The pricks reproved. THEN Chap. xlv. 'HEN he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward fanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was thut. 1 Then faid the LORD unto me, This gate thall be thut, it shall not be opeaed, and no man shall enter in by it: because the LORD the God of Ifrael hath entered in by it, therefore it fhall be shut. 3 It is for the prince: the prince, he shall fit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he fhall 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, aud, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the houfe of the Lord: and I fell upon my face. 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 all the ordinances of the house 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, Oye houfe of Ifrael, let it fuffice you of all our abominations, 7 In that ye have brought into my fancfuary ftrangers uncircumcited in heart and uncircumcited in flesh, to be in my fanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, 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 yourselves. Thus faith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcifed in heat, nor uncircumcifed in fleth, thall enter into my fanctuary, of any franger that is among the children of Ifrael. 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Ifrael went attray, which went aftray away from me after their idols; they fhall even bear their iniquity. 1 Yet they shall be minifters in my fanetuary, having charge at the gates of the houfe, and minintering to the houfe: they shall lay the burnt offering, and the facrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minifter unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them be fore their idols, and caufed 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 thall not come near unto me, to do the office of a prief unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, In the most holy place: but they mall bear their fhame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the houfe for all the fervice thereef, and for all that shall be done therein. Zadok, that kept the charge of my fanc 15 But the pricfts the Levites, the fons of tuary, when the children of Ifrael went aftray from me, they shall come near to me to miniiter unto me, and they thall ftand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, faith the Lord Gop: 16 They shall enter into my fanétuary, and they fhall come near to my table, to minister auto me, and they shall keep my charge, Ordinances for them. 17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments a and no wool thall come upon them, while they minifter in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They hall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and fhall have linen breeches upon their loins: they shall not gird themfelves with any thing that causeth feat. 19 And when they go torth into the out. er court, even into the outer court to the people, they thall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they hall put on other garments; and they fhall not fanctify the people with their garments. 20 Neither thall they have their heads, nor fuifer their locks to grow long; they fhall only poll their heads. 21 Neither hall any prieft drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither thall they take tor their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they fhall take maidens of the feed or the house of Ifrael, or a widow that had a pricit before. 23 And they hall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and caule them to difcern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controverfy they shall ftand in judgment; and they thall judge it accord. ing to my juigments: and they thall keep my laws and my ftatutes in all mine afleniblies; and they hall hallow my fabbaths. 25 And they fhall come at nodead pers fon to defile themselves: but for idcher, or for mother, or for fon, or for daughter, for brother, or for fiter that hath had no but. band, they may defile themselves. 26 And after he is cleanfed, they fhall reckon unto him feven days. 27 And in the day that he goeth into the fanctuary, unto the inuer court, to minister in the fanctuary, he shall offer his fin offer. ing, faith the Lord GOD. 28 And it fhall be unto them for an io. heritance: I am their inheritance: and ye fhall give then no poffeffion în Ifrael: I do their poffeilion. 29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the fin offering, and the trefpafs offering and every dedicated thing in ffract tali be their's. 30 And the first of all the fir fruits of alt things, and every oblation of all, of every fort of your oblations thall be the pricfts: ye thall alfo give unto the priest the art of your dough, that he may caute the blc.fing to rett in thine houfe. 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is deal of itfelf, or torn, whether it be fowl or beaft. CHAP. XLV. The portion of land for the fanfluary, 6 for the city, and for the prince. M land for inheritance, ye shall offer an Oreover, when ye shall divide by lot the oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length ball be the length of five and twenty thoufand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This ball be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 Of this there fhall be for the fanctuary five hundred in length, with hve hundred The division of the land. EZEKIE L. breadth, fquare round about; and fifty cubits round about for the fuburbs thereof. 3 And of this meafure thalt thou meafure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand and in it thall be the fanctuary and the moit holy place. 4 The holy portion of the land fhall be for the priests the ministers of the fanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place foi the fanctuary. 5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thoufand of breadth, thall alfo the Levites, the minifters of the houfe, have for themfelves, for a poffeffion for twenty chambers. 6 And ye thall appoint the poffeffion of the city five thousand broad and five and twenty thousand long over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole houfe of Ifrael. 7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one fide and on the other Gde of the ob. lation of the holy portion, and of the poffeffion of the city before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the poffeffion of the city, from the weft de weftward, and from the eaft fide eastward: and the length ball be over against one of the portions, from the weft border unto the east border. 8 In the land fhall be his poffeffion in Ifrael: and my princes fhall no more opprefs my people; and the reft of the land fhall they give to the house of Ifrael according to their tribes. 9 Thus faith the Lord Gon; Let it fuffice you, O princes of Ifrael: remove violence and fpoil, and execute judgment and jultice, take away your exactions from my people, faith the Lord Gop. 10 Ye shall have juft balances, and a just ephah, and a juft bath. II The ephah and the bath fhall be of one meafure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof fhall be after the homer. 12 And the hekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty fhekels, five and twenty fhekels, fifteen thekels, fhall be your manéh. 