^31:1Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^31:2Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power? ^31:3See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds. ^31:4It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field. ^31:5In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters. ^31:6In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade. ^31:7So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters. ^31:8No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful. ^31:9I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it. ^31:10For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high, ^31:11I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out. ^31:12And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be. ^31:13All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches: ^31:14In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld. ^31:15This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him. ^31:16I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones. ^31:17And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations ^31:18Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

^32:1And it came about in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^32:2Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty. ^32:3This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net. ^32:4And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will send you out violently into the open field; I will let all the birds of heaven come to rest on you and will make the beasts of all the earth full of you. ^32:5And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood. ^32:6And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you. ^32:7And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. ^32:8All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord. ^32:9And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you. ^32:10And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall. ^32:11For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you. ^32:12I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of the fall of your people; all of them men to be feared among the nations: and they will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all its people will come to destruction. ^32:13And I will put an end to all her beasts which are by the great waters, and they will never again be troubled by the foot of man or by the feet of beasts. ^32:14Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord. ^32:15When I make Egypt an unpeopled waste, cutting off from the land all the things in it; when I send punishment on all those living in it, then it will be clear to them that I am the Lord. ^32:16It is a song of grief, and people will give voice to it, the daughters of the nations will give voice to it, even for Egypt and all her people, says the Lord. ^32:17And in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^32:18Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld. ^32:19Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision, ^32:20Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people. ^32:21The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword. ^32:22There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword: ^32:23Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living. ^32:24There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: ^32:25They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword. ^32:26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living. ^32:27And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living. ^32:28But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword. ^32:29There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld. ^32:30There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld. ^32:31Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord. ^32:32For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

^33:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^33:2Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman: ^33:3If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger; ^33:4Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away. ^33:5On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe. ^33:6But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood. ^33:7So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger. ^33:8When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood. ^33:9But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe. ^33:10And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life? ^33:11Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel? ^33:12And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil. ^33:13When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him. ^33:14And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right; ^33:15If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him. ^33:16Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his. ^33:17But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal. ^33:18When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it. ^33:19And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it. ^33:20And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways. ^33:21Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken. ^33:22Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the evening, before the man who had got away came to me; and he made my mouth open, ready for his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was open and I was no longer without voice. ^33:23And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^33:24Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage. ^33:25For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage? ^33:26You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage? ^33:27This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease. ^33:28And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through. ^33:29Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done, ^33:30And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord. ^33:31And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. ^33:32And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not. ^33:33And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.

^34:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^34:2Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep? ^34:3You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food. ^34:4You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly. ^34:5And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field. ^34:6And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them. ^34:7For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord: ^34:8By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food; ^34:9For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord; ^34:10This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them. ^34:11For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep. ^34:12As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night. ^34:13And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country. ^34:14I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel. ^34:15I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord. ^34:16I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right. ^34:17And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats. ^34:18Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet? ^34:19And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet. ^34:20For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep. ^34:21Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction; ^34:22I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep. ^34:23And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper. ^34:24And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it. ^34:25And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods. ^34:26And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing. ^34:27And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants. ^34:28And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them. ^34:29And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations. ^34:30And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord. ^34:31And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.

^35:1Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^35:2Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it, ^35:3And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder. ^35:4I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^35:5Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end: ^35:6For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you. ^35:7And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings. ^35:8I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword. ^35:9I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^35:10Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there: ^35:11For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me. ^35:12And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage. ^35:13And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears. ^35:14This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you: ^35:15You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

^36:1And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord: ^36:2This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them: ^36:3For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people: ^36:4For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about: ^36:5For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it: ^36:6For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations: ^36:7For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you. ^36:8But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come. ^36:9For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted: ^36:10And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings; ^36:11Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^36:12Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them. ^36:13This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation; ^36:14For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord. ^36:15And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord. ^36:16Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^36:17Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate. ^36:18So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images: ^36:19And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts. ^36:20And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land. ^36:21But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went. ^36:22For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went. ^36:23And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes. ^36:24For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land. ^36:25And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. ^36:26And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh. ^36:27And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them. ^36:28So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God. ^36:29And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food. ^36:30And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food. ^36:31And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel. ^36:32Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel. ^36:33This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places. ^36:34And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by. ^36:35And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled. ^36:36Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it. ^36:37This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock. ^36:38Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

