Ezekiel 43

Ezekiel's Vision and Awe Ezekiel 43:3–5

³Verse 3. 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 Chebar; and I fell on my face. ⁴Verse 4. Yahweh’s glory came into the house by the way of the gate which faces toward the east. ⁵Verse 5. The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.

God's Promise of Presence Ezekiel 43:6–9

⁶Verse 6. I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. ⁷Verse 7. He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places; ⁸Verse 8. in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Ttherefore I have consumed them in my anger.

⁹Verse 9. Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.

Instructions for Israel Ezekiel 43:10–12

¹⁰Verse 10. “You, 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. ¹¹Verse 11. If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. ¹²Verse 12. “This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Regulations for Worship Ezekiel 43:13–27

¹³Verse 13. “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. ¹⁴Verse 14. From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit. ¹⁵Verse 15. The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

¹⁶Verse 16. The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides. ¹⁷Verse 17. The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.” ¹⁸Verse 18. He said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it. ¹⁹Verse 19. You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering.

²⁰Verse 20. You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way. ²¹Verse 21. You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. ²²Verse 22. “On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. ²³Verse 23. When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect.

²⁴Verse 24. You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh. ²⁵Verse 25. “Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect. ²⁶Verse 26. Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it. ²⁷Verse 27. When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”