days ,
according to the sin offering ,
the burnt offering ,
the grain offering ,
and the oil ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days ;
but on the Sabbath it shall be opened ,
and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened .
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The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside ,
and stand by the gatepost .
The priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings .
He shall worship at the threshold of the gate .
Then he shall go out ,
but the gate shall not be shut until evening .
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Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the LORD on the Sabbaths and the New Moons .
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The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish ,
and a ram without blemish ;
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and the grain offering shall be one ephah for a ram ,
and the grain offering for the lambs ,
as much as he wants to give ,
as well as a hin of oil with every ephah .
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On the day of the New Moon it shall be a young bull without blemish ,
six lambs ,
and a ram ;
they shall be without blemish .
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He shall prepare a grain offering of an ephah for a bull ,
an ephah for a ram ,
as much as he wants to give for the lambs ,
and a hin of oil with every ephah .
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When the prince enters ,
he shall go in by way of the vestibule of the gateway ,
and go out the same way .
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But when the people of the land come before the LORD on the appointed feast days ,
whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate ;
and whoever enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate .
He shall not return by way of the gate through which he came ,
but shall go out through the opposite gate .
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The prince shall then be in their midst .
When they go in ,
he shall go in ;
and when they go out ,
he shall go out .
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At the festivals and the appointed feast days the grain offering shall be an ephah for a bull ,
an ephah for a ram ,
as much as he wants to give for the lambs ,
and a hin of oil with every ephah .
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Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the LORD ,
the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him ;
and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day .
Then he shall go out ,
and after he goes out the gate shall be shut .
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You shall daily make a burnt offering to the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish ;
you shall prepare it every morning .
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And you shall prepare a grain offering with it every morning ,
a sixth of an ephah ,
and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour .
This grain offering is a perpetual ordinance ,
to be made regularly to the LORD .
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Thus they shall prepare the lamb ,
the grain offering ,
and the oil ,
as a regular burnt offering every morning ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
If the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons ,
it shall belong to his sons ;
it is their possession by inheritance .
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But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants ,
it shall be his until the year of liberty ,
after which it shall return to the prince .
But his inheritance shall belong to his sons ;
it shall become theirs .
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Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people '
s inheritance by evicting them from their property ;
he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property ,
so that none of My people may be scattered from his property .""'
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Now he brought me through the entrance ,
which was at the side of the gate ,
into the holy chambers of the priests which face toward the north ;
and there a place was situated at their extreme western end .
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And he said to me , "
This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering ,
and where they shall bake the grain offering ,
so that they do not bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people ."
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Then he brought me out into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court ;
and in fact ,
in every corner of the court there was another court .
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In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts ,
forty cubits long and thirty wide ;
all four corners were the same size .
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There was a row of building stones all around in them ,
all around the four of them ;
and cooking hearths were made under the rows of stones all around .
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And he said to me , "
These are the kitchens where the ministers of the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people ."
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Then he brought me back to the door of the temple ;
and there was water ,
flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east ,
for the front of the temple faced east ;
the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple ,
south of the altar .
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He brought me out by way of the north gate ,
and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east ;
and there was water ,
running out on the right side .
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And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand ,
he measured one thousand cubits ,
and he brought me through the waters ;
the water came up to my ankles .
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Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters ;
the water came up to my knees .
Again he measured one thousand and brought me through ;
the water came up to my waist .
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Again he measured one thousand ,
and it was a river that I could not cross ;
for the water was too deep ,
water in which one must swim ,
a river that could not be crossed .
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He said to me , "
Son of man ,
have you seen this ?"
Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river .
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When I returned ,
there ,
along the bank of the river ,
were very many trees on one side and the other .
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Then he said to me : "
This water flows toward the eastern region ,
goes down into the valley ,
and enters the sea .
When it reaches the sea ,
its waters are healed .
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And it shall be that every living thing that moves ,
wherever the rivers go ,
will live .
There will be a very great multitude of fish ,
because these waters go there ;
for they will be healed ,
and everything will live wherever the river goes .
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It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim ;
they will be places for spreading their nets .
Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea ,
exceedingly many .
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But its swamps and marshes will not be healed ;
they will be given over to salt .
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Along the bank of the river ,
on this side and that ,
will grow all kinds of trees used 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 .
Their fruit will be for food ,
and their leaves for medicine ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
These are the borders by which you shall divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel .
Joseph shall have two portions .
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You shall inherit it equally with one another ;
for I raised My hand in an oath to give it to your fathers ,
and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance .
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This shall be the border of the land on the north :
from the Great Sea ,
by the road to Hethlon ,
as one goes to Zedad ,
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Hamath ,
Berothah ,
Sibraim (
which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath ),
to Hazar Hatticon (
which is on the border of Hauran ).
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Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan ,
the border of Damascus ;
and as for the north ,
northward ,
it is the border of Hamath .
