and no man shall enter in by it because Ordinances of the priefs. 681 15 But the priests the Levites, the fons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my fanc tuary when the children of Ifrael went aftray from me, they fhall come near to me to minifter unto me, and they shall ftand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, faith the Lord GOD: 16 They shall enter into my fanctuary, 4 Then brought he me the way of the and they fhall come near to my table, to north gate before the houfe: and I look-mmifter unto me, and they shall keep my ed, and, behold the glory of the LORD filled the houfe of the LORD: and I fell upon my face. charge. 17 And it fhall come to país, that when they enter in at the gates of the in 3 And the LORD faid unto me, Son of ner court, they shall be clothed with linen man, mark well, and behold with thine garments; and no wool shall come upon eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I them, while they minifter in the gates fay unto thee concerning all the ordinan-of the inner court, and within. tes of the houfe of the LORD, and all the 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon laws thereof; and mark well the enter-their heads, and shall have linen breeches ing in of the house, with every going upon their loins; they shall not gird themforth of the fanctuary. Jelves with any thing that caufeth fweat. And thou fhalt fay to the rebellious, 19 And when they go forth into the outeven to the houfe of Ifrael, Thus faith the er court, even into the outer court to the Lord God, Oye houfe of Ifrael, let it people, they shall put off their garments fuffice you of all your abominations, wherein they ministered, and lay them in 7 In that ye have brought into my sant-the holy chambers, and they shall put tuary ftrangers, uncircumcifed in heart, on other garments; and they shall not and uncircumcifed in flesh, to be in my fanctify the people with their garments. fanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the nor fuffer their locks to grow long; they blood, and they have broken my covenant shall only poll their heads. becaufe of all your abominations. 8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have fet keepers of my charge in my fanctuary for yourfelves. 9 Thus faith the Lord GOD, No tranger, uncircumcifed in heart, nor uncircumcifed in flesh, fhall enter into my fanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of lfrael. 21 Neither shall any prieft drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away but they shall take maidens of the feed of the houfe of Ifrael, or a widow that had a prieft before. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to difcern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall fland in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my ftatutes in alt mine affemblies; and they shall hallow 10 And the Levites that aregone away far from me, when Ifrael went aftray, which went aftray away from me after their idols; they hall even bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be minifters in my fanctuary, baving charge at the gates of the house, and miniftering to the house: my fabbaths. they hall flay the burnt offering and the 25 And they shall come at no dead facrifice for the people, and they_shall|perfou to defile themselves: but for faftand before them to minifter unto them. ther, or for mother, or for fon, or for 12 Because they miniftered unto them daughter, for brother, or for fifter that before their idols, and caufed the house hath had no hufband, they may defile of Ifrael to fall into iniquity; therefore themselves. have I lifted up mine hand against them, faith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they hall bear their thame and their abominations which they have committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the chargeof the houfe, for all thefervicethereof, and for all that shall be done therein. 40 26 And after he is cleanfed, they shall reckon unto him feven days. 27 And in the day that he goeth into the fanctuary, wnto the inner court, to minifter in the fanctuary, he shall offer his fin offering, faith the Lord God. 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no poffeffion in Ifrael : I am their poffeflion. 29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the fin offering, and the trefpals offering: 682 The divifron of the land. : EZEKIEL. offering and every dedicated thing in Ifrael fhall be theirs. 30 And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every fort of your oblations, thall be the priefts: ye shall alfo give unto the prieft the firft of your dough, that he may caufe the blefling to reft in thine house. 31 The priest fhall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. CHAP. XLV. 1 The portion of land for the fanctuary, 6 The prince's portion. and juffice, take away your exactions 11 The ephah and the bath fhall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof thall be after the homer. 12 And the hekel fhall be twenty gerahs: twenty hekels,five and twenty bekels, fifteen hekels fhall be your maneh. 13 This is the oblation that ye shall offor the city, and for the prince. fer; the fixth part of an ephah of an hoMOREOVER, when ye hall divide mer of wheat, and ye thall give the fixth by lot the land for inheritance, ye fhail part of an ephah of an homer of barley: offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, portion of the land: the length ball be the bath of oil, ye ball offer the tenth the length of five and twenty thousand part of a bath out of the cor, which is reeds, and the breadth ball be ten thou-an homer of ten baths, for ten baths are fand. This ball be holy in all the borders an homer: thereof round about. 