^37:1The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones; ^37:2And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry. ^37:3And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord. ^37:4And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord. ^37:5This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life; ^37:6And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ^37:7So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone. ^37:8And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them. ^37:9And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life. ^37:10And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army. ^37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely. ^37:12For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel. ^37:13And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people. ^37:14And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come to life, and I will give you a rest in your land: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it and have done it, says the Lord. ^37:15And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^37:16And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company: ^37:17Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand. ^37:18And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us? ^37:19Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand. ^37:20And the sticks with your writing on them will be in your hand before their eyes. ^37:21And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am taking the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will get them together on every side, and take them into their land: ^37:22And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms: ^37:23And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God. ^37:24And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them. ^37:25And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever. ^37:26And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever. ^37:27And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people. ^37:28And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

^38:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ^38:2Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a prophet against him, ^38:3And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: ^38:4And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords: ^38:5Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress: ^38:6Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you. ^38:7Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders. ^38:8After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger. ^38:9And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you. ^38:10This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design: ^38:11And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors: ^38:12To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth. ^38:13Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth? ^38:14For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them? ^38:15And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army: ^38:16And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes. ^38:17This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them. ^38:18And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling. ^38:19For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel; ^38:20So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth. ^38:21And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother. ^38:22And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning. ^38:23And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

^39:1And you, son of man, be a prophet against Gog, and say, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: ^39:2And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel: ^39:3And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand. ^39:4On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food. ^39:5You will come down in the open field: for I have said it, says the Lord. ^39:6And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are living in the sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ^39:7And I will make clear my holy name among my people Israel; I will no longer let my holy name be made unclean: and the nations will be certain that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. ^39:8See, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord; this is the day of which I have given word. ^39:9And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them: ^39:10And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord. ^39:11And it will come about in those days, that I will give to Gog a last resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of Abarim on the east of the sea: and those who go through will be stopped: and there Gog and all his people will be put to rest, and the place will be named, The valley of Hamon-gog. ^39:12And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean. ^39:13And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord. ^39:14And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search. ^39:15And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man's bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog. ^39:16And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth. So they will make the land clean. ^39:17And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink. ^39:18The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan. ^39:19You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you. ^39:20At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord. ^39:21And I will put my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my punishments which I have put into effect, and my hand which I have put on them. ^39:22So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future. ^39:23And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword. ^39:24In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them. ^39:25For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name. ^39:26And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them; ^39:27When I have taken them back from among the peoples and got them together out of the lands of their haters, and have made myself holy in them before the eyes of a great number of nations. ^39:28And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer. ^39:29And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.

^40:1In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there. ^40:2In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me. ^40:3He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway. ^40:4And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel. ^40:5And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod. ^40:6Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide. ^40:7And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod. ^40:8And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside, ^40:9Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside. ^40:10And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size. ^40:11And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits; ^40:12And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that. ^40:13And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door. ^40:14And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about. ^40:15And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits. ^40:16And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees. ^40:17Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor. ^40:18And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor. ^40:19Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north, ^40:20And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was. ^40:21And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:22And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside. ^40:23And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits. ^40:24And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures. ^40:25And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:26And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights. ^40:27And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits. ^40:28Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures; ^40:29And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures: ^40:30And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:31The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it. ^40:32And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures; ^40:33And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:34And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it. ^40:35And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures; ^40:36Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:37Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it. ^40:38And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed. ^40:39And in the covered way of the doorway there were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which the burned offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error were put to death: ^40:40On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the opening of the doorway, were two tables. ^40:41There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings. ^40:42And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings. ^40:43And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings. ^40:44And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north. ^40:45And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house. ^40:46And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house. ^40:47And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house. ^40:48Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other. ^40:49The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.

^41:1And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other. ^41:2And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. ^41:3And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other. ^41:4And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. ^41:5Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide. ^41:6And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house. ^41:7The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor. ^41:8And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high. ^41:9The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house. ^41:10And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house. ^41:11And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round. ^41:12And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long. ^41:13And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long; ^41:14And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide. ^41:15And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in; ^41:16And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows; ^41:17And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside. ^41:18And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces; ^41:19So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house. ^41:20From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall. ^41:21... ^41:22The altar was made of wood, and was three cubits high and two cubits long; it had angles, and its base and sides were of wood; and he said to me, This is the table which is before the Lord. ^41:23The Temple had two doors. ^41:24And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other. ^41:25And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside. ^41:26And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...

