^32:1In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^32:2‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.” ^32:3Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they will bring you up in my net. ^32:4I will leave you on the land. I will cast you out on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you. I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. ^32:5I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. ^32:6I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood, even to the mountains. The watercourses will be full of you. ^32:7When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light. ^32:8I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^32:9“I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. ^32:10Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.” ^32:11For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you. ^32:12I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty. They are all the ruthless of the nations. They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing, and all its multitude will be destroyed. ^32:13I will destroy also all its animals from beside many waters. The foot of man won’t trouble them any more, nor will the hoofs of animals trouble them. ^32:14Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^32:15“When I make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I strike all those who dwell therein, then they will know that I am Yahweh. ^32:16“‘“This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’” ^32:17Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^32:18“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. ^32:19Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. ^32:20They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes. ^32:21The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword. ^32:22“Asshur is there with all her company. Her graves are all around her. All of them slain, fallen by the sword; ^32:23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. ^32:24“There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. ^32:25They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain. ^32:26“There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living. ^32:27They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. ^32:28“But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword. ^32:29“There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. ^32:30“There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. ^32:31“Pharaoh will see them, and will be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^32:32“For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.

^33:1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^33:2“Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman; ^33:3if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people; ^33:4then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. ^33:5He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul. ^33:6But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’ ^33:7“So you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me. ^33:8When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand. ^33:9Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. ^33:10“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?”’ ^33:11Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’ ^33:12“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins. ^33:13When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed. ^33:14Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; ^33:15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die. ^33:16None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live. ^33:17“‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair. ^33:18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein. ^33:19When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live thereby. ^33:20Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’” ^33:21In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!” ^33:22Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute. ^33:23Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^33:24“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’ ^33:25Therefore tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land? ^33:26You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’ ^33:27“You shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he who is in the open field to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence. ^33:28I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through. ^33:29Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’ ^33:30“As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’ ^33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. ^33:32Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them. ^33:33“When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

^34:1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^34:2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? ^34:3You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep. ^34:4You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor. ^34:5They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. ^34:6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.” ^34:7“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word: ^34:8“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.” ^34:9Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word: ^34:10Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.” ^34:11“‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. ^34:12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. ^34:13I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. ^34:14I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. ^34:15I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^34:16“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’ ^34:17“As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. ^34:18Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet? ^34:19As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’ ^34:20“Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ^34:21Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; ^34:22therefore will I save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. ^34:23I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. ^34:24I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it. ^34:25“‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. ^34:26I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing. ^34:27The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them. ^34:28They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid. ^34:29I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more. ^34:30They will know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh. ^34:31You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

^35:1Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^35:2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, ^35:3and tell it, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. ^35:4I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. ^35:5“‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; ^35:6therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you. ^35:7Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. ^35:8I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses. ^35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. ^35:10“‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it;’ whereas Yahweh was there: ^35:11therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. ^35:12You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.’ ^35:13You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.” ^35:14Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. ^35:15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

^36:1You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word. ^36:2Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!”’ ^36:3therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;” ^36:4therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; ^36:5therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.”’ ^36:6Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.” ^36:7Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’ ^36:8“‘“But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. ^36:9For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown. ^36:10I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built. ^36:11I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. ^36:12Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.” ^36:13“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’ ^36:14therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^36:15“I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’” ^36:16Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^36:17“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. ^36:18Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. ^36:19I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds. ^36:20When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’ ^36:21But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. ^36:22“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. ^36:23I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes. ^36:24“‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. ^36:25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols. ^36:26I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. ^36:27I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them. ^36:28You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God. ^36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. ^36:30I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. ^36:31“‘“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. ^36:32I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.” ^36:33“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built. ^36:34The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. ^36:35They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’ ^36:36Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.” ^36:37“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. ^36:38As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

^37:1Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. ^37:2He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. ^37:3He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.” ^37:4Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word. ^37:5Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live. ^37:6I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’” ^37:7So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone. ^37:8I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. ^37:9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’” ^37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army. ^37:11Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’ ^37:12Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. ^37:13You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. ^37:14I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’” ^37:15Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, ^37:16“You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’ ^37:17Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. ^37:18“When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’ ^37:19tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand. ^37:20The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’ ^37:21Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. ^37:22I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. ^37:23They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God. ^37:24“‘“My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. ^37:25They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince for ever. ^37:26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more. ^37:27My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ^37:28The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’”

^38:1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ^38:2“Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, ^38:3and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. ^38:4I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; ^38:5Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ^38:6Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you. ^38:7“‘“Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. ^38:8After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them. ^38:9You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.” ^38:10“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. ^38:11You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, ^38:12to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’ ^38:13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’ ^38:14“Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it? ^38:15You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. ^38:16You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.” ^38:17“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them? ^38:18It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that my wrath will come up into my nostrils. ^38:19For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel; ^38:20so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground. ^38:21I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother. ^38:22I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. ^38:23I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’