13 This is the oblation that ye thall offer; the fixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the fixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley. 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, re ball 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, aut of two hundred, out of the fat paftures of Ifrael; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconcilia. tion for them, faith the Lord Gon. 16 All the people of the land thall give this oblation for the prince in Ifrae). 17 And it fhall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the fabbaths, in all fo lemnities of the houfe of Ifrael: he shall prepare the fin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Ifrael. 18 Thus faith the Lord Gon; in the firft The prince's inheritance. month, in the first day of the month, the fhalt take a young bullock without blemish and cleanfe the fanctuary: 19 And the priest thall take of the blood of the fin offering, and put it upon the pots of the houfe, and upon the four corners of the fettle of the altar, and upon the pots of the gate of the inner court. 20 And to thou shalt 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 first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the paffover, a feaft of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 And upon that day fhall the prince pre pare for himself and for all the people of the fand a bullock for a fin offering. 23 And seven days of the feast he shall pre pare a burnt offering to the LORD, feven bul 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, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. 25 In the feventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the feven days, according to the fin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. CHA P. XLVI, 1 Ordinances for the prince in his worship, 9 and for the people. Tus faith court that looketh toward the HUS faith the Lord Gob; The gate of caft thall be shut the fix working days; b on the fabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 2 And the prince fhall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall fland by the poft of the gate, and the priest tall prepare his burnt offering, and his peace of ferings, and he shall worship at the threthold of the gate: then he fhall go forth: but the gate shall not be fhut until the evening. 3 Likewife the people of the land fall 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 fall be fix lambs without blemish, and i 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 fall be a young bullock without blemith, and fix lambs, and a ram: they fhall be without blemish. And he thall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand thall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah, 8 And when the prince fhall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he thall go forth by the way thereof 9 But when the people of the land thall come before the LORD in the folemn feafts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship fhall go out by the way of Ordinances for the people. Chap. xlv!!. the fouth gate; and he that entereth by the way of the fouth gate hall go forth by the way of the north gate: he thall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but thall go forth over agaiaft it. 10 And the prince in the midt of them, when they go in, thall go in; and when they go forth, fhall go forth. 11 And in the fearts 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 ephan. 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 eart, and he fhall prepare his burnt offering 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 firit 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. 13 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 onto any of his fons, the inheritance thereof thall be his fons, it shall be their pofefion 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 thall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his fons for them. 18 Moreover, the prince fhall not take of the people's inheritance by oppreffion, to thrust them out of their poffeffion; but he shall give his fons' inheritance out of his own poffettion: that my people be not feattered every man from his poffeffion. 19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the fite 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 priefs thall boil the trefpafs offering and the fin offering, where they fall 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 Lorners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and Thirty broad: these four cornets 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 Thea faid he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the minifters of the house shall boil the facrifice or he people, The vifan of the waters. CHAP. XLVII. The vifion of the holy waters. The vir tue of them. 13 The borders of the land. door of the house; and, behold, waters Fterward he brought me again unto the iued out from under the threshold of the house caitward: 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 side. 3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he meafured a thonfand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles. 4 Again he 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 meafured 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 paired over. 6 And he faid unto me, Son of man, haft thou feen this? Then he brought me, and caufed me to retura 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 caft country, and go down into the defert, and go into the fei: sebich being brought forth into the fea, the waters thall be healed. 9 And it thall come to pass that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whitherfocver the river fhall come, thall live: and there thall be a very great multitude of fish, because thele waters thall come thither: for they fhall be healed; and every thing thall live whither the river cometh. 10 And it thall come to pass that the fishers. fhall ftand upon it from En-edien unto En-egiain; they all be a place to spread forth nets; their fith fhall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great fea, exceed. ing many. 11 But the miry places thereof and the marthes thereof shall not be healed; they fhall be given to falt. 12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this fide and on that fide, thall grow all trecs for meat, whofe leaf fhall not fade, neither fall the fruit thereof be confumed it fhall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they inded out of the fanctuary: and the fruit thereof thall be for meat, and the lear thereof for me dicine. 13 Thus faith the Lord Gon; This all be the border whereby ye thall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of raci: Jofeph hall have two portions. 14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; concerning the which I litted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: aud this land thall fall unto you for inheritance. 15 And this fall be the border of the land 16 Hamath, Berothan, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damafcus, and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coaft of Hauran. 