2 Of this there shall be for the fanc-of two hundred, out of the fat pastures tuary five hundred in length, with five of Ifrael; for a meat offering, and for a hundred in breadth, fquare round about; burnt offering, and for peace offerings, and fifty cubits round about for the fub- to make reconciliation for them, faith the urbs thereof. Lord GOD. 3. And of this meafure fhalt thou meafure the length of five and twenty thoufand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the fanctuary and the moft holy place. 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out 16 All the people of the land fhall give this oblation for the prince in Ifrael. 17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feafts, and in The holy portion of the land fhall be the new moons, and in the fabbaths, in for the priests the ministers of the fanc-all folemnities of the houfe of Ifrael: he tuary, which shall come near to minif- fhall prepare the fin offering, and the ter unto the LORD: and it fhall be a meat offering, and the burnt offering, and place for their houses, and an holy place the peace offerings, to make reconciliafor the fanctuary. tion for the house of Ifrael. 5 And the five and twenty thoufand of length, and the ten thoufand of breadth, fhall alfo the Levites, the minifters of the houfe, have for themfelves, for a poffeffion for twenty chambers. 6 And ye hall appoint the poffeffion of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thoufand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole houfe of Ifrael. 18 Thus faith the Lord GoD, In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanfe the fanctuary: 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the fin offering, and put it upon the pofts of the houfe, and upon the four corners of the fettle of the altar, and upon the polts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And fo thou shalt do the feventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is fimple: fo thall ye reconcile the house. 7¶ And a portion fball be for the prince on the one fide and on the other fide of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the poffeffion of the city, before the ob- 21. In the first month, in the fourteenth lation of the holy portion, and before the day of the month, ye shall have the poffeffion of the city, from the weft fide pallover, a feast of feven days; unleav weftward, and from the eaft fide eaftened bread (hall be caten. ward and the length ball be over againft 22 And upon that day thall the prince one of the portions from the wett border prepare for himself and for all the people unto the east border. of the land a bullock for a fin offering, 23 And feven days of the feaft he thall 8 In the land fhall be his poffeffion in Ifrael; and my princes fhall no more opprepare a burnt offering to the LORD, prefs my people; and the rest of the land feven bullocks and feven rams without hall they give to the houfe of Ifrael ac- blemish daily the feven days; and a kid cording to their tribes. of the goats daily for a fin offering. 9 Thus faith the Lord God, Let it suffice you, O princes of Ifrael: remove violence and (poil, and execute judgment 24 And he thall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. Ordinances for the prince. Chap. xlvi. His inheritance. 683 25 In the feventh month, in the fif-1 12 Now when the prince shall prepare teenth day of the month, thall he do the a voluntary burnt offering or peace oflike in the feaft of the feven days, accord-ferings voluntarily unto the LORD, one ing to the fin offering, according to the shall then open him the gate that lookburnt offering, and according to the meat eth toward the eaft, and he shall prepare offering, and according to the oil. his burnt offering and his peace offerCHAP. XLVI. ings as he did on the fabbath day: then 1 Ordinances for the prince in bis wor-he fhall go forth and atter his going Jhip, 9 and for the people. forth one thall fhut the gate. THUS faith the Lord GOD, The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the eaft fhall be fhut the fix working days; but on the fabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it fhall be opened. 2 And the prince fhall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and hall ftand by the poft of the gate, and the priest hall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he fhall worship at the threshold of the gate then he shall go forth; but the gate thall not be shut until the evening. : 8 Likewife the people of the land fhall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the fabbaths and in the new moons. 4 And the burnt offering that the prince fhall offer unto the LORD in the fabbath day, ball be fix lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah : 13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. 14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the fixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetu al ordinance unto the LORD. 15 Thus fhall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning, for a continual burnt offering. 16 Thus faith the Lord GOD, If the prince give a gift unto any of his fons, the inheritance thereof shall be his fons'; it ball be their poffeffion by inheritance. 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his fervants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it fhall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his fons' for them. 18 Moreover, the prince thall not take of the people's inheritance by oppreffion, to thrust them out of their poffeflion; but he hall give his fons' inheritance out of 6 And in the day of the new moon his own poffeflion: that my people be not hall be a young bullock without blemish,fcattered every man from his poffeffion. 