Ezekiel 40; Ezekiel 41; 2 Peter 3

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Ezekiel 40

1 In the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of our exile, on the tenth day of the month, exactly fourteen years after the city was struck down, on that very day, the LORD's power was on me, and he took me there.

2 In God's visions, he brought me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain, where there was a city structure to the south.

3 When he brought me there, I saw a man standing in the gate. He appeared to be bronze, and he had a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.

4 The man spoke to me, "Human one, look and listen well, and take seriously everything I show you, because you were brought here so that these things could be revealed to you. Describe everything you see to the house of Israel."

5 Now there was an outer wall that went all the way around the temple compound. The measuring rod in the man's hand was ten and a half feet (based on a standard eighteen inches plus three inches). When he measured the wall's height and width it was ten and a half feet high and ten and a half feet wide.

6 He entered the gate facing east. He went up its steps, and he measured the plaza at the gate. It was ten and a half feet wide: the plaza was ten and a half feet wide.

7 The rooms were ten and a half feet long and ten and a half feet wide, with a space of seven and a half feet between them. The plaza next to the porch at the gate opposite the temple was ten and a half feet.

8 He measured the porch of the gate opposite the temple: it was ten and a half feet.

9 Then he measured the porch of the gate: it was twelve feet, and its arches were three feet. The porch of the gate was opposite the temple.

10 Inside the east gate, there were three rooms on each side. Each was the same size, and the arches on each side were the same size also.

11 Then he measured the width of the gate opening, which was fifteen feet, and the gate's length, which was nineteen and a half feet.

12 A border running along the front of the rooms on each side was eighteen inches wide, and each of the rooms was nine feet square.

13 He measured the gate through the room openings that faced each other. From the outer ceiling edge of one room to the outer ceiling edge of the other, the gate was thirty-seven and a half feet wide.

14 Next he made out the perimeter of the hallway, defined by the arches inside the gate: it was ninety feet.

15 It was seventy-five feet from the front of the outer gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate.

16 Inside the gate, all of the rooms and their arches had closed windows; there were also niches inside the porch all the way around. The arches were decorated with palm trees.

17 Then he brought me to the outer courtyard, which consisted of chambers and a pavement all the way around. Thirty chambers came up to the pavement,

18 and the pavement came up to the facades of the gates along their entire length. That was the lower pavement.

19 When he measured the width from the inside of the lower gate to the outer edge of the inner courtyard, it was one hundred fifty feet. After he measured the east gate, he measured the north gate,

20 the one facing north at the outer courtyard. He measured its length and width,

21 its three inner rooms on each side, its arches, and its porch. Its measurements were the same as the first gate: seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.

22 The windows, porch, and palm decorations had the same measurements as those of the east gate. Seven steps led up to the entrance, and the porch was at the other end.

23 There were also gates to the inner courtyard opposite the north and east gates. When he measured from gate to gate, it was one hundred fifty feet.

24 Then he had me walk toward the south, where there was a gate facing south. He measured its arches and porch using the same measurements.

25 Its windows and its porch all around were like the others, and the gate also was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.

26 Its stairway had seven steps, and its porch was at the other end. On its arches, one on either side, were palm decorations.

27 There was a gate to the inner courtyard on the south. When he measured from gate to gate on the south side, it was one hundred fifty feet.

28 When he brought me to the inner courtyard by way of the south gate, he took the same measurements of the south gate.

29 Its rooms, arches, and porch, as well as its windows and porch all the way around, measured the same as the others. It was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.

30 There were porches all around, thirty-seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide.

31 Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palms decorated its arches, and its stairway had eight steps.

32 Then he brought me to the inner courtyard on the east side, and again he took the same measurements of the gate.

33 Its rooms, arches, and porch measured the same as the others, as well as its windows and porch all the way around. It was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.

34 Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees decorated its arches on both sides, and its stairway had eight steps.

35 Then he brought me to the north gate and took the same measurements of the

36 rooms, arches, and porch, and also its windows all around. It was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.

37 Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees decorated its arches on both sides, and its stairway had eight steps.

38 At that gate, there was a room with an entrance in the arches for washing the entirely burned offering,

39 and inside the porch on each side of the gate were two tables where the entirely burned offerings, the purification offerings, and the compensation offerings were slaughtered.

40 Outside, two pairs of tables flanked the entrance of the north gate at both ends, at the steps on one end and the porch on the other.

41 There were four tables on each side of the gate, eight tables in all, for preparing the animal offerings.

42 The four tables that were used for the entirely burned offering as well as for the communal sacrifices were made of hewn stone. Each was twenty-seven inches square and eighteen inches high. Equipment used in the ritual slaughter was set on them.

43 Hooks, three inches wide, were securely fixed all the way around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.

44 Outside the inner gate there were two chambers in the inner courtyard. The one beside the north gate faced south, and the one beside the east gate faced north.

45 He spoke to me: "The chamber facing south is for the priests who keep watch over the temple,

46 and the chamber facing north is for the priests who keep watch over the altar. Of all the Levites, only the Zadokites may draw near to serve the LORD."