This is the north side .
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On the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus ,
and between Gilead and the land of Israel ,
along the Jordan ,
and along the eastern side of the sea .
This is the east side .
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The south side ,
toward the South ,
shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh ,
along the brook to the Great Sea .
This is the south side ,
toward the South .
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The west side shall be the Great Sea ,
from the southern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath .
This is the west side .
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Thus you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel .
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It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves ,
and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you .
They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel ;
they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel .
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And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells ,
there you shall give him his inheritance ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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Now these are the names of the tribes :
From the northern border along the road to Hethlon at the entrance of Hamath ,
to Hazar Enan ,
the border of Damascus northward ,
in the direction of Hamath ,
there shall be one section for Dan from its east to its west side ;
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by the border of Dan ,
from the east side to the west ,
one section for Asher ;
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by the border of Asher ,
from the east side to the west ,
one section for Naphtali ;
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by the border of Naphtali ,
from the east side to the west ,
one section for Manasseh ;
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by the border of Manasseh ,
from the east side to the west ,
one section for Ephraim ;
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by the border of Ephraim ,
from the east side to the west ,
one section for Reuben ;
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by the border of Reuben ,
from the east side to the west ,
one section for Judah ;
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by the border of Judah ,
from the east side to the west ,
shall be the district which you shall set apart ,
twenty-five thousand cubits in width ,
and in length the same as one of the other portions ,
from the east side to the west ,
with the sanctuary in the center .
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The district that you shall set apart for the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width .
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To these--to the priests--the holy district shall belong :
on the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length ,
on the west ten thousand in width ,
on the east ten thousand in width ,
and on the south twenty-five thousand in length .
The sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the center .
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It shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok ,
who are sanctified ,
who have kept My charge ,
who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray ,
as the Levites went astray .
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And this district of land that is set apart shall be to them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites .
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Opposite the border of the priests ,
the Levites shall have an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width ;
its entire length shall be twenty-five thousand and its width ten thousand .
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And they shall not sell or exchange any of it ;
they may not alienate this best part of the land ,
for it is holy to the LORD .
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The five thousand cubits in width that remain ,
along the edge of the twenty-five thousand ,
shall be for general use by the city ,
for dwellings and common-land ;
and the city shall be in the center .
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These shall be its measurements :
the north side four thousand five hundred cubits ,
the south side four thousand five hundred ,
the east side four thousand five hundred ,
and the west side four thousand five hundred .
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The common-land of the city shall be :
to the north two hundred and fifty cubits ,
to the south two hundred and fifty ,
to the east two hundred and fifty ,
and to the west two hundred and fifty .
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The rest of the length ,
alongside the district of the holy section ,
shall be ten thousand cubits to the east and ten thousand to the west .
It shall be adjacent to the district of the holy section ,
and its produce shall be food for the workers of the city .
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The workers of the city ,
from all the tribes of Israel ,
shall cultivate it .
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The entire district shall be twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits ,
foursquare .
You shall set apart the holy district with the property of the city .
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The rest shall belong to the prince ,
on one side and on the other of the holy district and of the city '
s property ,
next to the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy district as far as the eastern border ,
and westward next to the twenty-five thousand as far as the western border ,
adjacent to the tribal portions ;
it shall belong to the prince .
It shall be the holy district ,
and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the center .
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Moreover ,
apart from the possession of the Levites and the possession of the city which are in the midst of what belongs to the prince ,
the area between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall belong to the prince .
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As for the rest of the tribes ,
from the east side to the west ,
Benjamin shall have one section ;
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by the border of Benjamin ,
from the east side to the west ,
Simeon shall have one section ;
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by the border of Simeon ,
from the east side to the west ,
Issachar shall have one section ;
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by the border of Issachar ,
from the east side to the west ,
Zebulun shall have one section ;
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by the border of Zebulun ,
from the east side to the west ,
Gad shall have one section ;
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by the border of Gad ,
on the south side ,
toward the South ,
the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh ,
along the brook to the Great Sea .
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This is the land which you shall divide by lot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel ,
and these are their portions ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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These are the exits of the city .
On the north side ,
measuring four thousand five hundred cubits
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the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel ),
the three gates northward :
one gate for Reuben ,
one gate for Judah ,
and one gate for Levi ;
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on the east side ,
four thousand five hundred cubits ,
three gates :
one gate for Joseph ,
one gate for Benjamin ,
and one gate for Dan ;
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on the south side ,
measuring four thousand five hundred cubits ,
three gates :
one gate for Simeon ,
one gate for Issachar ,
and one gate for Zebulun ;
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on the west side ,
four thousand five hundred cubits with their three gates :
one gate for Gad ,
one gate for Asher ,
and one gate for Naphtali .
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All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits ;
and the name of the city from that day shall be :
THE LORD IS THERE ."