Chapter 43 Afterward He brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward
the east.
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.
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 Kibar, and I fell upon
my face.
And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east.
So the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court.
And behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
And I heard Him speaking unto me out of the house.
And the man stood by me, 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 forever, and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more
defile, neither they, nor their kings by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of
their kings in their high places, 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.
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their kings far from
me, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
Thou 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, and if they be ashamed of all
that they have done, show 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.
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.
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits.
The cubit is a cubit and an handbreadth.
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.
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.
So the altar shall be four cubits, and from the altar and upward shall be
four horns.
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares
thereof.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it, and they shall consecrate
themselves.
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.