Holy Orthodox Bible, part 5

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 39

And thou, O son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith * the Lord, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, ruler of Ros, * Mosoch and * Thobel, 2 and I will gather thee, and guide thee down, and bring thee up from the most distant north, and I will lead thee up against the mountains of Israel. 3 And I will destroy thy bow from out of thy left hand, and thy arrows from out of thy right hand, and I will throw thee down 4 upon the mountains of Israel, and thou and all those who are around thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to a multitudes of birds, even to every fowl I have given thee, and to all the wild beasts of the field for food. 5 Thou shall fall upon the face of the field, for I have spoken it, saith * the Lord. 6 And I will send a fire upon * Gog, and the islands shall be inhabited in peace, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

* Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Mesoch”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Thober”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Thoubal”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Magog”.
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And away we go. Just nine more chapters after this one.
Peter

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 39

And thou, O son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith * the Lord, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, ruler of Ros, * Mosoch and * Thobel, 2 and I will gather thee, and guide thee down, and bring thee up from the most distant north, and I will lead thee up against the mountains of Israel. 3 And I will destroy thy bow from out of thy left hand, and thy arrows from out of thy right hand, and I will throw thee down 4 upon the mountains of Israel, and thou and all those who are around thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to a multitudes of birds, even to every fowl I have given thee, and to all the wild beasts of the field for food. 5 Thou shall fall upon the face of the field, for I have spoken it, saith * the Lord. 6 And I will send a fire upon * Gog, and the islands shall be inhabited in peace, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 And My holy name shall be known in the midst of My people Israel, and My holy name shall no longer be profaned. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. 8 Behold it is come, and thou shall know that it shall be, saith * the Lord, THE LORD; this is the day concerning which I have spoken. 9 And those who inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and burn among the armaments, the shields and the spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall burn among them for seven years. 10 And they shall not take any trees from out of the field, neither shall they cut any from out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and despoil those who despoiled them, saith * the Lord. 11 And it shall come to pass that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown as a tomb in Israel, the burial-place of those who approach the sea, and they shall build around the outlet of the valley, 12 and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude, and the place shall then be called * The Gai, the burial-place of Gog. 13 And the house of Israel shall bury them so that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months. (13) And all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them as a place of renown on the day wherein I was glorified, saith * the Lord. 14 And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land to bury those who have been left upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall search for them.

* Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Mesoch”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Thober”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Thoubal”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Magog”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord Almighty”.

* Codex Vaticanus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omit: “The Gai”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 39

And thou, O son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith * the Lord, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, ruler of Ros, * Mosoch and * Thobel, 2 and I will gather thee, and guide thee down, and bring thee up from the most distant north, and I will lead thee up against the mountains of Israel. 3 And I will destroy thy bow from out of thy left hand, and thy arrows from out of thy right hand, and I will throw thee down 4 upon the mountains of Israel, and thou and all those who are around thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to a multitudes of birds, even to every fowl I have given thee, and to all the wild beasts of the field for food. 5 Thou shall fall upon the face of the field, for I have spoken it, saith * the Lord. 6 And I will send a fire upon * Gog, and the islands shall be inhabited in peace, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 And My holy name shall be known in the midst of My people Israel, and My holy name shall no longer be profaned. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. 8 Behold it is come, and thou shall know that it shall be, saith * the Lord, THE LORD; this is the day concerning which I have spoken. 9 And those who inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and burn among the armaments, the shields and the spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall burn among them for seven years. 10 And they shall not take any trees from out of the field, neither shall they cut any from out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and despoil those who despoiled them, saith * the Lord. 11 And it shall come to pass that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown as a tomb in Israel, the burial-place of those who approach the sea, and they shall build around the outlet of the valley, 12 and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude, and the place shall then be called * The Gai, the burial-place of Gog. 13 And the house of Israel shall bury them so that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months. (13) And all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them as a place of renown on the day wherein I was glorified, saith * the Lord. 14 And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land to bury those who have been left upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall search for them. 15 And every one who goes through the land, and sees the bone of a human being, shall set up a marker by it, until the buriers bury it in * The Gai, the burial-place of Gog. 16 For even the name of the city shall be Burial-Place, and shall the land be cleansed. 17 And thou, O son of man, say, Thus saith * the Lord, Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all around the surrounding places for My sacrifice, which I have sacrificed for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat meat and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of giants, and ye shall drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves. 19 And ye shall eat fat until ye are satisfied, and shall drink wine until ye are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 And ye shall be filled at My table, eating horse, and rider, and giant, and every male warrior, saith * the Lord. 21 And I will impart My glory among you, and all the nations shall see My judgment which I have wrought, and My hand which I have brought upon them. 22 And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord, their God, from this day and beyond. 23 And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel was taken captive because of their sins, because they were disloyal against Me, and I turned My face away from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the dagger. 24 I dealt with them according to their uncleannesses and according to their lawlessness, and I turned My face away from them. 25 Therefore, thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, Now will I turn back the captivity of Jacob, and will show mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous because of My holy name. 26 And they shall receive their dishonor, and the iniquity, which they committed when they settled upon their land in peace. And there shall be none to frieghten them 27 after I turn them back from the nations, and gathered them out from the countries of the nations, and then will I be sanctified among them before the nations. 28 And they shall know that I am the Lord, their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations *. 29 And I will never more turn My face away from them, because I have poured out My wrath upon the house of Israel, saith * the Lord, THE LORD.

* Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Mesoch”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Thober”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Thoubal”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Magog”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord Almighty”.

* Codex Vaticanus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omit: “The Gai”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omit: “The Gai”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “…in My gathering them upon their land. And I will never again abandon them there in exile”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 40

And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord came upon me, and brought me 2 in a vision of God into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it there was as it were the construction of a city before me. 3 And he brought me in there, and, behold, there was a man, and the appearance of him was like the appearance of shining bronze, and in his hand was a builder’s cord, and a measuring reed and he stood by the gate. 4 And the man said to me, Have thou seen, O son of man? Behold with thy eyes and hear with thy ears, and lay up in thine heart all the things that I show thee, for thou have come in here so that I might show thee, and thou shall show all the things that thou sees to the house of Israel. 5 And behold a wall all around the house outside of it, and in the man’s hand was a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by a cubit, and a palm, and he measured the area around the wall; its breadth was equal to the reed, and the height of it was equal to the reed.

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Christ is Risen!!

Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 40

And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord came upon me, and brought me 2 in a vision of God into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it there was as it were the construction of a city before me. 3 And he brought me in there, and, behold, there was a man, and the appearance of him was like the appearance of shining bronze, and in his hand was a builder’s cord, and a measuring reed and he stood by the gate. 4 And the man said to me, Have thou seen, O son of man? Behold with thy eyes and hear with thy ears, and lay up in thine heart all the things that I show thee, for thou have come in here so that I might show thee, and thou shall show all the things that thou sees to the house of Israel. 5 And behold a wall all around the house outside of it, and in the man’s hand was a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by a cubit, and a palm, and he measured the area around the wall; its breadth was equal to the reed, and the height of it was equal to the reed. 6 And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward and he measured the vestibule, six by six, and the porch of the gate was equal to the reed *. 7 And the vestibule was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed, and the porch in the middle of the chambers six cubits. And the second vestibule was equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits. 8 And the third vestibule was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed. 9 And the porch of the gateway near the porch of the gate was eight cubits, and the portals were two cubits, and the porch of the gate was within. 10 And the vestibule of the gate in front were three on one side and three on the other side, and there was one measure to the three, there was one measure to the porches on this side and on that side. 11 And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway to be ten cubits, and the breadth of the gateway to be thirteen cubits. 12 And the area in front of the vestibules was gathered to one cubit * on this side and on that side, and the vestibule was six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13 And he measured the gate from the wall of the vestibule unto the wall of the other vestibule; the breadth was twenty-five cubits, this one gate was over against the other gate. 14 And the open space of the porch of the gate was sixty cubits; the gate had * twenty vestibules all around, 15 and the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits. 16 And there were secret windows on the vestibules and on the porches inside the gate of the courtyard all around, and in the same manner there were windows to the porches all around inside, and on the porch there were palm trees on this side and on that side. 17 And he brought me into the inner courtyard, and, behold, there were chambers, and peristyles all around the courtyard; thirty chambers were in the ranges of columns. 18 And the colonnades were along the side of the gates, along the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle. 19 And he measured the breadth of the courtyard, from the open space of the outer gate unto the inner court, unto the open space of the gate looking outwards, one hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward. And he brought me up to the north. 20 And behold a gate looking northwards belonging to the outer courtyard, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth, 21 and the vestibule, three on this side and three on that side, and the doorpost, and its porch, and the palm trees thereof, and they were like to the measures of the gate that looks eastward, her length thereof was fifty cubits, and her breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits. 22 And her windows, and the porches, and her palm trees, were like the dimensions of the gate looking eastward, and they went up to it by seven steps, and the porches were inside. 23 And there was a gate to the inner courtyard looking toward the north gate, like the gate that looks toward the east, and he measured the courtyard from gate to gate, it was one hundred cubits. 24 And he led me towards the south, and behold there was a gate looking southwards, and he measured it, and the vestibules, and the posts, and its porches, according to these measuerments. 25 And its windows and its porches all around were according to the windows of the porch; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits. 26 And it had seven steps, and porches inside, and it had palm-trees upon the posts, one on one side, and one on the other side. 27 And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner courtyard southward, and he measured the courtyard from gate to gate, one hundred cubits was the breadth of it southward. 28 And he brought me into the inner courtyard of the south gate, and he measured the gate according to these measurements; 29 and the vestibules, and the posts, and the porches, according to these measurements; and there were windows to it and to the porches all around; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 31 And there was a porch to the outer court, and there were palm-trees to the post thereof, and eight steps. 32 And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward, and he measured it according to these measurements, 33 and the vestibules, and the posts, and the porches according to these measurements; and there were windows to it, and porches all around; the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it was twenty-five cubits. 34 And there were porches opening into the inner courtyard, and palm-trees on the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps. 35 And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measurements; 36 and the vestibules, and the posts, and the porches; and it had windows all around, and it had its porches, the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it was twenty-five cubits. 37 And its porches were toward the outer courtyard; and there were palm-trees to the posts on this side and on that side; and it had eight steps.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “in width”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and another one cubit on the border of it”.