^39:1“You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. ^39:2I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you onto the mountains of Israel. ^39:3I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. ^39:4You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. ^39:5You will fall on the open field; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^39:6“I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. ^39:7“‘“I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. ^39:8Behold, it comes, and it will be done,” says the Lord Yahweh. “This is the day about which I have spoken. ^39:9“‘“Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years; ^39:10so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^39:11“‘“It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there; and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’. ^39:12“‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land. ^39:13Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^39:14“‘“They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search. ^39:15Those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then will he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. ^39:16Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus will they cleanse the land.”’ ^39:17“You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood. ^39:18You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. ^39:19You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. ^39:20You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ^39:21“I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. ^39:22So the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward. ^39:23The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. ^39:24I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them. ^39:25“Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name. ^39:26They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid, ^39:27when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. ^39:28They will know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more. ^39:29I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

^40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me there. ^40:2In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south. ^40:3He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. ^40:4The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.” ^40:5Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. ^40:6Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide. ^40:7Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. ^40:8He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. ^40:9Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house. ^40:10The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side. ^40:11He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; ^40:12and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. ^40:13He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubit, door against door. ^40:14He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate. ^40:15From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. ^40:16There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post. ^40:17Then brought he me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement. ^40:18The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. ^40:19Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north. ^40:20He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north. ^40:21The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. ^40:22Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces toward the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them. ^40:23There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate. ^40:24He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements. ^40:25There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. ^40:26There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts. ^40:27There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south. ^40:28Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements; ^40:29with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:30There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits wide. ^40:31Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps. ^40:32He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements; ^40:33with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. ^40:34Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps. ^40:35He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements; ^40:36its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. ^40:37Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps. ^40:38A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there. ^40:39In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. ^40:40On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. ^40:41Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices. ^40:42There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them. ^40:43The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables. ^40:44Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced toward the south. One at the side of the east gate faced toward the north. ^40:45He said to me, “This room, which faces toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house. ^40:46The room which faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.” ^40:47He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house. ^40:48Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. ^40:49The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

^41:1He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent. ^41:2The width of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits. ^41:3Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. ^41:4He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.” ^41:5Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. ^41:6The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house. ^41:7The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level. ^41:8I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. ^41:9The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house. ^41:10Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side. ^41:11The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around. ^41:12The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. ^41:13So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; ^41:14also the width of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits. ^41:15He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court ^41:16the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), ^41:17to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. ^41:18It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; ^41:19so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around. ^41:20Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this. ^41:21As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple. ^41:22The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.” ^41:23The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. ^41:24The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other. ^41:25There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. ^41:26There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the house and the thresholds were arranged.

^42:1Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north. ^42:2Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits. ^42:3Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor. ^42:4Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. ^42:5Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building. ^42:6For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. ^42:7The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. ^42:8For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits. ^42:9From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. ^42:10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms. ^42:11The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. ^42:12According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them. ^42:13Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. ^42:14When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which is for the people.” ^42:15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces toward the east, and measured it all around. ^42:16He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around. ^42:17He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around. ^42:18He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. ^42:19He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. ^42:20He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

^43:1Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east. ^43:2Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth was illuminated with his glory. ^43:3It 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 on my face. ^43:4Yahweh’s glory came into the house by the way of the gate which faces toward the east. ^43:5The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house. ^43:6I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me. ^43:7He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places; ^43:8in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Ttherefore I have consumed them in my anger. ^43:9Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever. ^43:10“You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. ^43:11If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. ^43:12“This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. ^43:13“These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. ^43:14From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the width a cubit. ^43:15The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. ^43:16The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides. ^43:17The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.” ^43:18He said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it. ^43:19You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering. ^43:20You shall take of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way. ^43:21You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary. ^43:22“On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull. ^43:23When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect. ^43:24You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh. ^43:25“Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect. ^43:26Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it. ^43:27When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

^44:1Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut. ^44:2Yahweh said to me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. ^44:3As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.” ^44:4Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face. ^44:5Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. ^44:6You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations, ^44:7in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. ^44:8You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.” ^44:9Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. ^44:10“‘“But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity. ^44:11Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. ^44:12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity. ^44:13They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. ^44:14Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein. ^44:15“‘“But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^44:16“They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction. ^44:17“‘“It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. ^44:18They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat. ^44:19When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments. ^44:20“‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads. ^44:21None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court. ^44:22They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. ^44:23They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. ^44:24“‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy. ^44:25“‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. ^44:26After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. ^44:27In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^44:28“‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. ^44:29They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. ^44:30The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. ^44:31The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.

