Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 591

EZEKIEL. 43 -1 43--27 hundred long, and five hundred { ——thc breast a cubit, and a cubit the broad, to encircle the Temple, to divide the Holy from the Defiled. 43 He then brought me to the gate, I0 II I2 to the gate fac ug towards the east, and I saw me Gmruous Goo of Israel come from the way of the East, with a sounj like the sound of many waters, and the earth was enlightened by His splendour. And the appear- ance of the vision that I saw was like the appearance which I saw when I came to the destruction ofthe city, and visions like the appearance that I saw by the Great River ;+~—and I fell on my face. But the GLORIOUS LIFE came to the Temple by way of the gate that faces towards the East, and the wind lifted me up and brought me to the Inner Court, and I saw the House full of the Splendour of the LIFE. Then I heard from the Temple an address to myself, and a MAN came and stood beside me, and said to me :~—-· ‘Son of Adam! The place for

My Throne, and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will stay amongst the children of Israel for ever! For the House of Israel will not again degrade My HQLY NAME: they and their kings,—-by their

whoredoms, and the carcases of their kings when dead; by placing their threshold by My threshold, and their doors by My doors, with only a wall between Me and them ;·—·by which they degraded MY Hou? NAME, by the depravities which they practised, therefore I consumed them in My

anger. Now let them remove far from Me their fornications,eand the carcases of their kings, and I will stay amongst them for ever. ‘You, Son of Adam, inform the

House of Israel about this Temple, and let them be ashamed of their vices, and let them restore its beauties. And if they are ashamed of all they have done,·—pourtray the Temple, and its form, and exits and entrances, and shape, andlet them know its arrangements, and ordinances, and draw them for their observation, and let them preserve all its plans, and all its arrangements, and use. I`he foundations of the Temple

snall be thetop of this hill ;all round its circumference, is sacred—·these are the foundations. And these are the measurements of the Altar by cubits, of a cubit and a hand breadth ; breadth, with a border around of seven inches,——and the back of the Altar the same. And from the breast of the ground, to the lower landing,-·—two cubits; and the width one cubit; and from the lesser land- ing to the larger landing,--—four cubits; and the breadth a cubit; and the hearth four cubits, with four horns rising up from the hearth; but the hearth shall be twelve long by twelve broad, —— a self·contained square. And the landing shall be fourteen long, by fourteen broad, a perfect square ;-~with a border around it of half a cubit, with a breastwork of a cubit around it, with a staircase facing the East} Son of

Adam! Thus says the MIGHTY LGRDI These are the instructions for the Altar, when they make it, to offer burnt- offerings upon, and sprinkle blood upon. ‘ You shall provide for the priests

of the Levites, who are of the family says to oEer to Me a bullock from the fold for consecra- tion, and he shall take some of its blood and put upon the four horns, and upon the four faces of the land- ings, and upon the surrounding enclosure and consecration, and consecrate it, and expiate for it. Then you shall take the consecrating bull and burnit in the precincts of the Temple, outside the Sanctuary. And on the second day,. you shall offer a perfect he·goat for consecra- tion, and consecrate the altar, as they consecrated with the bullock. ‘ When you have completed the

consecration, offer a perfect bullock from the fold, and a perfect ram from the flock. Present them beforethe- EVER-LxVING;—·-when the priest shall scatter salt upon them, and offer them as a burnboffering to the Evnn·L1v1Nc. Do this for seven days,-—-consecrate a goat daily, and a bnllock from the fold, and a ram from the Bock, offer daily for seven days, andvexpiate for the Altar, and purify it,—-and fill its hands. When these days are completed, then upon the eighth day and forwards, let the priests offer upon the Altar the burnt-offerings, and the peace·offer· says the MIGHTY LORD. $01 16 18 20 Zi 22 26