* Codex Vaticanus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omit: “twenty”. Codex Alexandrinus reads: “twenty-five”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Ch. 40

38 * Her chambers and her doorways, and her porches at the second gate served as a drain, 39 so that they might slay in it the sin-offerings, and the sin-offerings of ommission. 40 And behind the overflow of the whole burnt offerings at the north gate, two tables eastward behind the second porch; and behind the porch of the gate two tables eastward. 41 Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the sacrifical victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices. 42 And there were four tables of carved stone for the whole burnt offerings, the breadth of them was a cubit and a half, and the length of them two cubits and a half, and their height was a cubit. On them they shall place the instruments with which they slay there the whole burnt offerings and the animal sacrifices. 43 And they shall have a border of carved stone all around within, and over the tables above they shall have roofs for covering them from the rain and from the * heat. 44 And he brought me into the inner court, and behold there were two chambers in the inner courtyard one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north. 45 And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south is for the priests that keep guard of the house. 46 And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep guard of the altar; they are the sons of Saddouk, those of the tribe of Levi, who draw near to the Lord to serve Him. 47 And he measured the courtyard, the length whereof was one hundred cubits, and the breadth one hundred cubits, on her four parts; and the altar opposite the house. 48 And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the doorway was fourteen cubits, and the side-pieces of the door of the porch were three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side. 49 And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth was twelve cubits; and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars to the porch, one on this side and one on the other side.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 41

And he brought me into the temple, and he measured the porch, six cubits the breadth on one side, 2 and six cubits the width of the porch on the other side. And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side; and he measured the length of it as forth cubits, and the breadth of it as twenty cubits. 3 And he went into the inner courtyard, and measured the post of the doorway as two cubits, and the doorway as six cubits; and the side-pieces of the doorway as seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side. 4 And he measured the length of the doors as forty cubits, and the width of them as twenty cubits, towards the front of the temple. And he said, This is the Holy of Holies.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 41

And he brought me into the temple, and he measured the porch, six cubits the breadth on one side, 2 and six cubits the width of the porch on the other side. And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side; and he measured the length of it as forth cubits, and the breadth of it as twenty cubits. 3 And he went into the inner courtyard, and measured the post of the doorway as two cubits, and the doorway as six cubits; and the side-pieces of the doorway as seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side. 4 And he measured the length of the doors as forty cubits, and the width of them as twenty cubits, towards the front of the temple. And he said, This is the Holy of Holies. 5 And he measured the wall of the house as six cubits, and the breadth of each side as four cubits all around. 6 And the sides, side upon side, were thirty and three, twice, and there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides all around, that they should be for those who take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house. 7 And the breadth of the upper one of the sides was made according to the addition from the wall to the upper one all around the house so that it is enlarged above and they might go up from the lower parts to the upper part and from the middle part to the third story. 8 And the foundation of the house was a summit all around, each space of the sides was equal to a reed, a space of six cubits; 9 and the breadth of the wall of each side from the outside was five cubits, and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house, 10 and between the chambers were a width of twenty cubits; the circumference of the house all around. 11 And the doors of the chambers were toward the space left by the one door that looked northward, and there was one door southward; and the breadth of the remaining open space was five cubits in extent all around. 12 And the partition wall in front of the remaining space, toward the west, was seventy cubits in breadth; the width of the partition wall was five cubits all around, and the length of it ninety cubits. 13 And he measured opposite the house a length of one hundred cubits, and the remaining spaces and the partitions; and the walls thereof were in length one hundred cubits. 14 And the width before the face of the * house, and the remaining spaces opposite it were one hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the partition before the face of the space that were left by the back parts of that house; and the spaces left on this side and on that side were in length one hundred cubits. And the temple and the corners and the outer porch were paneled. 16 And the windows were latticed, narrow openings all around the three stories, so as to look through, and the house and the areas nearby were planked with wood all around, and so was the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window shutters folded back in three parts for one to look through. 17 And next to the inside *, and to the outside, and upon the entire wall all around inside and outside, 18 were carved cheroubin and palm-trees between cherubs and cherubs, and each cherub had two faces. 19 The face of a man was toward one palm-tree on this side and on that side, and the face of a lion toward another palm-tree on this side and on that side; the whole house was carved all around. 20 From the floor up to the ceiling were cheroubins and palm-trees carved. 21 And the holy place and the temple opened on four sides; before the face of the holy places, the appearance was like the look of 22 a wooden altar, the height of it was three cubits, and the length of it was two cubits, and the breadth of it was two cubits; and it had horns, and the base of it and the walls of it were of wood, and He said to me, This is the table, which is before the face of the Lord. And the temple had two doorways, 23 and the sanctuary 24 had two doorways, with two turning doors apiece; one had two leaves, and the second door had two panels. 25 And there was carved work upon them, and cheroubins on the doors of the temple, and palm-trees like the carving of the sanctuary; and there were seasoned wooden planks facing the porch outside. 26 And there were secret windows; and he measured from this side to the other side, to the ceiling of the porch, and to the sides of the house that were joined together.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “temple”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “of the house”.

