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and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of manywaters; and the earthshone with His glory.
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And it was like the appearance of the visionwhich I saw, like the visionwhich I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the visionwhich I saw by the riverChebar; and I fell on my face.
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He 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 dwellamong the sons of Israelforever. And the house of Israel will not againdefile My holyname, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die,
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by setting their threshold by My threshold and their doorpostbeside My doorpost, with only the wallbetween Me and them. And they have defiled My holyname by their abominationswhich they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger.
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"If they are ashamed of all that they have done, makeknown to them the design of the house, its structure, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its wholedesign and all its statutes and do them.
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"And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth ): the base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edgeroundaboutonespan; and this shall be the height of the base of the altar.
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"From the base on the ground to the lowerledge shall be twocubits and the width one cubit; and from the smallerledge to the largerledge shall be fourcubits and the widthonecubit.
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"The ledge shall be fourteen* cubits long by fourteen*wide in its foursides, the borderaround it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubitroundabout; and its steps shall face the east."
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And He said to me, "Son of man, thussays the LordGOD, 'These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offerburntofferings on it and to sprinkleblood on it.
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'You shall give to the Leviticalpriestswho are from the offspring of Zadok, who drawnear to Me to minister to Me,' declares the LordGOD, 'a youngbull for a sinoffering.
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'You shall takesome of its blood and put it on its fourhorns and on the fourcorners of the ledge and on the borderroundabout; thus you shall cleanse it and makeatonement for it.
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'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighthday and onward, the priests shall offer your burntofferings on the altar, and your peaceofferings; and I will accept you,' declares the LordGOD."