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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 '
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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 .