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EZEKIEL (LXX)

Chapter 42

And He brought me into the * inner courtyard eastward, opposite the northern gate, and He brought me in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition, 2 one hundred cubits in length toward the north, and the breadth of it was fifty * cubits, 3 engraved accordingly like the gates of the inner courtyard, and arranged accordingly like the peristyles of the outer courtyard, with triple porticos facing one another. 4 And opposite the chambers was a walkway ten cubits in breadth, the length reaching to one hundred cubits; and their doorways were northward. 5 And the upper walkways were in like manner; because the peristyle projected from it, even from the range of columns below, and there was a space between; so were there a peristyle and a space between, and so were there two porticos. 6 For they were triple, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the * outer ones; therefore they protruded from the ones underneath and the middle ones from the ground. 7 And there was light outside, corresponding to the chambers of the outer courtyard looking opposite the northern chambers, the length of them was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner courtyard was fifty cubits, and they were the ones that faced these others; the whole was one hundred cubits. 9 And there were doors of these chambers for an entrance toward the east, so that one should enter through them from the outer courtyard, 10 like the light opening at the start of the walkway. And the south parts were facing the south, facing the space remaining open, and facing the partition, and also the chambers. 11 And the walkway was before their face, according to the measurements of the chambers toward the north, both according to the length of them, and according to the breadth of them, and according to all their exits, * and according to all their curves, and according to their light openings, and according to their doorways. 12 So were the measures of the chambers toward the south, and according to the doorways at the start of the walkway, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them. 13 And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, that are facing the void areas, these are the chambers of THE HOLY, wherein the priests, the sons of Saddouk, who draw near to the Lord, shall eat the holy of holy things, and there shall they place the holy of holy things, and the sacrifice, and the sin-offerings, and the sin-offerings for sins committed out of ignorance, because the place is holy. 14 None shall go in there except the priests, and they shall not go out from THE HOLY into the outer courtyard so that those who draw near to Me may continually be holy, and may not touch their vestments in which they minister, with defilement, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they touch the people.15 And the measurement of the house from the inside was completed. And He brought me out by way of the gate that looks eastward, and He measured the plan of the house all around in its arrangement.
16 And He stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. 17 And He turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. 18 And He turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. 19 And He turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed. 20 The four sides He measured by the same reed, and He marked out the house and the circumference of the parts all around, a space of five hundred cubits eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between THE HOLY and between the outer wall, that belonged to the design of the house.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “outer”.

* Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus omit: “cubits”.

