Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 595

EZEKIEL.

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estate is for his children, and shall coma to them. Thc Prince, however, shall not seize any estate from the people, to deprive them of their property, but his children shall inherit his own property. Therefore he shall not tear away from My People their possessions. Ely: Qrupbzi syututryll tl): ®nuri¤ nf 20 21

g 22 ti): gltztu Qbzmplz. He then took me through the

passage at the side of the gate of the sleeping-rooms, reserved for the priests, facing the north, and I noticed there a space at the back, towards the West. He then said to me :—-· ‘ That is the place where the priests

must boil the trespass and sin oHer· ings; where they must bake the food- ohering, without going to the Outer Court to inconvenience the people} He next took me to the Outer

Court, and went with me to the four corners of the Court, and I perceived a Court at each corner of the Court; and to the four corners of the Court,

Courts were attached,—·—of forty long and thirty broad;-—they were the same measure at each of the four cor¤ers;—·-and there was a colonuade round them, with boilers fixed around under the colonnade. Then he said In this boiler house the ohicials ofthe Temple shall boil the sacrifices of the peop1e.' 3¤r2t21liug the Silling uf tbz @2nh §ca halt init}; water, mth izruralrm in hzrmne it Seaport. 47 Then he took me back into the entrance of the Temple and I per- ceived water issuing from under the entrance of the Temple, eastwards, for the front of the Temple was towards the east,—-and the waters descended from under the right side of the Temple, on the south of the altar. Then he led me towards the North

Gate, and took me round by the way outside the gate along the road that faces eastward, and I observed the waters trickling from the right side, as the man went eastward with the line in his hand and measured a thousand cubits. Then he passed me through the waters,——the increasing waters. He measured a thousand 47-13

again, and passed me through the waters,—- waters up to the knees. Then he measured another thousand and passed me through water to the waist; again he measuied a thousand of a river that I could not pass through,—~the waters had risen, to a swimming river that could not be forded! Son of man,

and brought me back to the bank of the river. On my return I perceived a very great forest on both sides of the river, and These waters will come out from Galileei to How towards the East, and will run down over the Burnt Desert, and arrive at the sea,-——the Sea of the Corrupted and will purify that sea. And it will become a. perfect living life, which will be productive in all to whom it may come. There shall be two living rivers; and they shall have very many fish, when these waters have come there, for they will restore to health and life all who come there to the river. ‘ Fishermen also will be stationing

themselves beside it from Gedidi to Eglaim,——casting their nets. There will be very many nsh of every kind, like the fish- of the Great Sea} But its marshes and fens will not be rectiHed,·—~they will be abandoned to salt. ‘ And by the river up to its banks,

on both sides, every kind .of fruit tree will spring up with unfading foliage, and unfailing fruit, produced monthly, for the waters proceed from the Sanctuary,-—-and the fruit will feed, and the foliage restore to IO II I2 @iirisi¤1t nf the ilzsinrzh Empirr nf Usrazl hzcrzzi. Thus says the Misurv Loan; i3 ‘ You shall divide the country into This

is not the common translation, but is undoubtedly the meaning of the Hebrew n‘;~‘>;, asians.-F. 1*. 2 Dead Sea. The Great Sea!

These words show that the Mediterranean and Dead Sea, and thence the Eastern Gulf of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, will be united by a canal. The late Capt. Cameron, R.N., made plans for it.- l·`. F. 595