concerning all the ordinances of the house they shall put off their garments wherein they of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and ministered, and lay them in the holy chan mark well the entering in of the house, with bers, and they shall put on other garments every going forth of the sanctuary. and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Gon, O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, because of all your abominations.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

21 Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before 23 And they shall teach my people the dif 8 And ye have not kept the charge of ference between the holy and profane, and mine holy things; but ye have set keepers of cause them to discern between the unclean my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. and the clean.

9 Thus saith the Lord GOD, No stranger, 24 And in controversy they shall stand in uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in judgment; and they shall judge it according flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any to my judgments: and they shall keep my stranger that is among the children of Israel. laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; 10 And the Levites that are gone away far and they shall hallow my sabbaths. from me, when Israel went astray, which 25 And they shall come at no dead person went astray away from me after their idols; to defile themselves: but for father, or for they shall even bear their iniquity. mother, or for son, or for daughter, for bro11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanc-ther, or for sister that hath had no husband, tuary, having charge at the gates of the they may defile themselves. house, and ministering to the house: they 26 And after he is cleansed, they shall shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice reckon unto him seven days. for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister 12 Because they ministered unto them be- in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offer. fore their idols, and caused the house of Is-ing, saith the Lord GOD.

rael to fall into iniquity; therefore have I 28 And it shall be unto them for an inhelifted up mine hand against them, saith the ritance; I am their inheritance: and ye shall Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. give them no possession in Israel; I am their 13 And they shall not come near unto me, possession. to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed:

14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

29 They shall eat the meat-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 And the first of all the first-fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

15 T But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanc- 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing tuary when the children of Israel went astray that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be from me, they shall come near to me to mi- fowl or beast. nister unto me, and they shall stand before

me to offer unto me the fat and the blood,

saith the Lord Gon:

CHAP. XLV. he land for inheritance, ye shall offer OREOVER, when ye shall divide by lot

16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion they shall come near to my table, to minister of the land: the length shall be the length unto me, and they shall keep my charge. of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the 17 ¶ And it shall come to pass, that, when breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be they enter in at the gates of the inner court, holy in all the borders thereof round about. they shall be clothed with linen garments; Of this there shall be for the sanctuary and no wool shall come upon them whiles five hundred in length, with five hundred in they minister in the gates of the inner court, breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits and within. round about for the suburbs thereof."

18 They shall have linen bonnets upon 3 And of this measure shalt thou measure their heads, and shall have linen breeches the length of five and twenty thousand, and upon their loins; they shall not gird them- the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall selves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the outer be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for court, even into the outer court to the people, the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary,

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which shall come near to minister unto the 19 And the priest shall take of the blood LORD; and it shall be a place for their of the sin-offering, and put it upon the posts houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. of the house, and upon the four corners of the

5 And the five and twenty thousand of settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the length, and the ten thousand of breadth, gate of the inner court. shall also the Levites, the ministers of the 20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of house, have for themselves, for a possession the month for every one that erreth, and for twenty chambers. for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile

6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the house. the city five thousand 'broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself, and for all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin-offering.

7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the 23 And seven days of the feast he shall pre holy portion, and before the possession of the pare a burnt-offering to the LORD, seven bulcity, from the west side westward, and from locks and seven rams without blemish daily the east side eastward; and the length shall the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily be over against one of the portions, from the for a sin-offering. west border unto the east border.

24 And he shall prepare a meat-offering 8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for and my princes shall no more oppress my peo- a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. ple; and the rest of the land shall they give to 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth the house of Israel according to their tribes. day of the month, shall he do the like in the 9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD, Let it suf- feast of the seven days, according to the sinfice you, O princes of Israel: remove vio- offering, according to the burnt-offering, and lence and spoil, and execute judgment and according to the meat-offering, and accordjustice, take away your exactions from my ing to the oil. people, saith the Lord GOD.

10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just

il The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel, for a meat-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.

CHAP. XLVI.

THUS saith the Lord GOD, The gate of

the inner court that looketh

east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new-moon it shall be opened.

2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall

12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fif-prepare his burnt-offering, and his peace-offteen shekels, shall be your maneh. erings, 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.

13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley.

3 Likewise the people of the land shall wor ship at the door of this gate before the LORD, in the sabbaths, and in the new-moons.

14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath-day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

5 And the meat-offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat-offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of cil to an ephah.

16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt-offerings, and meat-offering and drink-offerings, in the feasts, and in the new- 7 And he shall prepare a meat-offering, an moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemni- ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram; ties of the house of Israel: he shall prepare and for the lambs according as his hand shall the sin-offering, and the meat-offering, and attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, 8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. go in by the way of the porch of that gate,

18 Thus saith the Lord GOD, In the first and he shall go forth by the way thereof. month, in the first day of the month, thou 9 ¶ But when the people of the land shall shalt take a young bullock without blemish, come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, and cleanse the sanctuary: The that entereth in by the way of the north

6 And in the day of the new-moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.

gate to worship shall go ont by the way of thirty broad. these four corners were of i the south gate; and he that entereth by the one measure. 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 whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling-places under the rows round about.

24 Then said he unto me, These are the

10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when places of them that boil, where the minithey go forth, shall go forth: sters of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

11 And in the feasts, and in the solemnities, the incat-offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram; and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

12 Now when the prince shall prepare a of the house eastward: for the fore-front of voluntary burnt-offering, or peace-offerings the house stood toward the east, and the wa voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then ters came down from under, from the right him the gate that looketh toward side of the house, at the south side of the open the east, and he shall prepare his burnt-of- altar. fering and his peace-offerings as he did on the sabbath-day: then he shall go forth; the gate northward, and led me about the and after his going forth one shall shut the way without unto the outer gate by the way that looketh eastward; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.

