Bible Reading for December 7 and 8
World English Bible
Dec.
7
Ezekiel
41-44
Eze
41:1 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits
broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which
was the breadth of the tent.
Eze
41:2 The breadth 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: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the
breadth, twenty cubits.
Eze
41:3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance,
two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the
entrance, seven cubits.
Eze
41:4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty
cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy
place.
Eze
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on
every side.
Eze
41:6 The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, and
thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the
house for the side chambers all around, that they might have hold
therein,
and not have hold in the wall of the house.
Eze
41:7 The side chambers were broader as they encompassed the
house higher and higher; for the
encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house:
therefore the breadth of the house continued
upward; and so one went up from
the lowest chamber
to the highest by the middle chamber.
Eze
41:8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the
foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits.
Eze
41:9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers, on
the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place
of the side chambers that belonged to the house.
Eze
41:10 Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits around the
house on every side.
Eze
41:11 The doors of the side chambers were toward the
place that was left, one door toward the
north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the
place that was left was five cubits all around.
Eze
41:12 The building that was before the separate place at the side
toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the
building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety
cubits.
Eze
41:13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the
separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits
long;
Eze
41:14 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate
place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
Eze
41:15 He 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; and the inner temple, and the
porches of the court;
Eze
41:16 the 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),
Eze
41:17 to the space
above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the
wall all around inside and outside, by measure.
Eze
41:18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was
between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
Eze
41:19 so 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. thus was it
made through all the house all around:
Eze
41:20 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees
made: thus was the wall of the temple.
Eze
41:21 As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the
face of the sanctuary, the appearance of
it was as the appearance of
the temple.
Eze
41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two
cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood:
and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.
Eze
41:23 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Eze
41:24 The doors had two leaves apiece,
two turning leaves: two leaves
for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
Eze
41:25 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim
and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a
threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
Eze
41:26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and
on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side
chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
Eze
42:1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward
the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against
the separate place, and which was over against the building toward
the north.
Eze
42:2 Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and
the breadth was fifty cubits.
Eze
42:3 Over against the twenty cubits
which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement
which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the
third story.
Eze
42:4 Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a
way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
Eze
42:5 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took
away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the
building.
Eze
42:6 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as
the pillars of the courts: therefore the
uppermost was straitened more than the
lowest and the middle from the ground.
Eze
42:7 The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward
the outer court before the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.
Eze
42:8 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was
fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
Eze
42:9 From under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as
one goes into them from the outer court.
Eze
42:10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,
before the separate place, and before the building, there were
chambers.
Eze
42:11 The way before them was like the appearance of the
way of the chambers which were toward
the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all
their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to
their doors.
Eze
42:12 According to the doors of the chambers 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.
Eze
42:13 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers,
which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers,
where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy
things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal
offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the
place is holy.
Eze
42:14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the
holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their
garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall
put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to
the people.
Eze
42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he
brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the
east, and measured it all around.
Eze
42:16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five
hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
Eze
42:17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed all around.
Eze
42:18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed.
Eze
42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed.
Eze
42:20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the
length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a
separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
Eze
43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks
toward the east.
Eze
43:2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the
east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth
shined with his glory.
Eze
43:3 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the
city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Eze
43:4 The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate
whose prospect is toward the east.
Eze
43:5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and
behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
Eze
43:6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by
me.
Eze
43:7 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 dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The
house of Israel shall 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;
Eze
43:8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their
doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was but
the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by
their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have
consumed them in my anger.
Eze
43:9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies
of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them
forever.
Eze
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.
Eze
43:11 If they be 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.
Eze
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.
Eze
43:13 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a
cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the
breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this
shall be the base of the altar.
Eze
43:14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two
cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the
greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.
Eze
43:15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar
hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
Eze
43:16 The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits
long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.
Eze
43:17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits
long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; 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.
Eze
43:18 He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These
are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it,
to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
Eze
43:19 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed
of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord
Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.
Eze
43:20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of
it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all
around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
Eze
43:21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall
be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the
sanctuary.
Eze
43:22 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish
for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did
cleanse it with the bull.
Eze
43:23 When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a
young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without
blemish.
Eze
43:24 You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall
cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering
to Yahweh.
Eze
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 blemish.
