Eze 41-46 | ESV | STEP | Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs . On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs .

1 Then he brought me to ^athe nave and measured the ^bjambs. On each side six cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} was the breadth of the jambs. ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint; Hebrew tent} 2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, ^{▼▼Hebrew its length} ^fforty cubits, and its breadth, ^gtwenty cubits. 3 Then he went ^hinto the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew and the breadth} of the entrance, seven cubits. 4 And he measured ^jthe length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across ^kthe nave. And he said to me, “This is ^lthe Most Holy Place.”

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of ^mthe side chambers, four cubits, ⁿall around the temple. 6 And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, ^othirty in each story. There were offsets ^{▼▼Septuagint, compare 1 Kings 6:6; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain} all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, ^qso that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. 7 And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and ^rso one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. 8 I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of ^ssix long cubits. 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. ^tThe free space between the side chambers of the temple and the 10 ^uother chambers was a breadth of ^vtwenty cubits all around the temple on every side. 11 And the doors of the ^wside chambers opened on ^xthe free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.

12 The building that was facing ^ythe separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 Then he measured the temple, ^za hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; 14 also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.

15 Then he measured the length of ^aathe building facing the yard that was at the back and ^abits galleries ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is unknown; also verse 16} on either side, a hundred cubits.

The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court, 16 ^adthe thresholds and ^aethe narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered), 17 to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern. ^{▼▼Hebrew were measurements} 18 It was carved of ^agcherubim and ^ahpalm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces: 19 ^aia human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around. 20 From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.

21 The doorposts of ^ajthe nave were squared, and in front of ^akthe Holy Place was something resembling 22 ^alan altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks two cubits broad} Its corners, its base, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew length} and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is ^aothe table that is before the Lord.” 23 The nave and the Holy Place had each ^apa double door. 24 The double doors had two leaves apiece, ^aqtwo swinging leaves for each door. 25 And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, ^arsuch as were carved on the walls. And there was ^asa canopy ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown; also verse 26} of wood in front of ^authe vestibule outside. 26 And there were ^avnarrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, ^awthe side chambers of the temple, and the ^axcanopies.

Ezekiel 42

The Temple’s Chambers

1 Then he led me out into ^aythe outer court, ^aztoward the north, and he brought me to ^bathe chambers that were opposite ^bbthe separate yard and opposite ^bcthe building on the north. 2 The length of the building whose door faced north was ^bda hundred cubits, ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} and ^bfthe breadth fifty cubits. 3 Facing ^bgthe twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing ^bhthe pavement that belonged to the outer court, was ^bigallery ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown; also verse 5} against gallery in three stories. 4 And ^bkbefore the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and ^bla hundred cubits long, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew and a way of one cubit} and ^bntheir doors were on the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. 6 For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. 7 And ^bothere was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, ^bpfifty cubits long. 8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite ^bqthe nave ^{▼▼Or temple} were ^bsa hundred cubits long. 9 Below these chambers was ^btan entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

10 In the thickness of ^buthe wall of the court, on the south ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew east} also, opposite ^bwthe yard and opposite ^bxthe building, there were ^bychambers 11 with ^bza passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits ^{▼▼Hebrew and all their exits} and arrangements and ^cbdoors, 12 as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before ^ccthe corresponding wall on the east as one enters them. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain}

13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite ^cethe yard are the holy chambers, ^cfwhere the priests who approach the Lord ^cgshall eat the ^chmost holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings— ^cithe grain offering, ^cjthe sin offering, and ^ckthe guilt offering—for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court ^clwithout laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. ^cmThey shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”

15 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by ^cnthe gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. 16 He measured the east side with ^cothe measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 17 He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 18 He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 19 Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had ^cpa wall around it, ^cq500 cubits long and ^cr500 cubits broad, ^csto make a separation between the holy and the common.

Ezekiel 43

The Glory of the Lord Fills the Temple

1 Then he led me to ^ctthe gate, the gate facing east. 2 And behold, ^cuthe glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And ^cvthe sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and ^cwthe earth shone with his glory. 3 And ^cxthe vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen ^cywhen he ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts when I} came to destroy the city, and just like ^dathe vision that I had seen ^dbby the Chebar canal. And ^dcI fell on my face. 4 As ^ddthe glory of the Lord ^deentered the temple by the gate facing east, 5 ^dfthe Spirit lifted me up and brought me into ^dgthe inner court; and behold, ^dhthe glory of the Lord filled the temple.

6 ^diWhile the man was standing beside me, ^djI heard one speaking to me out of the temple, 7 and he said to me, ^dk“Son of man, this is ^dlthe place of my throne and ^dmthe place of the soles of my feet, ^dnwhere I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more ^dodefile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies ^{▼▼Or the monuments; also verse 9} of their kings at their high places, ^{▼▼Or at their deaths} 8 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with ^dronly a wall between me and them. They have ^dsdefiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, ^dtand I will dwell in their midst forever.

10 “As for you, ^duson of man, ^dvdescribe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan. 11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, ^dwmake known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, ^dxits exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down ^dyin their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out. 12 This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of ^dzthe mountain ^eaall around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

The Altar

13 “These are the measurements of ^ebthe altar by cubits (the cubit being ^eca cubit and a handbreadth): ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; a handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters} its base shall be one cubit high ^{▼▼Or its gutter shall be one cubit deep} and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span ^{▼▼A span was about 9 inches or 22 centimeters} around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar: 14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; 15 and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, ^egfour horns. 16 The altar hearth shall be ^ehsquare, twelve cubits long by twelve broad. 17 The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. ^eiThe steps of the altar shall face east.”

18 And he said to me, ^ej“Son of man, thus says the Lord God: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and ^ekfor throwing blood against it, 19 you shall give to ^elthe Levitical priests ^emof the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord God, ^ena bull from the herd for a sin offering. 20 And ^eoyou shall take some of its blood and put it on ^epthe four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon ^eqthe rim all around. ^erThus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it. 21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and ^esit shall be burned in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area. 22 And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull. 23 When you have finished ^etpurifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and ^eua ram from the flock without blemish. 24 You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests ^evshall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord. 25 ^ewFor seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided. 26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it. ^{▼▼Hebrew fill its hand} 27 And when they have completed these days, then ^eyfrom the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your ^ezpeace offerings, and ^faI will accept you, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 44

The Gate for the Prince

1 Then he brought me ^fbback to the outer gate of the sanctuary, ^fcwhich faces east. And it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for ^fdthe Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut. 3 Only ^fethe prince may sit in it ^ffto eat bread before the Lord. He ^fgshall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”

4 Then he brought me by way of ^fhthe north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, ^fithe glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord. And ^fjI fell on my face. 5 And the Lord said to me, ^fk“Son of man, mark well, ^flsee with your eyes, ^fmand hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning ^fnall the statutes of the temple of the Lord and all its laws. And mark well ^fothe entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary. 6 And say to ^fpthe rebellious house, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks house} to the ^frhouse of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: O house of Israel, ^fsenough of all your abominations, 7 in ^ftadmitting foreigners, ^fuuncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, ^fvprofaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew They} have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations. 8 And ^fxyou have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

9 “Thus says the Lord God: ^fyNo foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary. 10 But ^fzthe Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols ^gawhen Israel went astray, ^gbshall bear their punishment. ^{▼▼Or iniquity; also verse 12} 11 They shall be ^gdministers in my sanctuary, having oversight ^geat the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and ^gfthey shall stand before the people, to minister to them. 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols and became ^gga stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have ^ghsworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment. 13 They ^gishall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but ^gjthey shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed. 14 Yet I will appoint them to keep ^gkcharge of the temple, ^glto do all its service and all that is to be done in it.

Rules for Levitical Priests

15 “But ^gmthe Levitical priests, ^gnthe sons of Zadok, who kept ^gothe charge of my sanctuary ^gpwhen the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me ^gqto minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me ^grthe fat and the blood, declares the Lord God. 16 They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach ^gsmy table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear ^gtlinen garments. They shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat. 19 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering ^guand lay them in the holy chambers. And ^gvthey shall put on other garments, ^gwlest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments. 20 ^gxThey shall not shave their heads or ^gylet their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads. 21 ^gzNo priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22 ^haThey shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. 23 ^hbThey shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and ^hcshow them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. 24 ^hdIn a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and ^hethey shall keep my Sabbaths holy. 25 ^hfThey shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves. 26 ^hgAfter he ^{▼▼That is, a priest} has become clean, they shall count seven days for him. 27 And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, ^hiinto the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, ^hjhe shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord God.

28 ^hk“This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ^hlyou shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. 29 ^hmThey shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and ^hnevery devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 ^hoAnd the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. ^hpYou shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, ^hqthat a blessing may rest on your house. 31 ^hrThe priests shall not eat of ^hsanything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.

Ezekiel 45

The Holy District

1 “When ^htyou allot the land as an inheritance, ^huyou shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} long and 20,000 ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew ten} cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent. 2 ^hxOf this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for ^hyan open space around it. 3 And ^hzfrom this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, ^iain which shall be the sanctuary, ^ibthe Most Holy Place. 4 ^icIt shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 ^idAnother section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in. ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew as their possession, twenty chambers}

6 “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district ^ifyou shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. ^igIt shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

The Portion for the Prince

7 ^ih“And to ⁱⁱthe prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary 8 of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And ^ijmy princes shall no more oppress my people, but ^ikthey shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.

9 “Thus says the Lord God: ^ilEnough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease ^imyour evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.

10 ⁱⁿ“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. ^{▼▼An ephah was about 3/5 of a bushel or 22 liters; a bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters} 11 The ephah and the bath shall be ^ipof the same measure, ^iqthe bath containing one tenth of a homer, ^{▼▼A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters} and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 ^isThe shekel shall be twenty gerahs; ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram} twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. ^{▼▼A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram}

13 ^iv“This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, 14 and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor ^{▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters} (the cor, like the homer, contains ^ixten baths). ^{▼▼See Vulgate; Hebrew (ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer)} 15 And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, ^izto make atonement for them, declares the Lord God. 16 All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel. 17 ^jaIt shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.

18 “Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, ^jbon the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and ^jcpurify the sanctuary. 19 ^jdThe priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it ^jeon the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.

21 ^jf“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 On that day the prince ^jgshall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. 23 And on ^jhthe seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and ^jia male goat daily for a sin offering. 24 And ^jjhe shall provide as ^jka grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin ^{▼▼A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters} of oil to each ephah. 25 ^jmIn the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, ^jnhe shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.

Ezekiel 46

The Prince and the Feasts

1 “Thus says the Lord God: ^joThe gate of ^jpthe inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and ^jqon the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 ^jrThe prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by ^jsthe post of the gate. ^jtThe priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at ^juthe threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. 3 ^jvThe people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. 4 ^jwThe burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord ^jxon the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. 5 And ^jythe grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, ^{▼▼An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters} and the grain offering with the lambs shall be ^kaas much as he is able, together with a hin ^{▼▼A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters} of oil to each ephah. 6 On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. 7 As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs ^kcas much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. 8 ^kdWhen the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

9 ^ke“When the people of the land ^kfcome before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. 10 When they enter, ^kgthe prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

11 “At the feasts and the appointed festivals, ^khthe grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs ^kias much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. 12 When the prince provides ^kja freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, ^kkthe gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings ^klas he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.

13 ^km“You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. 14 And ^knyou shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute. 15 Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for ^koa regular burnt offering.

16 “Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. 17 But if he makes a gift ^kpout of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to ^kqthe year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. 18 ^krThe prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, ^ksthrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be ^ktscattered from his property.”

Boiling Places for Offerings

19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was ^kuat the side of the gate, to the north row of ^kvthe holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them. 20 And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests ^kwshall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where ^kxthey shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so ^kytransmit holiness to the people.”

21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court— 22 in the four corners of the court were small ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain} courts, forty cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size. 23 On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around. 24 Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who ^lbminister at the temple ^lcshall boil the sacrifices of the people.”