I 12 Now, when the prince shall
prepare a voluntary burnt-offering
or peace-offerings voluntarily unto
the LORD, one shall then open him
the gate that looketh toward the 21 Then he brought me forth into
east, and he shall prepare his burnt- the outer court, and caused me to
offering and his peace-offerings, as pass by the four corners of the court;
he did on the sabbath day; then he and behold, in every corner of the
shall go forth; and after his going court there was a court.
forth one shall shut the gate.

there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad; these four corners were of one measure.

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.

country, and go down into the de-
sert, and go into the sea which be-
ing brought forth into the sea, the
waters shall be healed.
4 9 And it shall come to pass, that
every thing that liveth, which mov-
eth, whithersoever the rivers shall
come, shall live: and there shall be
a very great multitude of fish, be-
cause these waters shall come thi-
ther: for they shall be healed: and

24 Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. every thing shall live whither the CHAP. XLVII. river cometh.

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again unto the door of the the fishers shall stand upon it from house; and behold, waters issued En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they out from under the threshold of the shall be a place to spread forth nets; house eastward for the forefront of their fish shall be according to their the house stood toward the east, and kinds, as the fish of the great sea, the waters came down from under exceeding many. from the right side of the house, at A 11 But the miry places thereof the south side 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.

and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. 7 12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, Deither shall the fruit thereof be

A 3 And when the man that had consumed: it shall bring forth new the line in his band, went forth east- fruit according to his months, beward, he measured a thousand cu- cause their waters they issued out of bits, and he brought me through the the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof waters; the waters were to the ankles. shall be for meat, and the leaf there4 Again he measured a thousand, of for medicine." and brought me through the waters; 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; the waters were to the knees. Again This shall be the border, whereby ye he measured a thousand, and brought shall inherit the land according to me through; the waters were to the the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph loins. shall have two portions.

5 Afterward he measured a thou14 And ye shall inherit it, one sand; and it was a river that I could as well as another: concerning the not pass over for the waters were which I lifted up my hand to give it risen, waters to swim in, a river unto your fathers; and this land shall that could not be passed over. fall unto you for inheritance. v6 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of g 15 And this shall be the border of man, hast thou seen this? Then he the land toward the north side, from brought me, and caused me to re- the great sea, the way of Hethlon, turn to the brink of the river.

77 Now, when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other

as men go to Zedad;
g 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim,
which is between the border of Da-
mascus and the border of Hamaih
Hazar-hatticon, which is by the
coast of Hauran.

8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east g 17 And the border from the sea

shall be Hazar-enan, the border of seh, from the east side unto the west Damascus, and the north northward, side, a portion for Ephraim.

and the border of Hamath. And
this is the north side.

g 18 And the east side ye shall
measure from Hauran, and from
Damascus, and from Gilead, and
from the land of Israel by Jordan,
from the border unto the east sea.
And this is the east side.
g19 And the south side southward,
from Tamar even to the waters of
strife in Kadesh, the river to the
great sea. And this is the south

side southward.

g 20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.

6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.

7 And by the border of Reuben,
from the east side unto the west side,
a portion for Judah.

d 8 And by the border of Judab,
from the east side unto the west side,
shall be the offering which ye shall
offer of five and twenty thousand
reeds in breadth, and in length as
one of the other parts, from the cast
side unto the west side: and the
sanctuary shall be in the midst of
it.

9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and 21 So shall ye divide this land twenty thousand in length, and of unto you according to the tribes of ten thousand in breadth. Israel.

d 10 And for them, even for the d 22 ¶ And it shall come to pass, priests, shall be this holy oblation: that ye shall divide it by lot for an in-toward the north five and twenty heritance unto you, and to the stran- thousand in length, and toward the gers that sojourn among you, which west ten thousand in breadth, and shall beget children among you: and toward the east ten thousand in they shall be unto you as born in the breadth, and toward the south five country among the children of Is- and twenty thousand in length; and rael; they shall have inheritance the sanctuary of the LORD shall be with you among the tribes of Israel. in the midst thereof.

23 And it shall come to pass, that d 11 It shall be for the priests that in what tribe the stranger sojourn-are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; eth, there shall ye give him his in-which have kept my charge, which heritance, saith the Lord GOD. went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites

CHAP. XLVIII.

TOW these are the names of went astray.

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the tribes. From the north 12 And this oblation of the land end to the coast of the way of Heth-that is offered shall be unto them a lon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-thing most holy by the border of the enan, the border of Damascus north- Levites. ward, to the coast of Hamath; (ford 13 And over against the border of these are his sides east and west;) a portion for Dan,

2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.

3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.

4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.

5 And by the border of Manas

the priests, the Levites shall have five
and twenty thousand in length, and
ten thousand in breadth all the
length shall be five and twenty thou-
sand, and the breadth ten thousand.
d 14 And they shall not sell of it,
neither exchange, nor alienate the
first fruits of the land for it is holy
unto the LORD.

15 And the five thousand, that
are left in the breadth over against
the five and twenty thousand, shall
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be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs, and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thou sand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.

18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.

19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel,

20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.

23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side Benjamin shall have a portion.

24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side," Issachar a portion.

26 And by the border of Issachar/ from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.

27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.

g 28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.

30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

d 21 T And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on 32 And at the east side four thouthe other of the holy oblation, and sand and five hundred and three of the possession of the city, over gates and one gate of Joseph, one against the five and twenty thou- gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. sand of the oblation toward the east 33 And at the south side four thouborder, and westward over against sand and five hundred measures: the five and twenty thousand toward and three gates; one gate of Sithe west border, over against the meon, one gate of Issachar, one gate portions for the prince and it shall of Zebulun. be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates one gate of Gad, one gate 22 Moreover, from the possession of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. of the Levites, and from the posses-n 35 It was round about eighteen sion of the city, being in the midst of thousand measures: and the name of that which is the prince's, between the city from that day shall be, The the border of Judah and the border LORD is there.

of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

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The Book of DANIEL.

8 IN the third year of the reign king, who bath appointed your meat of Jehoiakim king of Judah and your drink: for why should he came Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby-see your faces worse liking than the lon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. children which are of your sort ? f2 And the LORD gave Jehoiakim then shall ye make me endanger my king of Judah into his hand, with head to the king. part of the vessels of the house of God which he carried into the land of Shinah to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.

8 But Daniel purposed in his 19 And the king communed with heart that he would act defile himself them and among them all was found with the portion of the king's meat, none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishnor with the wine which he drank ael, and Azariah: therefore, stood therefore, he requested of the prince they before the king. of the eunuchs that he might not deGile himself.