47 Then he measured the courtyard. It was square, one hundred fifty feet long and one hundred fifty feet wide. The altar was in front of the temple.

48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured its arches. They were seven and a half feet on each side, and the width of the gate was four and a half feet on each side.

49 The porch was thirty feet long and eighteen feet wide. Steps led up into the porch, and there were columns for the arches, one on each side.

Ezekiel 41

1 He brought me to the main hall, and he measured the arches. They were nine feet deep on both sides, so that was also the depth of the tent.

2 The entrance was fifteen feet wide, and the facades on either side of the entrance were seven and a half feet. When he measured its length, it was sixty feet, and its width was thirty feet.

3 Then he went into the inner room, and he measured the arches on both sides of the entrance; they were each three feet. The entrance was nine feet wide, and its depth was ten and a half feet.

4 When he measured the length of the inner room, it was thirty feet, and the width of the side adjoining the main hall was also thirty feet. He said to me, "This is the most holy place."

5 When he measured the wall of the temple, it was nine feet, and the side chambers that went all the way around the temple were six feet.

6 Now these side chambers adjoined each other, thirty chambers in three stories. The side chambers had a ledge in the temple wall all the way around to serve as supports, but these supports were not inserted into the temple wall itself.

7 A wide ramp ascended stage by stage to the side chambers all the way around the temple. In this way, the ascent stage by stage all around the temple added to the temple's width. One ascended from the foundation to the top by way of the middle story.

8 Then I looked at the temple: Its roof all around rested on the side chambers. Each raised section was ten and a half feet, and the indentations between them were nine feet.

9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was seven and a half feet. The space left free between the temple's side chambers and

10 the other chambers was thirty feet wide all the way around the temple.

11 There were two entrances from the side chambers to the free space, one facing north, the other facing south. And the width of the place that was left free was seven and a half feet all the way around.

12 The structure facing the yard on the west was one hundred five feet wide. The structure's wall was seven and a half feet wide all the way around, and its length was one hundred thirty-five feet.

13 Then he measured the temple. It was one hundred fifty feet long. The yard, the structure, and its walls were also one hundred fifty feet.

14 The area in front of the house and the yard to the east was one hundred fifty feet also.

15 Then he measured the length of the structure along the side of the yard, including its promenades on both sides: one hundred fifty feet. Now the interior of the main hall as well as the porches in the courtyard

16 were paneled all around, including the ceilings, closed windows, and its three courses of promenades adjoined the ceiling. From the ground up to the windows was covered.

17 Above the entrance, from the interior to the exterior of the temple, and on every interior and exterior wall,

18 there were carved winged creatures and palm trees. The palm trees were positioned between the winged creatures, and each winged creature had two faces.

19 A human face turned toward one palm tree, and the face of a lion turned toward another. They were carved on the temple all the way around.

20 From the ground to above the entrance, the walls of the main hall were carved with winged creatures and palm trees.

21 In the main hall itself, there were square doorposts in front of the holy place, where there was the appearance of

22 the altar. It was four and a half feet high and three feet wide. It was made of wood, and its corners, base, and sides were also wood. He said to me, "This is the table that stands before the LORD."

23 The main hall and the holy place each had two doors,

24 and each door had two turning panels, two for one door and two for the other.

25 Like the walls, the doors of the main hall were carved with winged creatures and palm trees. A single luxuriant tree stood outside, in front of the porch,

26 while closed windows and palm trees decorated both sides of the facade of the porch, the temple's side chambers, and the beams.

2 Peter 3

1 My dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both letters to stir up your sincere understanding with a reminder.

2 I want you to recall what the holy prophets foretold as well as what the Lord and savior commanded through your apostles.

3 Most important, know this: in the last days scoffers will come, jeering, living by their own cravings,

4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? After all, nothing has changed—not since the beginning of creation, nor even since the ancestors died."

5 But they fail to notice that, by God's word, heaven and earth were formed long ago out of water and by means of water.

6 And it was through these that the world of that time was flooded and destroyed.

7 But by the same word, heaven and earth are now held in reserve for fire, kept for the Judgment Day and destruction of ungodly people.

8 Don't let it escape your notice, dear friends, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day.

9 The Lord isn't slow to keep his promise, as some think of slowness, but he is patient toward you, not wanting anyone to perish but all to change their hearts and lives.

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a dreadful noise, the elements will be consumed by fire, and the earth and all the works done on it will be exposed.

11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be? You must live holy and godly lives,

12 waiting for and hastening the coming day of God. Because of that day, the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt away in the flames.

13 But according to his promise we are waiting for a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

14 Therefore, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found by him in peace—pure and faultless.

15 Consider the patience of our Lord to be salvation, just as our dear friend and brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,

16 speaking of these things in all his letters. Some of his remarks are hard to understand, and people who are ignorant and whose faith is weak twist them to their own destruction, just as they do the other scriptures.

17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been warned in advance, be on guard so that you aren't led off course into the error of sinful people, and lose your own safe position.

18 Instead, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. To him belongs glory now and forever. Amen.

Ezekiel 40; Ezekiel 41; 2 Peter 3

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