^42:1And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north. ^42:2On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, ^42:3Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor. ^42:4And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north. ^42:5And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms. ^42:6For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level. ^42:7And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long. ^42:8For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits. ^42:9And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall. ^42:10(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms. ^42:11And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors. ^42:12And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in. ^42:13And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy. ^42:14When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people. ^42:15And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round. ^42:16He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:17And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:18And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:19And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round. ^42:20He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

^43:1And he took me to the doorway looking to the east: ^43:2And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory. ^43:3And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came for the destruction of the town: and like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face. ^43:4And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the doorway looking to the east. ^43:5And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner square; and I saw that the house was full of the glory of the Lord. ^43:6And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side. ^43:7And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings; ^43:8By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them. ^43:9Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever. ^43:10You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image. ^43:11And they will be shamed by what they have done; so give them the knowledge of the form of the house and its structure, and the ways out of it and into it, and all its laws and its rules, writing it down for them: so that they may keep all its laws and do them. ^43:12This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house. ^43:13And these are the measures of the altar in cubits: (the cubit being a cubit and a hand's measure;) its hollow base is a cubit high and a cubit wide, and it has an overhanging edge as wide as a hand-stretch all round it: ^43:14And from the base on the earth level to the lower shelf, the altar is two cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the smaller shelf to the greater shelf it is four cubits high and a cubit wide. ^43:15And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up from the fireplace are the horns, a cubit high. ^43:16And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides. ^43:17And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east. ^43:18And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood. ^43:19You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering. ^43:20You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin. ^43:21And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place. ^43:22And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox. ^43:23And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark. ^43:24And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord. ^43:25Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them. ^43:26For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy. ^43:27And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.

^44:1And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut. ^44:2And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has gone in by it; and it is to be shut. ^44:3But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way. ^44:4And he took me to the north doorway in front of the house; and, looking, I saw that the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord; and I went down on my face. ^44:5And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the holy place. ^44:6And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done, ^44:7To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken. ^44:8And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place. ^44:9For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place. ^44:10But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them. ^44:11But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants. ^44:12Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them. ^44:13And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done. ^44:14But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it. ^44:15But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord; ^44:16They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house. ^44:17And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool on them while they are doing my work in the doorway of the inner square and inside the house. ^44:18They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat. ^44:19And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes. ^44:20They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut. ^44:21The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square. ^44:22And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. ^44:23And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean. ^44:24In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy. ^44:25They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean. ^44:26And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him. ^44:27And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord. ^44:28And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property. ^44:29Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs. ^44:30And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house. ^44:31The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.

^45:1And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy. ^45:2Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it. ^45:3And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy. ^45:4This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle. ^45:5A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places. ^45:6And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel. ^45:7And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land. ^45:8And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes. ^45:9This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord. ^45:10Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath. ^45:11The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer. ^45:12And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels ^45:13This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley; ^45:14And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor; ^45:15And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord. ^45:16All the people are to give this offering to the ruler. ^45:17And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel. ^45:18This is what the Lord has said: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young ox without any mark on him, and you are to make the holy place clean. ^45:19And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin-offering and put it on the uprights at the sides of the doors of the house, and on the four angles of the shelf of the altar, and on the sides of the doorway of the inner square. ^45:20And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin. ^45:21In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food. ^45:22And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering. ^45:23And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a burned offering to the Lord, seven oxen and seven sheep without any mark on them, every day for seven days; and a he-goat every day for a sin-offering. ^45:24And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every ox and an ephah for every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah. ^45:25In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he is to give the same for seven days; the sin-offering, the burned offering, the meal offering, and the oil as before.

