Day 331 of 365

Ezek 42:1–43:27

42:1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the room that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.

42:2 Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

42:3 Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

42:4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

42:5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

42:6 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

42:7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

42:8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

42:9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

42:10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

42:11 The way before them was like the appearance of the way of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

42:12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

42:13 Then he said to me, "The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

42:14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people."

42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.

42:16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

42:17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

42:18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

42:20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.

43:2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.

43:3 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.

43:4 The glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

43:5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.

43:6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

43:7 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 in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall 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;

43:8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

43:9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in their midst forever.

43:10 "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.

43:11 If they be 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.

43:12 "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.

43:13 "These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

43:14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.

43:15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

43:16 The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.

43:17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; 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."

43:18 He said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord God: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

43:19 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord God, a young bull for a sin offering.

43:20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

43:21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

43:22 "On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

43:23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

43:24 You shall bring them near to the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the Lord.

43:25 "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 blemish.

43:26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

43:27 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; and I will accept you, says the Lord God."

Heb 5:1–14

1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

2 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

5 So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."

6 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."

7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Job 34:14–25

14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?-

18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?

19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.