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    Ezekiel 42

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    The priests' clothes know where the boundary lies: holy garments must be left behind before anyone approaches the places set aside for the people.

    The chambers on the north and southvv. 1–12

    The man leads the narrator into the outer court, to chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the northern outer wall. They are galleries in three storeys, facing one another with the upper rooms retreating because the galleries take their space; an arrangement of admirable precision, and rather less room upstairs. Matching chambers stand on the south, with their passageways, doors, lengths, and widths corresponding to those on the north.

    Garments for the holy chambersvv. 13–14

    Then the man explains the purpose of the northern and southern chambers. Priests who approach the LORD eat the most holy offerings there, and the grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings are placed there because the place is holy. But the garments worn in ministry must remain behind before the priests enter the outer court; other clothes are required before they approach the places for the people. The wardrobe, here, performs the sorting.

    Five hundred cubits on every sidevv. 15–20

    When the measuring inside the temple area is finished, the man leads the narrator out through the east-facing gate and measures the whole enclosure. East, north, south, and west each receive five hundred cubits. The result is a square bounded by a wall, separating the holy from the common with the calm finality of a ruler laid along every edge.

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    1. Ezek 42:1Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.

    2. Ezek 42:2The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

    3. Ezek 42:3Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.

    4. Ezek 42:4In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

    5. Ezek 42:5Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

    6. Ezek 42:6For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

    7. Ezek 42:7An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.

    8. Ezek 42:8For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.

    9. Ezek 42:9And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

    10. Ezek 42:10On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,

    11. Ezek 42:11with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.

    12. Ezek 42:12And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.

    13. Ezek 42:13Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.

    14. Ezek 42:14Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”

    15. Ezek 42:15Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:

    16. Ezek 42:16With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

    17. Ezek 42:17He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.

    18. Ezek 42:18He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.

    19. Ezek 42:19And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.

    20. Ezek 42:20So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 95 passages were voted onto 16 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 13Leviticus 7:6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
    • 13Leviticus 10:17“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.
    • 20Ezekiel 45:2Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
    • 1Ezekiel 40:20He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.
    • 1Ezekiel 40:17Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
    • 3Ezekiel 41:15–16Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
    • 9Ezekiel 46:19Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end
    • 10Ezekiel 42:1Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
    • 13Ezekiel 40:46and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”
    • 14Ezekiel 44:19When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
    • 20Ezekiel 40:5And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
    • 3Ezekiel 41:10and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
    • 13Exodus 29:31You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
    • 13Leviticus 14:13Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
    • 13Numbers 18:9–10A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
    • 14Leviticus 8:7He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

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