The priefis reproved. Chap. xlv. THEN he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward fanctuary which looketh toward the caft; and it was fhut. 2 Then faid the LORD unto me, This gate thall be shut, it fhall not be opened, and no man fhall enter in by it: becaufe the LORD the God of Ifrael hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince: the prince, he shall fit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he hail enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and thall go out by the way of the fame. 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the houfe: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the houfe of the Lord: and I fell upon my tace. 5 And the LORD faid unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I fay unto thee concerning ari the ordinances of the houfe of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the houfe, with every going forth of the fanctuary. 6 And thou shalt fay to the rebellious, even to the house of Ifrael, Thus faith the Lord GOD, O ya Hofe of Ifrael, let it fuffice you of all your abominations, 7 In that ye have brought into my fanc tuary ftrangers uncircumcifed in heart and uncircumcited in desh, to be in my fanctuary, to pollute it, even my houfe, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, because 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 yourselves. Thus faith the Lord GoD; No tranger, Uncircumcifed in heart, nor uncircumcifed in flesh, shall enter into my fanctuary, of any ftranger that is among the children of Ifrael. 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Ifrael went aftray, which went anray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be minifters in my fanc tuary, having charge at the gates of the houfe, and ministering to the houfe: they shall flay the burnt offering, and the facrifice for the people, and they thall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the houfe of If rael to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, faith the Lord Gop, and they thall bear their iniquity. 13 And they fhall not come near unto me, to do the office of a prien unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the moit holy place: but they mall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the houfe for all the fervice thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.. 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 shall come near to me 10 minuter unto me, and they hall ftand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, faith the Lord GOD: 16 They shall enter into my fanétuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minifter uuto me, and they shall keep my charge. . Ordinances for them. 37 And it fhall come to pafs, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they fhall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool fhall come upon them, while they minifter in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and fhall have linen breeches upon their loins: they shall not gird themfelves with any thing that caufeth fweat. 19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they fhall put off their garments wherein they miniftered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they thall not fanctify the people with their garments. 20 Neither thall they have their heads, nor fuffer their locks to grow long; they thall only poll their heads. 21 Neither shall any prieft drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither thall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they thall take maidens of the feed of the house of Ifrael, or a widow that had a priest before. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and caufe them to difcern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controverfy they shall stand in judgment; and they thall judge it accort ing to my judgments: and they that keep my laws and my ftatutes in all mine attem blies; and they shall hallow my fabbaths. 25 And they shall come at no dead perfou to defile themfelves: but for father, or for mother, or for fon, or for daughter, for brother, or for fifter that hath had no huf band, they may defile themselves. 26 And after he is cleanfed, they fhall reckon unto him seven days. 27 And in the day that he goeth into the fanctuary, unto the inner court, to minifter in the fanctuary, he shall offer his fin offer. ing, faith the Lord God. 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: 1 am their inheritance: and ye fhall give them no poffeilion in Ifrael: 1 am their poffetlion. 29 They thall eat the meat offering, and the fin offering, and the trefpafs offering; and every dedicated thing in Ifrael thall be their's. 30 And the firft of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every fort of your oblations thall be the priests: ye fhall alfo give unto the priest the firit of your dough, that he may cause the blething to rest in thine houfe. 31 The priests fhall not eat of any thing that is deal of itfelt, or torn, whether it be fowl or beat. CHAP. XLV. 1 The portion of land for the fanctuary, 6 for the city, and for the prince. Moreover, when ye thall divide by lot the land inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length ball be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth fhall be ten thousand. This ball be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 Of this there thall be for the fanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in A a 4 breadibs The divison of the land. EZEKIEL. Breadth, fquare round about; and fifty cubits round about for the fuburbs thereof, 3 And of this measure fhalt thou meafure the length of five and twenty thoufand, and the breadth of ten thousand and in it thall be the fanctuary and the most holy place. 4 The holy portion of the land thall be for the pries the ministers of the fanétuary, which shall come near to minifter unto the LORD: and it thall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the fanctuary, 5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, ahall alfo the Levites, the minifiers of the house, have for themfelves, for a poffettion aer twenty chambers. And ye shall appoint the poffeffion or the city five thousand broad and five and twenty thoufand long over against the oblation of the holy portion: it fhall be for the whole houfe of Ifrael. 7 And a portion fhall be for the prince on The one fide and on the other fide of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the poffethon of the city before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the poemon of the city, srom the went fude weftward, and from the cart tide caftward: and the length_shall be over against one of the portions, from the welt border tmto the catt border. 8 In the land fhall be his poffeffion in Krael and my princes thall no more opprefs my pople; and the reft of the land thall they ive to the house of Ifrael according to their tribes. 9 Thus faith the Lord Gop; Let it fuffice vou, o princes of Ifrau, remove violence and fpoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, faith the Lord Gop. 10 Ye hall have juft balances, and a juft ephah, and a just bath. 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 shall be after the homer. 12 And the thekel sbail he twenty gerahs: twenty thekels, five and twenty fhekels, fif teen hekels, thall be your manch. 13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the fixth part of an ephan of an homer of barley. 14, Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye Hall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two handred, out of the fat pastures of Ifrael; for a meat offering, and tor a burnt offering, and or peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, faith the Lord GoD. 16 All the people of the land fall give this oblation for the prince in Ifrac.. 17 And it shall be the prince's part to give barnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the teafts, and in the new moons, and in the fabbaths, in all fo femnities of the houfe of Ifrael: he thall prepare the fin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offer ings, to make reconciliation for the house of racl. 18 Thus faith the Lord GOD; In the firft The prince's inheritance. month, in the first day of the month, thou thalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanfe the fanctuary: 19 And the pricit shall take of the blood of the fin onering, and put it upon the pods of the house, and upon the four corners of the fettle of the altar, and upon the ports of the gate of the inner court. 20 And to thoa fhalt do the feventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is fimple: fo fhall ye reconcile the house. 21 In the firft month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the paffover, a feart of feven days; unleavened bread fall be eaten.. 22 And upon that day thall the prince pre pare for himfeli and for all the people of the land a bullock for a fin offering. 23 And feven days of the feat he shall pre pare a burnt offering to the LORD, feven bal locks and feven rams without blemish daily the feven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a fin offering. 24 And he thall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, ami au ephah for a 1am, and an hin of oil for an ephali. 25 In the feventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, thall be do the like in the feart of the feven days, according to the fia offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. CHAP. XLVI. 1 Ordinances for the prince in bis worship, 9 and for the people. THUS faith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the caft thall be shut the fix working days; but on the fabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it thall be opened. 2 And the prince fhall eater by the way of the porch of that gate without, and thall frand by the pon of the gate, and the priest thall prepare his burnt offering, and his peace of ferings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth: but the gate thall no: be that until the evening. 3 Likewife the people of the land fhall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the fabbaths and in the mooAS. new 4 And the burnt offering that the prince thall offer unto the LORD in the fabbath day shall be fix lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 5 And the meat offering all be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he thall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 6 And in the day of the new moon it Bull be a young bullock without blemish, and fix lambs, and a ram: they thall be without blemish. 7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand thail attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. 8 And when the prince fhall enter, he thall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof 9 But when the people of the land thall come before the LORD in the folemin feats, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worthip thall go out by the way of the Ordinances for the people. Chap. xlvll. the fouth gate; and he that untereth by the way of the fouth gate thall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but thall go forth over against it. 10 And the prince in the mid of them, when they go in, fhall go in; and when they go forth, thall go forth." 11 And in the feats and in the folemnities the meat offering fhall be an ephah 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. 12 Now when the prince fhall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one thall then open him the gate that looketh toward the ear, and he thall prepare his burnt odering and his peace offerings, as he did on the fabbath day: then he thall go forth: and after his going forth one thall that the gate. 13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt of fering unto the LORD of a lamb of the firt 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 perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. 15 Thus fhall they prepare the lamb, and the meat odering, 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 all be their poffefion by inheritance. 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his fervants, then it thall be his to the year of liberty; after it fhall return to the prince: but his inheritance thall be his fons for them. 18 Moreover, the prince fhall not take of the people's inheritance by oppreifion, to thrust them out of their poffeffion; but he thall give his fons' inheritance out of his own poffettion: that my people be not fcattered every man from his poffeifion. 19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the fide of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north; and, behold, there was a place on the two fides weftward. 20 Then faid he unto me, This is the place where the priests thall boil the trefpafs 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 there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: thefe four corners were of one meafure. 23 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 mihifters of the houfe fhall boil the facrifice of the people. The vikon of the waters." CHAP. XLVII. 1 The vifion of the holy waters, 6 The vir tue of them. 13 The borders of the land. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the houfe; and, behold, waters Tued out from under the threshold of the house eartward: for the fore front of the houfe food toward the east, 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 measured a thou fand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles. 4 Again be measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. 5 Afterwards he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were rifen, waters to fwim in, a river that could not be pailed over. 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: whith being brought forth into the fea, the waters thall be healed. 9 And it fhall come to pass that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whitherfoever the river fhall come, thall live: and there fhall be a very great multitude of fifh, because thefe waters hall come thither: for they fhall be healed; and every thing fhall live whither the river cometh. 10 And it shall come to pass that the fishers fhall stand upon it from En-geli even unto En-eglaim; they all be a place to spread forth nets; their fifh fhall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great fea, exceeding many. But the miry places thereof and the marthes thereof thall not be healed; they sha!! be given to falt. 12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this ide and on that fide, fhall grow all trees for meat, whofe leaf fhall not fade, neither thall the fruit thereof be confumed: it fhall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they infued out of the fanctuary: and the fruit thereof fhall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for me. dicine. 13 Thus faith the Lord Gon; This all be the border whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Ifrael: Jofeph ball have two portions. 14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers; and this land fhall fall unto you for inheritance. 15 And this ball be the border of the land toward the north file from the great fea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad: Aas 16 Hamaik the land divided. BZEKIEL. 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damafcus, and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 17 And the border from the fea fhall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damafcus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north fide. 18 And the caft fide ye fhall measure from Hauran, and from Damafcus, and from GI lead, and from the land of Ifrael by Jordan, from the border unto the east fea. And this is the eart fide. 19 And the fouth fide fouthward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great fea. And this is the fouth fide fouthward. 20 The went fide alfo fall be the great fea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the weft fide. 21 So fhall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Ifrael. 22 And it fhall come pafs, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the frangers that fojourn among you, which thall beget children among you: and they fhall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Ifrael: they haft have inheritance with you among the tribes of Ifrael. 23 And it thall come to pafs, that in what tribe the stranger fojourneth, there fhall ye give Bim his inheritance, faith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XLVIII. 1, 23 The portions of the twelve tribes, 8 of the fanctuary, &c. Now thefe are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coaft of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-cnan, the border of Damafcus north ward, to the coaft of Hamath; for thefe are his fides cast and west, a portion for Dan. 2 And by the border of Dan, from the east fide unto the weft fide, a portion for Afher. 3 And by the border of Afher, from the eaft itde even unto the weft fide, a portion for Naphtali. 4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the cat fide unto the weft fide, a portion for Manaffeh. 5 And by the border of Manaffeh, from the ezit fide unto the weft fide, a portion for Ephraim. 6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the eaft fide even unto the weit fide, a portion for Reuben. 7 And by the border of Reuben, from the caft fide unto the weft fide, a portion for Judah. 8 And by the border of Judah, from the eaft fide unto the weft fide, fhall be the offer. ing which ye shall offer of five and twenty houfand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the eaft fide unto the weft fide: and the fanctuary fhall be in the midst of it. The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD bail be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thoufand in breadth. 10 And for them, even for the priests, thall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thoofand in length, and toward hoofand in breadth, and toward find in breadth, and toward she wi The different partianik the fouth five and twenty thousand in length and the fanctuary of the LORD thall be in the midit thereof. I fall be for the priests that are fanctified of the fons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, whien went not aitray, when the children of Ifrael went attray, as the Levites went antray. 12 And this oblation of the land that is offered thall be unto them a thing mort holy by the border of the Levites. 13 And over against the border of the prieits the Levites ball have five and twenty thouland in length, and ten thoufand in breadth: all the length fall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thous fand. 14 And they fhall not fel! of it, neither ex. change, nor alienate the first traits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD. 15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the live and twenty thousand, thall be a profane place for the city: for dwelling, and for fuburbs: and the city fhall be in the midft thereof. 16 And these ball be the muafures thereof; the north fine four thousand and five hundred, and the fouth fide four thousand and five bundred, and on the caft fide four thousand and five hundred, and the weft fide four thoufand and five hundred. 17 And the fuburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the fouth two hundred and fifty, and to ward the east two hundred and fifty, and to ward the wet two hundred and fifty. 18 And the refidue in length over againit the oblation of the holy portion all be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand weft. ward; and it fhall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase there. of thall be for food unto them that ferve the city. 19 And they that ferve the city fhall ferve it out of all the tribes of lfrael. 20 All the oblation ball be five and twenty thoufand, by five and twenty thousand ye thall offer the holy oblation four square, with the poffettion of the city. 21 And the refidue ball be for the prince, on the one fide and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the poffeffion of the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the caft border, and westward over against the five and twenty thoufand toward the wet border, over against the portions for the prince: and it thall be the holy oblation; and the fanctuary of the house ball be in the midft thereof, 22 Moreover, from the poffeffion of the Levites, and from the poffettion of the city, being in the midft of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, fhall be for the prince. 23 As for the rest of the tribes from the caft fide unto the wet fide, Benjamin all have a portion. 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the cat fide unto the weft fide, Simeon feall bave a portion. 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the cart fide unto the west fide, portion, achar a a6 And Jehoiakim's captivity. Chap. 1, fl. The king's meat refused. the names of the tribes of Ifrael: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. 32 And at the east fide four thousand and five hundred and three gates; one gate of Jofeph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate, of Dan. 33 And at the fouth fide four thousand and five hundred measures; and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Ifachar, one gate of Zebulun. 34 At the weft fide four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Aiher, one gate of Naphtali. 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from ther day ball be, The LORD is there. I The Book of DANIEL. СНАР. 1. Fahoiakim's captivity. 3 Appenaz taketh Daniel, Hananiah, Misbael, and Azariah: 8 they, refusing the king's portion, do profper with pulse and water: 17 their excellency in wifdom. Ning bird year of came Nebuchadnezzar N the third year of the reign of Jehakim king of Babylon unto Jerufalem, and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the verfels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the houfe of his god; and he brought the veifels into the treasure houfe of his god. 3 And the king fpake unto Afhpenaz the matter of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Ifrael, and of the king's feed, and of the princes; 4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and ikilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding fcience, and fuch as bad ability in them to ftand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chal. deans. $ And the king appointed them a daily provilion of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank fo nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might ftand before the king. 6 Now among thefe were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mifhael, and Azariah: 7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Beltethazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach, and to Mihael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego. 8 But Daniel purpofed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himfelf. 13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenances of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seeft, deal with thy fervants. 14 So he confented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. 15 And at the end of ten days their coun tenances appeared fairer and fatter in fiefh than all the children which did eat the por tion of the king's meat. 16 Thus Meizar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulfe. 17 As for thefe four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wifdom: and Daniel had understanding in all vifions and dreams. 18 Now at the end of the days that the king had faid he fhould bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in be- tore Nebuchadnezzar. 19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mihael, and Azariah : therefore ftood they before the king. 20 And in all matters of wisdom and underitanding that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and aftrologers that were in all his realm, 21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus. HA P. II. Nebuchadnezzar forgetteth his dream. 14 Daniel findeth it." 31 The dream, 36 Aof Nebuchadnezzar, and interpretation thereof. ND in the fecond year of the reign Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his fpirit was › troubled, and his fleep brake from him. 2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, Aao |