Eze
43:26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify
it; so shall they consecrate it.
Eze
43:27 When 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; and I will accept you, says
the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
44:1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the
sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
Eze
44:2 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be
opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of
Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.
Eze
44:3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein 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.
Eze
44:4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the
house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house
of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.
Eze
44:5 Yahweh 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 the house of Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well
the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
Eze
44:6 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of
all your abominations,
Eze
44:7 in 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.
Eze
44:8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have
set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Eze
44:9 Thus 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.
Eze
44:10 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray,
who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their
iniquity.
Eze
44:11 Yet 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.
Eze
44:12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became
a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have
I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they
shall bear their iniquity.
Eze
44:13 They 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 shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed.
Eze
44:14 Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house, for
all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.
Eze
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, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall
stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord
Yahweh:
Eze
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.
Eze
44:17 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner
court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall
come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court,
and within.
Eze
44:18 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have
linen breeches on their waists; they shall not gird themselves with
anything that causes
sweat.
Eze
44:19 When they go forth 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 chambers; and they shall put on
other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their
garments.
Eze
44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to
grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
Eze
44:21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court.
Eze
44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who
is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of
Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Eze
44:23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and
the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the
clean.
Eze
44:24 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my
ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my
statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths
holy.
Eze
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.
Eze
44:26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
Eze
44:27 In 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.
Eze
44:28 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and
you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
Eze
44:29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and
the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be
theirs.
Eze
44:30 The 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.
Eze
44:31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or
is torn, whether it be bird or animal.
Dec.
8
Ezekiel
45-48
Eze
45:1 Moreover, when you shall 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 breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all its border
all around.
Eze
45:2 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred in
length by five hundred in
breadth, square all around; and fifty
cubits for its suburbs all around.
Eze
45:3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five
thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the
sanctuary, which is most holy.
Eze
45:4 It 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;
and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the
sanctuary.
Eze
45:5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth,
shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession
to themselves, for
twenty chambers.
Eze
45:6 You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering
of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
Eze
45:7 Whatever 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.
Eze
45:8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and
my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the
land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
Eze
45:9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of
Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and
righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
45:10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just
bath.
Eze
45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part
of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.
Eze
45:12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus
twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
Eze
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;
Eze
45:14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part
of a bath out of the cor, which is
ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
Eze
45:15 and 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.
Eze
45:16 All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the
prince in Israel.
Eze
45:17 It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and
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, and the meal
offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make
atonement for the house of Israel.
Eze
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 blemish; and you
shall cleanse the sanctuary.
Eze
45:19 The 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.
Eze
45:20 So 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.
Eze
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.
Eze
45:22 On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all
the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
Eze
45:23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering
to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven
days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
Eze
45:24 He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an
ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
Eze
45:25 In the seventh month,
in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like
the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt
offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the
oil.
Eze
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.
Eze
46:2 The 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 forth;
but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
Eze
46:3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate
before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
Eze
46:4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall
be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without
blemish;
Eze
46:5 and 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.
Eze
46:6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without
blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
Eze
46:7 and he 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.
Eze
46:8 When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the
porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by its way.
Eze
46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the
appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to
worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he who
enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth 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 forth straight before him.
Eze
46:10 The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them; and
when they go out, he shall go out.
Eze
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.
Eze
46:12 When the prince shall prepare 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 forth; and after his going forth one
shall shut the gate.
Eze
46:13 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a
burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning you shall prepare
it.
Eze
46:14 You 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.
Eze
46:15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and
the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
Eze
46:16 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of
his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is
their possession by inheritance.
Eze
46:17 But if he give 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.
Eze
46:18 Moreover 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
be scattered every man from his possession.
Eze
46:19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of
the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward
the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.
Eze
46:20 He 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
forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
Eze
46:21 Then he brought me forth 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.
Eze
46:22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed,
forty cubits
long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one measure.
Eze
46:23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling
places were made under the walls all around.
Eze
46:24 Then said he to me, These are the boiling houses, where the
ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
Eze
47:1 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters
issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the
forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came
down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of
the altar.
Eze
47:2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and
led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the
gate that looks toward the east; and
behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
Eze
47:3 When the man went forth 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.
Eze
47:4 Again 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 the
waters, waters that were to the waist.