19 After he brought me through the and fix lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish : entry, which was at the fide of the gate, 7 And he thall prepare a meat offer-into the holy chambers of the priest, ing, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah which looked toward the north for a ram, and for the lambs according behold, there was a place on the two fides as his hand hall attain unto, and an hin weftward. of oil to an ephah. 8 And when the prince shall enter, he fhall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he fhall go forth by the way thereof. 9 But when the people of the land fhall come before the LORD in the folcmn feaft, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship thall go out by the way of the fouth gate; and he that entereth by the way of the fouth gate thall go forth by the way of the north gate he fhall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but all go forth over against it. : 10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in. fhall go in; and when forth. they go forth, shall go 11 And in the feasts, and in the folemnities, the meat offering thall be an ephali to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. and 20 Then faid he unto me, This is the place where the priests hall boil the trofpafs offering and the fin offering, where they fhall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the outer court, to fanctify the people. 21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caufed me to pafs by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. 22 In the four corners of the court:bere were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one meafure. 25 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about. 24 Then faid he unto me, Thefe are the places of them that boil, where the minitters of the house thall boil the facrifice of the people.' CHAP. 684 The wifion of the waters. CHAP. XLVII. EZEKIEL. 1 The vifion of the boly waters. 6 The vir. tue of them. 183 The borders of the land. AFTERWARD he brought me again unto the door of the houfe; and, hebold, waters iflued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house food toward the| eaft, and the waters came down from under from the right fide of the house, at the fouth fide of the altar. 2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the outer gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right fide. 3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he meafured a thoufand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles. The borders of the land. waters, they iffued out of the fanctuary; and the fruit thereof fhall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. 15 ¶ Thus faith the Lord GOD, This ball be the border, whereby ye hall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Ifrael : Joseph sball bave two portions. 14 And ye thall inherit it, one as well as another concerning the which I litted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land thall fall unto you for inheritance. 15 And this sball be the border of the land toward the north fide, from the great fea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damalcus, and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coaft of Hauran. 17 And the border from the fea fhall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, 4 Again he measured a thousand, and and the north northward, and the border brought me through the waters; the wa-of Hamath. And this is the north fide. ters were to the knees. Again he measur- 18 And the eaft fide ye thall measure ed a thousand, and brought me through; from Hauran, and from Damafcus, and the waters were to the loins. from Gilead, and from the land of Ifrael, by Jordan, from the border unto the east fea. And this is the east fide. 5 Afterward he measured a thoufand; and it was a river that I could not pafs over for the waters were rifen, waters to fwim in, a river that could not be paffed over. 6 And he faid unto me, Son of man, Haft thou feen this? Then he brought me, and caufed me to return to the brink of the river. 7 Now when I had returned, behold,'at the bank of the river, were very many trees on the one fide and on the other. 8 Then faid he unto me, Thefe waters iffue out toward the east country, and go down into the defert, and go into the fea which being brought forth into the fea, the waters thall be healed. 19 And the fouth fide fouthward, from Tamar, even to the waters of finite in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the fouth fide fouthward. 20 The weft fide alfo ball be the great fea_from the border till a man come over againft Hamath. This is the welt fide. 21 So fhall ye divide this land unto you, according to the tribes of lírael. 24 And it hall come to pass, that yo fhall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the ftrangers that fojourn among you, which fhall beget children among you; and they thall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Ifrael; they shail have inheritance with you among the tribes of Ifrael. 9 And it thall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whither foever the river thall come, shall live: and 23 And it hall come to pafs. that in there fhall be a very great multitude of what tribe the ftranger fojourneth, there fith, because thefe waters fhall come thith-thall ye give him his inheritance, faith er for they thall be healed; and every the Lord Gop. thing fhall live whither the river cometh. CHAP. XLVIII. 