* Codex Alexandrinus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “inner”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omits: “and according to all their curves”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 43

And He led me to the gate looking eastward, and brought me out. 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came by way of the gate that looks to the east, and there was a sound of an army, like the sound of many repeating their shouts, and the ground shined forth like brilliance from the glory all around. 3 And the vision which I saw was like the vision which I saw when I went in to anoint the city, and the vision of the chariot which I saw was like the vision which I saw by the river Hobar, and I fell upon my face. 4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house, by the way of the gate looking eastward. 5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner courtyard, and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory. 6 And I stood, and behold there was a voice out of the house of One speaking to me, and the Man stood next me, 7 and He said to me, O son of man, thou have seen the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, in which My name shall live in the midst of the house of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more profane My holy name, they and their leaders, by their fornication, or by the murders of their leaders in the midst of them; 8 when they place My doorway by their doorway, and My thresholds next to their thresholds, and they rendered My wall as if Mine and theirs were conjoined, and they profaned My holy name with their lawless deeds, which they committed; and I destroyed them in My wrath and by slaughter. 9 And now, let them thrust away from Me their fornication, and the murders of their leaders, and I will live in the midst of them forever. 10 And thou, O son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and show its appearance and the arrangement of it. 11 And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have done. And thou shall describe the house, * and its exists, * and its foundation and thou shalt make known to them all its ordinances, and all its regulations, and describe them before them, and they shall keep all My commandments, and all My ordinances, and they shall do them. 12 And the description of the house is thus: On the top of the mountain; all its boundaries all around; the holies of holies *.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Theodotion’s LXX text, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and its layout”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Aquila’s, Symmachus’ and Theodotion’s LXX texts, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and its entrances”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Theodotion’s LXX text, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “this is the law of the house”.
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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 43

And He led me to the gate looking eastward, and brought me out. 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came by way of the gate that looks to the east, and there was a sound of an army, like the sound of many repeating their shouts, and the ground shined forth like brilliance from the glory all around. 3 And the vision which I saw was like the vision which I saw when I went in to anoint the city, and the vision of the chariot which I saw was like the vision which I saw by the river Hobar, and I fell upon my face. 4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house, by the way of the gate looking eastward. 5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner courtyard, and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory. 6 And I stood, and behold there was a voice out of the house of One speaking to me, and the Man stood next me, 7 and He said to me, O son of man, thou have seen the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, in which My name shall live in the midst of the house of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more profane My holy name, they and their leaders, by their fornication, or by the murders of their leaders in the midst of them; 8 when they place My doorway by their doorway, and My thresholds next to their thresholds, and they rendered My wall as if Mine and theirs were conjoined, and they profaned My holy name with their lawless deeds, which they committed; and I destroyed them in My wrath and by slaughter. 9 And now, let them thrust away from Me their fornication, and the murders of their leaders, and I will live in the midst of them forever.
10 And thou, O son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and show its appearance and the arrangement of it. 11 And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have done. And thou shall describe the house, * and its exists, * and its foundation and thou shalt make known to them all its ordinances, and all its regulations, and describe them before them, and they shall keep all My commandments, and all My ordinances, and they shall do them. 12 And the description of the house is thus: On the top of the mountain; all its boundaries all around; the holies of holies *. 13 And these are the measurements of the altar by the cubit of a cubit and a handbreath, the cavity shall be a cubit deep, and a cubit shall be the breadth, and the rim on the lip of it shall be about a span all around. And this shall be the height of the altar 14 from the bottom at its commencement of the hollow part to this great seat of atonment, from beneath was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit; and from the smaller seat of atonement to the great seat of atonement, four cubits, and its breadth was a cubit. 15 And the altar-hearth was four cubits, and from the altar-hearth and above the horns a cubit. 16 And the altar-hearth was the length of twelve cubits, by twelve cubits in breadth, square upon its four parts. 17 And the seat of atonement was fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen cubits in breadth on its four parts; and its rim all around is encircled by it, of half a cubit; and its circumference is a cubit all around, and its steps looking eastward. 18 And He said to me, O son of man, thus saith * the Lord, the God of Israel, These are the ordinances of the altar in the day of its being made, to offer upon it whole burnt offerings, and to pour blood upon it. 19 And thou shall give to the priests, the Levites, from the seed of Saddouk, who draw near to Me, saith the Lord God, to minister to Me, a calf from the heard for a sin offering. 20 And they shall take of its blood, and shall place it on the four horns of the altar, and upon the four corners of the seat of atonement, and upon the base all around, and they shall * make atonement for it. 21 And they shall take the calf of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the separate place of the house, outside THE HOLY. 22 And on the second day they shall take two kids of the goats without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall make atonement for the altar, as they made atonement with the calf. 23 And after they have finished the atonement, they shall bring an unblemished calf from the herd, and an unblemished ram from the sheep. 24 And ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and shall offer them up as whole burnt offerings to the Lord. 25 For seven days shall thou offer a kid every day for a sin offering, and a calf from the herd, and a ram from the sheep; they shall offer them unblemished 26 for seven days, and they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall cleanse it, and they shall * consecrate it. 27 * And it shall come to pass from the eighth day and beyond, * that the priests shall make your whole burnt offerings upon the altar, and those for your salvation. And I shall accept you, saith the Lord *.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Theodotion’s LXX text, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and its layout”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Aquila’s, Symmachus’ and Theodotion’s LXX texts, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and its entrances”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Theodotion’s LXX text, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “this is the law of the house”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord God”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “cleanse and…”

* Literally: “fill their hands”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “And when their days are completed…”

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “that”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “THE LORD”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “God”.

[Panayioti]

Ezekiel (LXX)

And He turned me back by the way of the outer gate of THE HOLY that looks eastward, and it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no one shall pass through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel shall enter through it, and it shall be shut. 3 Therefore, the leader shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by his way. 4 And He brought me in by the way of the gate that looks northward, opposite the house and I looked, and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory, and I fell upon my face. 5 And the Lord said to me, O son of man, assign it upon thy heart, and see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say to thee, according to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the regulations thereof; and thou shall set thy heart to the entrance of the house, according to all its exits, in all the holy places. 6 And thou shall say to the embittering house, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith * the Lord God, Let it suffice you to have committed all your lawless deeds, O house of Israel! 7 that ye have brought in sons of foreigners, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My holy places, and to profane them, when ye offered bread, fat, and blood, and ye transgressed My covenant by all your lawless deeds, 8 and ye appointed others to keep guard in My holy places. 9 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, No foreigner’s son, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into My holy places, of all the * sons of foreigners that are in the midst of the house of Israel.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omits: “sons of”.

[Panayioti]

Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 44

And He turned me back by the way of the outer gate of THE HOLY that looks eastward, and it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no one shall pass through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel shall enter through it, and it shall be shut. 3 Therefore, the leader shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by his way.
4 And He brought me in by the way of the gate that looks northward, opposite the house and I looked, and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory, and I fell upon my face. 5 And the Lord said to me, O son of man, assign it upon thy heart, and see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say to thee, according to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the regulations thereof; and thou shall set thy heart to the entrance of the house, according to all its exits, in all the holy places. 6 And thou shall say to the embittering house, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith * the Lord God, Let it suffice you to have committed all your lawless deeds, O house of Israel! 7 that ye have brought in sons of foreigners, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My holy places, and to profane them, when ye offered bread, fat, and blood, and ye transgressed My covenant by all your lawless deeds, 8 and ye appointed others to keep guard in My holy places. 9 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, No foreigner’s son, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into My holy places, of all the * sons of foreigners that are in the midst of the house of Israel.
10 But as for the Levites, who departed far from Me when Israel went astray from Me after their imaginations, even they shall bear their iniquity. 11 And they shall minister in My holy places as door-keepers at the gates of the house, and serving * the house; they shall slay the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifies for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them. 12 Because they ministered to them before the face of their idols, and it became to the house of Israel for a punishment of iniquity, therefore, have I lifted up My hand against them, saith * the Lord God *. 13 And they shall not draw near to Me to officiate as a priest for Me, * nor to approach the holy things of the sons of Israel, nor to approach My Holy of Holies, and they shall bear their reproach for the delusion in which they were led astray. 14 Yet I shall appoint them to safeguard the house in all its services, and for all that they shall do. 15 The priests, the Levites, the sons of Saddouk, who safeguarded My HOLY when the house of Israel when astray from Me, these shall draw near to Me to minister to Me, and shall stand before My face, to offer sacrifice to Me, the fat and the blood, saith * the Lord God. 16 These shall enter into My holy places, and these shall approach My table, to minister to Me, and they shall protect My guard. 17 And it shall come to pass, when they enter the gates of the inner courtyard that they shall put on linen vestments, and they shall not put on wool garments when they minister at the gate of the inner courtyard. 18 And they shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and shall have linen undergarments upon their loins, and they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes them to sweat. 19 And when they go out into the outer courtyard to the people, they shall take off their vestments, those in which they minister, and they shall place them in the chambers of THE HOLY, and shall put on other vestments, and they shall not bless the people in their own vestments. 20 And they shall not shave their heads, nor shall they pull out their hair; with a covering they shall cover their heads. 21 And no priest shall drink any wine when they enter into the inner courtyard. 22 And they shall not take for themselves as a wife a widow, or a divorcee, but only a virgin from out of the seed of * Israel, but if there should be a widow of a preist, they shall take her as a wife. 23 And they shall teach my people to distinguish between the holy and the profane, and they shall make known to them the difference between the unclean and the clean. 24 And they shall attend over a case of blood to decide it; they shall rightly observe My ordinances, and judge My judgments, and they shall keep My statutes and My commandments in all My feasts, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths. 25 And over the departed soul of a person they shall not enter or they shall be defiled, but a priest may only defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister who did not become a man’s wife. 26 And after he has been cleansed, he shall count off seven days for himself. 27 And on whatever day they shall enter into the inner courtyard to minister in THE HOLY, they shall offer an atonement, saith * the Lord God. 28 And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance, and no possession shall be given to them among the sons of Israel, because I am their possession. 29 And they shall eat the offerings, and the sin-offerings, and the ignorance-offerings, and everything set apart in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first-fruits of all things, and the first-born of all animals and all offerings, of all your first-fruits there shall be a share for the priests, and ye shall give your earliest produce to the priest, so as to place a blessing upon your houses. 31 And the priests shall eat no bird or cattle that have died a natural death or that were taken by wild beasts.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omits: “sons of”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “in”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Codex Alexandrinus and Theodotion’s LXX text add: “and they shall bear their sin”. Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and they shall bear their lawless deeds”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “nor to approach all the holy things of THE HOLY”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “the house of”.

* Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

[Panayioti]

Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 44

And He turned me back by the way of the outer gate of THE HOLY that looks eastward, and it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no one shall pass through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel shall enter through it, and it shall be shut. 3 Therefore, the leader shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by his way.
4 And He brought me in by the way of the gate that looks northward, opposite the house and I looked, and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory, and I fell upon my face. 5 And the Lord said to me, O son of man, assign it upon thy heart, and see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say to thee, according to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the regulations thereof; and thou shall set thy heart to the entrance of the house, according to all its exits, in all the holy places. 6 And thou shall say to the embittering house, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith * the Lord God, Let it suffice you to have committed all your lawless deeds, O house of Israel! 7 that ye have brought in sons of foreigners, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My holy places, and to profane them, when ye offered bread, fat, and blood, and ye transgressed My covenant by all your lawless deeds, 8 and ye appointed others to keep guard in My holy places. 9 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, No foreigner’s son, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into My holy places, of all the * sons of foreigners that are in the midst of the house of Israel.
10 But as for the Levites, who departed far from Me when Israel went astray from Me after their imaginations, even they shall bear their iniquity. 11 And they shall minister in My holy places as door-keepers at the gates of the house, and serving * the house; they shall slay the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifies for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them. 12 Because they ministered to them before the face of their idols, and it became to the house of Israel for a punishment of iniquity, therefore, have I lifted up My hand against them, saith * the Lord God *. 13 And they shall not draw near to Me to officiate as a priest for Me, * nor to approach the holy things of the sons of Israel, nor to approach My Holy of Holies, and they shall bear their reproach for the delusion in which they were led astray. 14 Yet I shall appoint them to safeguard the house in all its services, and for all that they shall do. 15 The priests, the Levites, the sons of Saddouk, who safeguarded My HOLY when the house of Israel when astray from Me, these shall draw near to Me to minister to Me, and shall stand before My face, to offer sacrifice to Me, the fat and the blood, saith * the Lord God. 16 These shall enter into My holy places, and these shall approach My table, to minister to Me, and they shall protect My guard. 17 And it shall come to pass, when they enter the gates of the inner courtyard that they shall put on linen vestments, and they shall not put on wool garments when they minister at the gate of the inner courtyard. 18 And they shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and shall have linen undergarments upon their loins, and they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes them to sweat. 19 And when they go out into the outer courtyard to the people, they shall take off their vestments, those in which they minister, and they shall place them in the chambers of THE HOLY, and shall put on other vestments, and they shall not bless the people in their own vestments. 20 And they shall not shave their heads, nor shall they pull out their hair; with a covering they shall cover their heads. 21 And no priest shall drink any wine when they enter into the inner courtyard. 22 And they shall not take for themselves as a wife a widow, or a divorcee, but only a virgin from out of the seed of * Israel, but if there should be a widow of a preist, they shall take her as a wife. 23 And they shall teach my people to distinguish between the holy and the profane, and they shall make known to them the difference between the unclean and the clean. 24 And they shall attend over a case of blood to decide it; they shall rightly observe My ordinances, and judge My judgments, and they shall keep My statutes and My commandments in all My feasts, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths. 25 And over the departed soul of a person they shall not enter or they shall be defiled, but a priest may only defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister who did not become a man’s wife. 26 And after he has been cleansed, he shall count off seven days for himself. 27 And on whatever day they shall enter into the inner courtyard to minister in THE HOLY, they shall offer an atonement, saith * the Lord God. 28 And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance, and no possession shall be given to them among the sons of Israel, because I am their possession. 29 And they shall eat the offerings, and the sin-offerings, and the ignorance-offerings, and everything set apart in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first-fruits of all things, and the first-born of all animals and all offerings, of all your first-fruits there shall be a share for the priests, and ye shall give your earliest produce to the priest, so as to place a blessing upon your houses. 31 And the priests shall eat no bird or cattle that have died a natural death or that were taken by wild beasts.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omits: “sons of”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “in”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Codex Alexandrinus and Theodotion’s LXX text add: “and they shall bear their sin”. Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and they shall bear their lawless deeds”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “nor to approach all the holy things of THE HOLY”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Codex rescriptus Cryptoferratensis and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “the house of”.

* Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

[Panayioti]

Ezekiel 46 (LXX)

Chapter 45

And when ye are measureing out the land for inheritance, ye shall set apart the first-fruits of land for the Lord, a holy portion from the land, twenty-five thousand in its length, and its breadth * twenty thousand; it shall be holy in all its borders all around. 2 And there shall be from out of this a sanctuary, five hundred reeds in length by five hundred in breadth, a square all around, and there shall be an open space beyond this of fifty cubits all around. 3 And from out of this measurement thou shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand and a breadth of twenty thousand and in it shall be the sanctuary, the Holy of Holies. 4 * From the land shall be given as a portion for the priests that minister in * THE HOLY, and it shall be for them that draw near to minister to the Lord, and it shall be to them a place for houses set apart for their sanctification. 5 The length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand, and shall belong to the Levites who minister in the house; they shall have cities to live in for a possession.
6 And ye shall appoint for the possession of the city five thousand for the breadth, and the length twenty-five thousand; after the manner of the first-fruits of the holy portion, they shall be for all the house of Israel.
7 And the leader shall have a portion out of this, and from this there shall be a portion for the first-fruits of THE HOLY for the possession of the city, in front of the first-fruits of THE HOLY, and in front of the possession of the city the parts towards the sea and from the parts towards the sea to the east and the length shall be equal to one of the parts of the borders toward the sea and the length shall be to the eastern borders of the land. 8 And he shall have it for a possession in Israel, and the leaders of Israel shall no longer oppress My people, and the house of Israel shall inherit the land according to their tribes.
9 Thus saith * the Lord God, Let it suffice you, ye leaders of Israel; remove injustice and misery, and do what is just and right; take away oppression from My people, saith * the Lord God. 10 Ye shall have a just balance, and a just measure, and a just choenix for measure. 11 And in like manner there shall be one choenix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the gomor shall be the choenix, and the tenth of the gomor shall be in fair proportion to the gomor. * 12 And the weights shall be twenty oboli; five shekels shall be fifteen shekels and ten and fifty shekels shall be one mina for you. 13 And this is the first-fruit which ye shall set apart; a sixth part of a gomor of wheat, and the sixth part of it shall consist of an oiphi from the kor of barley. 14 And ye shall give as the appointed measure of olive oil a cup of olive oil out of ten cups; for ten cups are a gomor. 15 And one sheep from out of ten sheep, as an oblation from all the families of Israel for sacrifices and whole burnt offerings, and for a sacrifice for deliverance, to make atonement for you, saith * the Lord God. 16 And all the people shall give this first-fruit to the leader of Israel. 17 And through the leader shall be offered the whole burnt offerings and the other offerings, and the drink-offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the Sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel; he shall offer the sin-offerings, and the other offering, and the whole burnt offerings, and the offerings for deliverance, to make atonement for the house of Israel. 18 Thus saith * the Lord God, In the first month, on the first day of the month, ye shall take a calf without blemish from out of the herd, to make atonement for * THE HOLY. 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the atonement, and confer it upon the thresholds of the house, and upon the four corners of the temple, and upon the altar, and upon the thresholds of the gate of the inner courtyard. 20 And thus shall thou do in the seventh month, on the first day of the month thou shall take a portion from each one * and ye shall make atonement for the house. 21 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the feast of the Passover; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread. 22 And the leader shall offer that day a calf for a sin-offering for himself, * and the house, and for all the people of the land. 23 And for the seven days of the feast he shall make as whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven calves and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin-offering, and this shall be offered as a sacrifice. 24 And he shall prepare a cake for the calf, and a cake for the ram, and a hin of olive oil for the cake. 25 And in the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, thou shall sacrifice during the feast in the same manner for seven days, as was sacrificed the sin-offerings, and likewise the whole burnt offerings, and likewise the * manaa, and likewise the olive oil.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “ten thousand”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Aquila’s, Symmachus’, and Theodotion’s LXX texts, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “That which is holy”. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “That which shall be made holy”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the holy places”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”. Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “And the weights shall be twenty oboli; five shekels shall be twenty-five shekels and fifteen shekels shall be one mina for you”.

* Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “the Lord”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the holy places”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Symmachus’, and Theodotion’s LXX texts, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “for those who sin through ignorance (without thinking Complutesian) and inadvertently”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omit the phrase: “and the house”.

* Or grain-offering.
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3 more chapter to go and then on to 4 Makk. Almost done. - Peter