RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

cubits, and the width one cubit.
15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar
and upward shall be four horns.
16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve wide,
square in the four squares of it.
17 And the edge shall be fourteen cubits long and
fourteen wide in the four squares of it; and the border
about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be
a cubit around; and its stairs shall face east.
18 And He said to me, Ben-adam, this says the Master
vuvh; These are the mishpatim of the altar in the day
when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and
to sprinkle dahm on it.
19 And you shall give to the Kohanim the Lewiym that are
of the zera of Tzadok, who approach Me, to serve to Me,
says the Master vuvh, a young bull for a sin offering.
20 And you shall take of the dahm of it, and put it on the
four horns of it, and on the four corners of the edge, and
upon the border all around: in this manner shall you
cleanse and purge it.
21 You shall take the bull also of the sin offering, and he
shall burn it in the appointed place of the Bayit, outside
the Kadosh-Place.
22 And on the second day you shall offer a male goat
without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse
the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bull.
23 When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall
offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the
flock without blemish.
24 And you shall offer them before vuvh, and the
Kohanim shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer
them up for a burnt offering to vuvh.
25 Seven days shall you 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.
26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and
they shall consecrate themselves.
27 And when these days are over, it shall be, that upon
the eighth day, and thereafter, the Kohanim shall make
your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your shalom
offerings; and I will accept you, says the Master vuvh.
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Then He brought me back by the derech of the outer
gate of the Kadosh-Place that looks toward the east; and it
was closed.
2 Then said vuvh to me; This gate shall be closed, it shall
not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because
vuvh, the Elohim of Yisrael, has entered 2646 in by it,
therefore it shall be closed. 2647
3 It is for the Nasi; 2648 the Nasi, He shall sit in it to eat
lechem before vuvh; He shall enter by the path of the
porch of that gate, and shall go out by the path of the
same. 2649
4 Then He brought me along the derech of the north gate
before the Bayit: and I looked, and, see, the tifereth of
vuvh filled the Bayit of vuvh: and I fell upon my face.
5 And vuvh said to me, Ben-adam, mark well, and see
with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to
you concerning all the mishpatim of the Bayit of vuvh,
and all the Torot of it; and mark well the entering in of
the Bayit, with every going out of the Kadosh-Place.
6 And you shall say to the rebellious, even to Beit Yisrael,
This says the Master vuvh; O Beit Yisrael, enough of all
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your abominations,
7 In that you have brought into My Kadosh-Place
foreigners, uncircumcised in lev, and uncircumcised in
flesh, 2650 to be in My Kadosh-Place, to defile it, even My
Bayit, when you offer My lechem, the fat and the dahm,
and they have broken My brit because of all your
abominations.
8 And you have not kept the charge of My kadosh things:
but you have set others to guard My charge in My
Kadosh-Place in your stead.
9 This says the Master vuvh; No ger, 2651 uncircumcised
in lev, nor uncircumcised in flesh, 2652 shall enter into
My Kadosh-Place, even any son of a foreigner that is
among the children of Yisrael.
10 And the Lewiym that have gone far away from Me,
when Yisrael went astray, who also went astray away
from Me after their idols; even they shall bear their
iniquity.
11 Yet they were avadim in My Kadosh-Place, having
charge at the gates of the Bayit, and serving the Bayit:
they did slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice of the
people, and they did stand before them to serve them.
12 But because they ministered to them in front of their
idols, and caused Beit Yisrael to fall into iniquity;
therefore have I lifted up My hand against them, says the
Master vuvh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near to Me, to perform the
office of a kohen to Me, nor to come near to any of My
kadosh things, in the Most Kadosh-Place: but they shall
bear their shame, and their abominations which they have
committed.
14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the
Bayit, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be
done in it. 2653
15 But the Kohanim the Lewiym, the sons of Tzadok, that
kept the charge of My Kadosh-Place when the children of
Yisrael went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me
to serve Me, and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me
the fat and the dahm, says the Master vuvh: 2654
16 They shall enter into My Kadosh-Place, and they shall
come near to My shulchan, to serve Me, and they shall
keep My charge.
17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at
the gates of the inner courtyard, they shall be clothed
with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them,
while they serve in the gates of the inner courtyard, and
inside the Bayit.
18 They shall have linen head coverings upon their heads,
and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall
not dress themselves with any thing that causes sweat.
19 And when they go out into the outer courtyard, even
into the outer courtyard to the people, they shall put off
their garments in which they ministered, and lay them in
the kadosh rooms, and they shall put on other garments;
and they shall not mingle among the people with their
garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their
hair to grow long; they shall only trim their hair.
21 Neither shall any kohen drink wine, when they enter
into the inner courtyard.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, or her
that is divorced: but they shall take virgins of the zera of
Beit Yisrael, 2655 or a widow that had a kohen before. 2656