10 And it fhall come to pass, bar the 1, 23 The portions of the twelve tribes, & fishers fhall ftand upon it from Engedi eyen unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to fpread forth nets; their fish fhall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great fea, exceeding many. 11 But the miry places thereof, and the marimes thereof, fhall not be healed; they thall be given to falt. and of the fanuary, Sc. NOW thefe are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Lamaicus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for thefe are his fides eaft and weit, a portisa for Dan. 12 And by the river upon the bank 2 And by the border of Dan, from thereof, on this fide and on that fide, fhall the east lide unto the wett fide, a portion grow all trees for meat, whofe leaf thall for Ather. not fade, neither thall the fruit thereof S And by the border of Asher, from be confumed: it fhall bring forth new fruit the caft fide even unto the welt fide, a according to his months, because their portion for Naphtali, Portions of the twelve tribes, Chap. xiviii. 4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the eaft fide unto the weft fide, a portion for Manaffch. 5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the eaft fide unto the welt tide, a portion for Ephraim. 6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the eaft fide even unto the weft fide, a portion for Reuben. 7 And by the border of Reuben, from the eaft fide even unto the weft fide, a portion for Judah. 8 And by the border of Judah, from the east fide unto the weft fide, fhall be the offering which ye hall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the orber parts, from the eat fide unto the welt fide: and the fanctuary fhall be in the midft of it. 9 The oblation that ye thall offer unto the LORD ball be of five and twenty thoufand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. and of the fan&uary, &c. 685 18 And the refidue in length over againft the oblation of the holy portion fball be ten thousand eastward, and ten thoufand weftward; and it shall be over againft the oblation of the holy portion and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that ferve the city. 19 And they that ferve the city hall ferve it out of all the tribes of Ifrael. 20 All the oblations bull be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thoufand: : ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the poffeflion of the city. 21 And the refidue ball be for the prince, on the one fide and on the other of the ho y oblation, and of the poffefiion of the city, over against the five and twenty thoufand of the oblation toward the east border,and weftward over again!t the five and twenty thoufand toward the weft border, over against the portions for the prince; and it fhall be the holy oblation; and the fanctuary of the house fhall be in the midft thereof. 22 Moreover, from the poffeffion of the Levites, and from the polleffion of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, fhall be for 10 And for them, even for the priests, fhall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thoufand in length, and toward the weft ten thoufand in breadth, and toward the east ten thoufand in breadth, and toward the fouth five and twenty thousand in length: and the fanc-the prince. tuary of the LORD thall be in the midít thereof. 11 It ball be for the priests that are fanctified of the fons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not altray when the children of Ifrael went aflray, as the Levites went aftray. 12 And this oblation of the land that is offered fhall be unto them a thing molt holy by the border of the Levites. 13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites all have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thou fand in breadth all the length ball be five and twenty thousand,and the breadth ten thoufand. 14 And they fhall not fell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firft fruits of the land for it is holy unto the LORD. 15 And the five thoufand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for fuburbs: and the city shall be in the midft thereof. 16And thele ball be the measures thereof; the north fide four thoufand and five hundred, and the fouth fide four thoufand and five hundred, and on the eaft fide four thousand and five hundred, and the west fide four thousand and five hundred. 23 As for the reft of the tribes, from the eatt fide unto the weft fide, Benjamin ball have a portion. 21 And by the border of Benjamin, from the eaft fide unto the well fide, Simeon ball have a portion. 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the weft fide, Iffachar a portion. 26 And by the border of Iffachar, from the east side unto the weft fide, Zebulun a portion. 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the eaft fide unto the weft fide, Gad a portion. 28 And by the border of Gad at the south side fouthward, the border shall be even from Tamar unio the waters of firife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great fea. 29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Hiraet for inheritance, and these are their portions, faith the Lord God. 30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north fide, four thousand and five hundred measures. 31 And the gates of the city all be af ter the names of the tribes of Ifrael: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one fate of Levi. 32 And at the east fide four thoufand and five hundred and three gates; and one gate of Jofeph, one gate of Benjamin, 17 And the fuburbs of the city thall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the fouth two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the welt two hun-one gate of Dan. dred and fifty. 33 And at the fouth fide four thousand and |