Eze
47:5 Afterward he measured one thousand; and
it was a river that I could not pass
through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
could not be passed through.
Eze
47:6 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen this?
Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.
Eze
47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were
very many trees on the one side and on the other.
Eze
47:8 Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern
region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward
the sea; into the sea shall the waters
go which were made to issue forth; and
the waters shall be healed.
Eze
47:9 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in
every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a
very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and
the waters of the sea
shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
Eze
47:10 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En
Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets;
their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea,
exceeding many.
Eze
47:11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be
healed; they shall be given up to salt.
Eze
47:12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall
grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall
its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because
its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for
food, and its leaf for healing.
Eze
47:13 Thus 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.
Eze
47:14 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to
give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for
inheritance.
Eze
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;
Eze
47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of
Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the
border of Hauran.
Eze
47:17 The 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.
Eze
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.
Eze
47:19 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the
waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook of
Egypt, to the great sea. This is the
south side southward.
Eze
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.
Eze
47:21 So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes
of Israel.
Eze
47:22 It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you, who
shall father children among you; and 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.
Eze
47:23 It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns,
there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze
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.
Eze
48:2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side,
Asher, one portion.
Eze
48:3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west
side, Naphtali, one portion.
Eze
48:4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side,
Manasseh, one portion.
Eze
48:5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side,
Ephraim, one portion.
Eze
48:6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west
side, Reuben, one portion.
Eze
48:7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side,
Judah, one portion.
Eze
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
breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to
the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.
Eze
48:9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be
twenty-five thousand reeds
in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
Eze
48:10 For 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 breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh
shall be in its midst.
Eze
48:11 It 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.
Eze
48:12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land,
a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.
Eze
48:13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall
have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all
the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten
thousand.
Eze
48:14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the
first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
Eze
48:15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, 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 its midst.
Eze
48:16 These shall be its measures: 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.
Eze
48:17 The 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.
Eze
48:18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering,
shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it
shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be
for food to those who labor in the city.
Eze
48:19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel,
shall cultivate it.
Eze
48:20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five
thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the
possession of the city.
Eze
48:21 The residue 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, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince:
and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its
midst.
Eze
48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the
possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the
prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it
shall be for the prince.
Eze
48:23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west
side, Benjamin, one portion.
Eze
48:24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west
side, Simeon, one portion.
Eze
48:25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side,
Issachar, one portion.
Eze
48:26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west
side, Zebulun, one portion.
Eze
48:27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side,
Gad, one portion.
Eze
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 of Egypt,
to the great sea.
Eze
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.
Eze
48:30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four
thousand and five hundred reeds
by measure;
Eze
48:31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the
gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
Eze
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.
Eze
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.
Eze
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.
Eze
48:35 It shall be eighteen thousand reeds
around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is
there.
Dec. 7
1 Peter
5
1Pe 5:1
I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of
the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that
will be revealed.
1Pe 5:2
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the
oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest
gain, but willingly;
1Pe 5:3
neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making
yourselves examples to the flock.
1Pe 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of
glory that doesn't fade away.
1Pe 5:5
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you
gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another;
for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
1Pe 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he
may exalt you in due time;
1Pe 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
1Pe 5:8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil,
walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
1Pe 5:9
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers
who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
1Pe
5:10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while,
perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
1Pe
5:11 To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
1Pe
5:12 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I
have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is
the true grace of God in which you stand.
1Pe
5:13 She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you;
and so does Mark, my son.
1Pe
5:14 Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who
are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Dec. 8
2 Peter
1
2Pe 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who
have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of
our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of
Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3
seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that
pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who
called us by his own glory and virtue;
2Pe 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great
promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by
lust.
2Pe 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in
your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence,
knowledge;
2Pe 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in
patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection,
love.
2Pe 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not
idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near,
having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
2Pe
1:10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and
election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
2Pe
1:11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the
eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2Pe
1:12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these
things, though you know them, and are established in the present
truth.
2Pe
1:13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up
by reminding you;
2Pe
1:14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as
our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
2Pe
1:15 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to
remember these things even after my departure.
2Pe
1:16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we
were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe
1:17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the
voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased."
2Pe
1:18 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on
the holy mountain.
2Pe
1:19 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that
you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day
dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
2Pe
1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private
interpretation.
2Pe
1:21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of
God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
