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Bible Reading for September 24

Ezekiel 43
[1] Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
[2] And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the
east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined
with his glory.
[3] And 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
upon my face.
[4] And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east.
[5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. [6] And I heard him
speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
[7] And he said unto me, Son of man, 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 for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more
defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the
carcases of their kings in their high places.
[8] In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by
my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy
name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have
consumed them in mine anger.
[9] Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings,
far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. [10] Thou son
of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of
their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. [11] And if they be
ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and
the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in
thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all
the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight,
that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof,
and do them.
[12] This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole
limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of
the house.
[13] And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is
a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the
breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about
shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. [14] And
from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two
cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the
greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth 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 broad, square in the
four squares thereof.
[17] And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the
four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and
the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward
the east.
[18] And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith 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. [19] And thou shalt
give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which
approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock
for a sin offering.
[20] And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns
of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round
about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. [21] Thou shalt take the
bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed
place of the house, without the sanctuary. [22] And on the second day thou
shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they
shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
[23] When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young
bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. [24]
And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt
upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
[25] Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering:
they shall also prepare a young bullock, 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 expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth
day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the
altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 44
[1] Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary
which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. [2] Then said the LORD unto
me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter
in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it,
therefore it shall be shut. [3] It is for the prince; the prince, he shall
sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the
porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
[4] Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I
looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD:
and I fell upon my face.
[5] And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine
eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say 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 house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
[6] And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your
abominations,
[7] In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in
heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it,
even my house, 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 set keepers of my charge
in my sanctuary for yourselves. [9] Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger,
uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my
sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
[10] And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went
astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even
bear their iniquity.
[11] Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the
gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt
offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them
to minister unto them.
[12] Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the
house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand
against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. [13]
And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me,
nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy 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 house, for all the
service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. [15] But the
priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my
sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come
near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer
unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD: [16] They shall enter
into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto
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 court, they shall be clothed
with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister
in the gates of the inner court, and within.
[18] They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen
breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing
that causeth sweat.
[19] And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court
to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered,
and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments;
and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments. [20] Neither
shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they
shall only poll their heads. [21] Neither shall any priest drink wine, when
they enter into the inner court.
[22] Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put
away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a
widow that had a priest before.
[23] And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and
profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. [24]
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it
according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in
all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. [25] And they shall
come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother,
or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no
husband, they may defile themselves. [26] And after he is cleansed, they
shall reckon unto him seven days. [27] And in the day that he goeth into
the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall
offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
[28] And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance:
and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession. [29]
They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. [30] And the
first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of
every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give
unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to
rest in thine house.
[31] The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or
torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

Ezekiel 45
[1] Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye
shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the
length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the
breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders
thereof round about. [2] Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five
hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and
fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
[3] And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary
and the most holy place.
[4] The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of
the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it
shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. [5]
And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of
breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for
themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers. [6] And ye shall appoint
the possession 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 house of Israel. [7] And a portion shall be for the prince on
the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and
of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and
before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from
the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the
portions, from the west border unto the east border.
[8] In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no
more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the
house of Israel according to their tribes. [9] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let
it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute
judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the
Lord GOD. [10] Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just
bath. I [11] The ephah and the bath shall 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 shekel
shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen
shekels, shall be your manneh. [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 sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
[14] Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall 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 hundred, out of the fat
pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for
peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD. [16]
All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in
Israel.
[17] And it shall 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 sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare
the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the
peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. [18] Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou
shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
[19] And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it
upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the
altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. [20] And so thou
shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for
him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. [21] In the first
month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a
feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. [22] And upon that
day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land
a bullock for a sin offering. [23] And seven days of the feast he shall
prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without
blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin
offering. [24] And he shall 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 seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like
in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to
the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to
the oil.

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