17 And the border from the fea thall be Ha. zar-enan, the border of Damafcus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north fide. 18 And the eatt fide ye fhall measure from Hauran, and from Damafcus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Ifrael by Jordan, from the border unto the cart fea. And this is the ea fide. 19 And the fouth fide fouthward, from Tamas even to the waters of ftrite in Kadeth, the river to the great fea. And this is the fouth fide fouthward. 20 The wet fide alfo ball be the great fea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the weft fide. I 21 So fhall ye divide this land unto you ac cording to the tribes of Ifrael. 22 And it thall come pafs, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the ftrangers that fojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they fhall be unto you as born in the courtry among the children of Ifrael: they hail have inheritance with you among the tribes of Ifrael. 23 And it fhall come to pafs, that in what tribe the ftranger fojourneth, there shall ye give Him his inheritance, faith the Lord God. CHAP. XLVIII. 1, 23 The portions of the twelve tribes, 8 of the fanctuary, &c. Now there are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the couft of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damafcus north ward, to the conft of Hamath; for there are his fides caft and west, a portion for Dan. a And by the border of Dan, from the caft fide unto the weft fide, a portion for Asher. 3 And by the border of Afher, from the caft fide even unto the weft fide, a portion for Naphtali. 4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the ea fide unto the weft fide, a portion for Manaffeh. And by the border of Manaffeh, from the eaft 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 east 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. ng which ye thall offer of five and twenty Thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as ne of the other parts, from the eaft fide unto the weft fide: and the fanctuary fhall be in the midft of it. The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD ftail be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. 1 And for them, even for the priests, thall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the wet ten thousand in breadth, and toward the caft ten thousand in breadth, and toward The different portionn the fouth five and twenty thousand in lengt and the fanctuary of the LORD thall be in th midit thereof. 11 It fall be for the priests that are fan tified of the fons of Zadck; which have kept my charge, which went not aftray, when the children of Ifrael went aftray, as the Le Vites went aftray. 12 And this oblation of the land that it offered fhall be unto them a thing mot holy by the border of the Levites. 13 And over against the border of the pricis the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length all be five and twenty thoufand, and the breadth ten thou fand. 14 And they fhall not fell of it, neither ex. change, nor alienate the firit fruits of the and for it is holy unto the LORD. 15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thoufand, fhall be a profane place for the city: for dwelling, and for fuburbs: and they thall be in the midit thereof. 16 And thefe ball be the measures thereof the north fide four thousand and five hundred, and the fouth fide four thousand and five hun dred, and on the eaft fide four thousand and five hundred, and the wett fide four thousand and five hundred. 17 And the fuburbs of the city fhall be to ward the north two hundred and fifty, and to ward the fouth two hundred and fitty, and t ward the east two hundred and fifty, and to ward the west two hundred and fifty. 18 And the refidue in length over agairt the oblation of the holy portion ball be ta thousand eastward, and ten thousand wes ward: and it fhall be over against the oblatis of the holy portion; and the increase the of fhall be for food unto them that ferve th city. 19 And they that ferve the city hall ferve it out of all the tribes of Ifrael. 20 All the oblation ball he five and twenty thoufand, by five and twenty thousand: ye fhall offer the holy oblation four fquare, with the poffeffion 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 eaft border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the weft ber der, over against the portions for the print: and it thall be the holy oblation; and the fanctuary of the houfe fall be in the midit thereof. 22 Moreover, from the poffeffion of the Levites, and from the poffeilion of the city, being in the midt of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. 23 As for the rest of the tribes from the ean fide unto the wet fide, Benjamin Bail have a portion, 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the eatt fide unto the west fide, Simeon ball have a portion. 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the caft fide unto the west fide, Iffachar portion, Jebolakim's captivity. Chap. f, fl. The king's meat refufed. 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 Napn. tali. 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day skall be, The LORD is there. I The Book of DANIE L. СНА Р. І. Jehoiaking's captivity. 3 penaz taketh Daniel, Hananich, Mishael, and Azariah: 8 they, refufing the king's portion, do prof per with pulfe and water: 17 their excellency in wifdom. IN N the third year of the reign of Jehniškim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerufalem, and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the veffels 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 ipake 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 skilful in all wifdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding fcience, and fuch as bad ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach, the learning and the tongue of the Chal deans. 5 And the king appointed them a daily provifion of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: fo nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might itand before the king. 6 Now among there were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: 7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Michael, of Methach; 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 himself. 9 Now God had brought Daniel into fa vour and tender love with the prince of the Eunuchs. 10 And the prince of the eunuchs faid anto Daniel, I fear iny lord the king, who math appointed your meat and your ink: 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 feest," 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 flesh than all the children which did eat the por. tion of the king's meat. 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulfe. 17 As for these 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 laid he thould bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. 19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mithael, and Azariah = therefore stood they betore the king. 20 And in all matters of wisdom and un derstanding 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 firit year of king Cyrus. CHAP. II. Nebuchadnezzar forgetteth his dream. 14 Daniel findeth it. 31 The dream, 36 and interpretation thereof. AP Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar |