163 lines
8.3 KiB
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163 lines
8.3 KiB
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## Visions of the House of Yahweh
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In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that same day the hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He brought me there.
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###### 2
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In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and caused me to rest on a very high mountain, and on it to the south _there was_ a structure like a city.
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###### 3
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So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.
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And the man spoke to me, "Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show _it_ to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you are seeing."
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## The East Gate
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And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house _of Yahweh_ all around, and in the man's hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, _each of which was_ a cubit and a handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.
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###### 6
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Then he went to the gate which faced east, went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod in width; and the other threshold _was_ one rod in width.
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The guardroom _was_ one rod long and one rod wide; and _there were_ five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward _was_ one rod.
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###### 8
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Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.
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###### 9
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He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.
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###### 10
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The guardrooms of the gate toward the east _numbered_ three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side.
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###### 11
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And he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
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###### 12
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_There was_ a barrier _wall_ one cubit _wide_ in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms _were_ six cubits _square_ on each side.
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He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from _one_ door to _the_ door opposite.
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###### 14
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He made the side pillars sixty cubits _high_; the gate _extended_ round about to the side pillar of the courtyard.
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_From_ the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate _was_ fifty cubits.
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_There were_ shuttered windows _looking_ toward the guardrooms and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And _there were_ windows all around inside; and on _each_ side pillar _were_ palm tree ornaments.
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## The Outer Court Chambers
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Then he brought me into the outer court, and behold, _there were_ chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
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The pavement (_that is_, the lower pavement) _was_ by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.
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Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, one hundred cubits on the east and on the north.
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## The North Gate
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_As for_ the gate of the outer court which faced the north, he measured its length and its width.
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It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length _was_ fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
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Its windows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments _had_ the same measurements as the gate which faced toward the east; and it was reached by seven steps, and its porch _was_ in front of them.
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The inner court had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as _the gate_ on the east; and he measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate.
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## The South Gate
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Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to those same measurements.
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The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length _was_ fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
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_There were_ seven steps going up to it, and its porches _were_ in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side.
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The inner court had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, one hundred cubits.
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## The Inner Court Gates
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Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.
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Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches _were_ according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it _was_ fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
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_There were_ porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.
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Its porches _were_ toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments _were_ on its side pillars, and its stairway _had_ eight steps.
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Then he brought me into the inner court toward the east. And he measured the gate according to those same measurements.
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Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches _were_ according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it _was_ fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
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Its porches _were_ toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments _were_ on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway _had_ eight steps.
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Then he brought me to the north gate; and he measured _it_ according to those same measurements,
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_with_ its guardrooms, its side pillars, and its porches. And the gate had windows all around; the length _was_ fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
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Its side pillars _were_ toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments _were_ on its side pillars on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
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A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.
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In the porch of the gate _were_ two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.
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On the outer side, as one went up to the entrance of the gate toward the north, _were_ two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate _were_ two tables.
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Four tables _were_ on each side next to the gate; _or_, eight tables on which they slaughter _sacrifices_.
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For the burnt offering _there were_ four tables of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
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The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables _was_ the flesh of the offering.
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## The Chambers for the Priests
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From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, _one of_ which was at the side of the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one at the side of the south gate facing toward the north.
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###### 45
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Then he said to me, "This is the chamber which faces toward the south, _intended_ for the priests who keep the responsibility of the house;
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but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep the responsibility of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to Him."
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He measured the court, a _perfect_ square, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the house.
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## The Porch
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Then he brought me to the porch of the house and measured _each_ side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side.
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The length of the porch _was_ twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended _were_ columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.
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