2 Then brought he me out of the way of

3 And when the man that had the line a his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancies.

4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.

gate.

13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt-offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish; thou shalt prepare it every morning.

14 And thou shalt prepare a meat-offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat-offering continually, by a perpetual ordinance, unto the LORD.

CHAP. XLVII.

FTERWARD he brought me agas unto the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold

5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and

15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat-offering, and the oil, every it was a river that I could not pass over: morning, for a continual burnt-offering. for the waters were risen, waters to swim 16 Thus saith the Lord GOD, If the prince in, a river that could not be passed over.

give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.

7 Now, when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea; schich being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

19 T After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north and behold there was a place on the two sides westward.

10 And it shall come to pass, that the fish

20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-of-ers shall stand upon it, from En-gedi even fering and the sin-offering, where they shall unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to bake the meat-offering; that they bear then spread forth nets: their fish shall be accordnot out into the outer court, to sanctify the ing to their kinds, as the fish of the great people. sea, exceeding many.

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. 22 In the four corners of the court there of, on this side and on that side, shall grow were courts joined of forty cubits long and all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade,

11 But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

12 And by the river, upon the bank there

9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whichersoever the rivers shall come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither; for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

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neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: 6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the it shall bring forth new fruit according to east side even unto the west side, a portion for his months, because their waters they issued Reuben. out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Judah.

13 Thus saith the Lord GoD, This shall 8 ¶ And by the border of Judah, from the be the border whereby ye shall inherit the east side unto the west side, shall be the ofland, according to the twelve tribes of Is-fering which ye shall offer of five and twen rael: Joseph shall have two portions.

14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. 15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

ty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.

10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and 17 And the border from the sea shall be toward the south five and twenty thousand Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD the north northward, and the border of Ha-shall be in the midst thereof. math. And this is the north side.

11 It shall be for the priests that are sanc 18 And the east side ye shall measure tified of the sons of Zadok, which have kept from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from my charge, which went not astray when the Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jor- children of Israel went astray, as the Levites dan, from the border unto the east sea. And went astray.

this is the east side.

is the south side southward.

12 And this oblation of the land that is 19 And the south side southward, from offered shall be unto them a thing most holy, Tamar even to the waters of strife in Ka-by the border of the Levites. desh, the river to the great sea. And this 13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty 20 The west side also shall be the great thousand in length, and ten thousand in sea from the border, till a man come over breadth: all the length shall be five and against Hamath. This is the west side. twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

14 And they shall not sell of it, neither ex22 ¶ And it shall come to pass, that ye change, nor alienate the first-fruits of the shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto land: for it is holy unto the LORD. you, and to the strangers that sojourn among 15 ¶ And the five thousand that are left you, which shall beget children among you; in the breadth, over against the five and and they shall be unto you as born in the twenty thousand, shall be a profane place country among the children of Israel; they for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs; shall have inheritance with you among the and the city shall be in the midst thereof. tribes of Israel. 16 And these shall be the measures there

23 And it shall come to pass, that in what of; the north side four thousand and five tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye hundred, and the south side four thousand give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD. and five hundred, and on the east side four CHAP. XLVIII. thousand and five hundred, and the west

NOW these are the names of the tribes. side four thousand and five hundred.

From the north end to the coast of the 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toway of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, ward the north two hundred and fifty, and Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus north- toward the south two hundred and fifty, and ward, to the coast of Hamath, (for these are toward the east two hundred and fifty, and his sides east and west,) a portion for Dan. toward the west two hundred and fifty. 2 And by the border of Dan, from the east 18 And the residue in length, over against side unto the west side, a portion for Asher. the oblation of the holy portion, shall be ten 3 And by the border of Asher, from the thousand eastward, and ten thousand westeast side even unto the west side, a portion ward: and it shall be over against the oblafor Naphtali. tion of the holy portion; and the increase 4 And by the border of Naphtali, from thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the east side unto the west side, a portion for the city. Manasseh.

19 And they that serve the city shall serve 5 And by the border of Manasseh, from it out of all the tribes of Israel. the east side unto the west side, a portion for 20 All the oblation shall be five and twen Ephraim. 'ty thousand by five and twenty thousand

ye shall offer the holy oblation four-square, the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion. with the possession of the city. 28 And by the border of Gad, at the sath 21 And the residue shall be for the prince, side southward, the border shall be even on the one side and on the other of the holy from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kaoblation, and of the possession of the city, desh, and to the river toward the great sea. over against the five and twenty thousand 29 This is the land which ye shall divide of the oblation toward the east border, and by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritwestward over against the five and twenty ance, and these are their portions, saith the thousand toward the west border, over Lord GOD. against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof. 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, shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.

24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.

26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.

27 And by the border of Zebulun, from

30 ¶ And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and onegate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.

33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures; and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.

¶ The Book of DANIEL.

5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank; so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.

6 Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiali, Mishael, and Azariah;

35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

CHAP. I.

IN the third year of the reign of Jehoia-to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

kim king of Judah came_Nebuchadnez- 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that zar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and he would not defile himself with the portion besieged it. of the king's meat, nor with the wine which 2 And the LORD gave Jehoiakim king of he drank: therefore he requested of the Judah into his hand, with part of the ves-prince of the eunuchs that he might not desels of the house of God, which he carried file himself.

|Shadrach ; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and

7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the varme of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of

into the land of Shinar, to the house of his 9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour god; and he brought the vessels into the and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs treasure-house of his god.

3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;

10 And the prince of the cunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shail ye make me endanger my head to the king.

4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well-favoured and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in thein to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of

11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

the Chaldeans.

13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat; and as thou seest,deal with thy servants.

14 So he consented to them in this mat ter, and proved them ten days.

15 And at the end of ten days their coun tenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the por tion of the king's meat.

16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of