^46:1This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open. ^46:2And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening. ^46:3And the people of the land are to give worship at the door of that doorway before the Lord on the Sabbaths and at the new moons. ^46:4And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the ruler on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without a mark on them and a male sheep without a mark; ^46:5And the meal offering is to be an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:6And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark: ^46:7And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox and an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:8And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the covered way of the doorway, and he is to go out by the same way. ^46:9But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the fixed feasts, he who comes in by the north doorway to give worship is to go out by the south doorway; and he who comes in by the south doorway is to go out by the north doorway: he is not to come back by the doorway through which he went in, but is to go straight before him. ^46:10And the ruler, when they come in, is to come among them, and is to go out when they go out. ^46:11At the feasts and the fixed meetings the meal offerings are to be an ephah for an ox, and an ephah for a male sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:12And when the ruler makes a free offering, a burned offering or a peace-offering freely given to the Lord, the doorway looking to the east is to be made open for him, and he is to make his burned offering and his peace-offerings as he does on the Sabbath day: and he will go out; and the door will be shut after he has gone out. ^46:13And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark on it for a burned offering to the Lord every day: morning by morning you are to give it. ^46:14And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order. ^46:15And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a burned offering at all times. ^46:16This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage. ^46:17And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs. ^46:18And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property. ^46:19And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west. ^46:20And he said to me, This is the place where the offering for error and the sin-offering are to be cooked in water by the priests, and where the meal offering is to be cooked in the oven; so that they may not be taken out into the outer square to make the people holy. ^46:21And he took me out into the outer square and made me go by the four angles of the square; and I saw that in every angle of the open square there was a space shut in. ^46:22In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size. ^46:23And there was a line of wall all round inside them, round all four, and boiling-places were made under it all round about. ^46:24And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where the offering of the people is cooked by the servants of the house.

^47:1And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar. ^47:2And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side. ^47:3And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet. ^47:4And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body. ^47:5Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through. ^47:6And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river's edge. ^47:7And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that. ^47:8And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet. ^47:9And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life. ^47:10And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number. ^47:11The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt. ^47:12And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill. ^47:13This is what the Lord has said: These are the limits by which you will take up your heritage in the land among the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph is to have two parts. ^47:14And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage. ^47:15And this is to be the limit of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea, in the direction of Hethlon, as far as the way into Hamath; ^47:16To Zedad, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the limit of Damascus and the limit of Hazar-hatticon, which is on the limit of Hauran. ^47:17And this is the limit from the sea in the direction of Hazar-enon; and the limit of Damascus is to the north, and on the north is the limit of Hamath. This is the north side. ^47:18And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side. ^47:19And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south. ^47:20And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side. ^47:21You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe. ^47:22And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel. ^47:23In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

^48:1Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part. ^48:2And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one part. ^48:3And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part. ^48:4And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part. ^48:5And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part. ^48:6And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part. ^48:7And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part. ^48:8And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it. ^48:9The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide. ^48:10And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering is to be twenty-five thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide to the west, ten thousand wide to the east and twenty-five thousand long to the south; and the holy place of the Lord will be in the middle of it. ^48:11For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did, ^48:12Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites. ^48:13And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide. ^48:14And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord. ^48:15And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it. ^48:16And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred. ^48:17And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty. ^48:18And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town. ^48:19It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel. ^48:20The size of the offering all together is to be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy offering a square, together with the property of the town. ^48:21And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it. ^48:22And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince. ^48:23And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side: Benjamin, one part. ^48:24And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part. ^48:25And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part. ^48:26And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one part. ^48:27And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part. ^48:28And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea. ^48:29This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord. ^48:30And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure; ^48:31And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi; ^48:32And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan; ^48:33And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun; ^48:34At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali. ^48:35It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

Daniel

^1:1In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces. ^1:2And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god. ^1:3And the king gave orders to Ashpenaz, the captain of his unsexed servants, to take in some of the children of Israel, certain of the king's family, and those of high birth; ^1:4Young men who were strong and healthy, good-looking, and trained in all wisdom, having a good education and much knowledge, and able to take positions in the king's house; and to have them trained in the writing and language of the Chaldaeans. ^1:5And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king's table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king. ^1:6And among these there were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. ^1:7And the captain of the unsexed servants gave them names; to Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar, to Hananiah the name of Shadrach, to Mishael the name of Meshach, and to Azariah the name of Abed-nego. ^1:8And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean. ^1:9And God put into the heart of the captain of the unsexed servants kind feelings and pity for Daniel. ^1:10And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king. ^1:11Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: ^1:12Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink. ^1:13Then take a look at our faces and the faces of the young men who have food from the king's table; and, having seen them, do to your servants as it seems right to you. ^1:14So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days. ^1:15And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king's table. ^1:16So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain. ^1:17Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams. ^1:18Now at the end of the time fixed by the king for them to go in, the captain of the unsexed servants took them in to Nebuchadnezzar. ^1:19And the king had talk with them; and among them all there was no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they were given places before the king. ^1:20And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom. ^1:21And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.