^45:1“‘“Moreover, when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the width shall be ten thousand. It shall be holy in all its border all around. ^45:2Of this there shall be a five hundred by five hundred square for the holy place; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around. ^45:3Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. ^45:4It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh. It shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ^45:5Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms. ^45:6“‘“You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. ^45:7“‘“What is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border. ^45:8In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.” ^45:9“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^45:10“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. ^45:11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer. ^45:12The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. ^45:13“‘“This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley; ^45:14and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;) ^45:15and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh. ^45:16“All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel. ^45:17It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.” ^45:18“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. ^45:19The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court. ^45:20So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house. ^45:21“‘“In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. ^45:22On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. ^45:23The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. ^45:24He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^45:25“‘“In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he shall do like like that for seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.”

^46:1“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. ^46:2The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. ^46:3The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. ^46:4The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect; ^46:5and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:6On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect. ^46:7He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:8When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way. ^46:9“‘“But when the people of the land come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him. ^46:10The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out. ^46:11“‘“In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ^46:12When the prince prepares a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate. ^46:13“‘“You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it. ^46:14You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance. ^46:15Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.” ^46:16“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance. ^46:17But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. ^46:18Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.”’” ^46:19Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward. ^46:20He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.” ^46:21Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. ^46:22In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size. ^46:23There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around. ^46:24Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”

^47:1He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar. ^47:2Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, waters ran out on the right side. ^47:3When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. ^47:4Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist. ^47:5Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be walked through. ^47:6He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen?” Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river. ^47:7Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. ^47:8Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed. ^47:9It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes. ^47:10It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many. ^47:11But the miry places of it, and its marshes, will not be healed. They will be given up to salt. ^47:12By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.” ^47:13Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions. ^47:14You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers. This land will fall to you for inheritance. ^47:15“This shall be the border of the land: “On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; ^47:16Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. ^47:17The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side. ^47:18“The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side. ^47:19“The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward. ^47:20“The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side. ^47:21“So you shall divide this land to yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. ^47:22It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ^47:23It shall happen, that in whatever tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord Yahweh.

^48:1“Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion. ^48:2“By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion. ^48:3“By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one portion. ^48:4“By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion. ^48:5“By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion. ^48:6“By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion. ^48:7“By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion. ^48:8“By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it. ^48:9“The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in width. ^48:10For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the middle of it. ^48:11It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. ^48:12It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a most holy thing, by the border of the Levites. ^48:13“Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand. ^48:14They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh. ^48:15“The five thousand that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the middle of it. ^48:16These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. ^48:17The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty. ^48:18The remainder in the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city. ^48:19Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it. ^48:20All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city. ^48:21“The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it. ^48:22Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the middle of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. ^48:23“As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion. ^48:24“By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion. ^48:25“By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion. ^48:26“By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion. ^48:27“By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion. ^48:28“By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. ^48:29“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh. ^48:30“These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure; ^48:31and the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. ^48:32“At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one. ^48:33“At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one. ^48:34“At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one. ^48:35“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

Daniel

^1:1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. ^1:2The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. He brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. ^1:3The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring and of the nobles; ^1:4youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans. ^1:5The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king. ^1:6Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. ^1:7The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego. ^1:8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. ^1:9Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs. ^1:10The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? So would you endanger my head with the king.” ^1:11Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: ^1:12“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink. ^1:13Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.” ^1:14So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. ^1:15At the end of ten days, their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties. ^1:16So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables. ^1:17Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. ^1:18At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. ^1:19The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king. ^1:20In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm. ^1:21Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.

^2:1In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him. ^2:2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. ^2:3The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” ^2:4Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” ^2:5The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill. ^2:6But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.” ^2:7They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” ^2:8The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me. ^2:9But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.” ^2:10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. ^2:11It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” ^2:12Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. ^2:13So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain. ^2:14Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon. ^2:15He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. ^2:16Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation. ^2:17Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: ^2:18that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. ^2:19Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. ^2:20Daniel answered, “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his. ^2:21He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding. ^2:22He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. ^2:23I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter.” ^2:24Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.” ^2:25Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.” ^2:26The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?” ^2:27Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers; ^2:28but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: ^2:29“As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen. ^2:30But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart. ^2:31“You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying. ^2:32As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass, ^2:33its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. ^2:34You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. ^2:35Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. ^2:36“This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king. ^2:37You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory. ^2:38Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold. ^2:39“After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which will rule over all the earth. ^2:40The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush. ^2:41Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. ^2:42As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken. ^2:43Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay. ^2:44“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever. ^2:45Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.” ^2:46Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him. ^2:47The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.” ^2:48Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon. ^2:49Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.