 Chapter 25 through 30 of the Book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are public domain. For more information or to volunteer, visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapter 25 through 30 of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter 25 There is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face unto the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them, and thou hast said to the sons of Ammon, Hear ye a word of the Lord Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of thy saying, Aha, to my sanctuary, because it hath been polluted, and unto the ground of Israel, because it hath been desolate, and unto the house of Judah, because they have gone into a removal, therefore lo, I am giving thee to sons of the east for a possession. And they set their towers in thee, and have placed in thee their tabernacles. They eat thy fruit, and they drink thy milk. And I have given Raba for a habitation of camels, and the sons of Ammon for the crouching of a flock, and ye have known that I am Jehovah. For thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of thy clapping the hand, and of thy stamping with the foot, and thou rejoicest with all thy despite in soul against the ground of Israel, therefore lo, I have stretched out my hand against thee, and have given thee for a portion to nations, and I have cut thee off from the peoples, and caused thee to perish from the lands. I destroy thee, and thou hast known that I am Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of the saying of Moab and Seer, lo, as all the nations is the house of Judah, therefore lo, I am opening the shoulder of Moab from the cities, from his cities, from his frontier, the beauty of the land, Beth Jashimoth, Ba'al-Mion, and Keriaf-A'im, to the sons of the east, with the sons of Ammon, and I have given it for a possession so that the sons of Ammon are not remembered among nations. And in Moab I do judgments, and they have known that I am Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of the doings of Edom in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, ye, they are very guilty, and they have taken vengeance on them. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, I have stretched out my hand against Edom, and I have cut off from it man and beast, and given it up, a waste from Timon, even to Dedan. By sword they do fall, and I have given my vengeance on Edom, by the hand of my people Israel, and they have done in Edom according to my anger, and according to my fury, and they have known my vengeance, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of the doings of the Philistines in vengeance, and they take vengeance with despite in soul to destroy the enmity age during. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I have cut off the Cherithim, and destroyed the remnant of the Haven of the Sea, and done upon them great vengeance with furious reproofs, and they have known that I am Jehovah in my giving out my vengeance on them. Chapter 26 And it cometh to pass in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, there hath been a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, because that tire hath said of Jerusalem, Aha, she hath been broken, the doors of the peoples, she hath turned round unto me, I am filled, she hath been laid waste. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am against thee, O tire, and have caused to come up against thee many nations, as the sea causeth its billows to come up, and they have destroyed the walls of tire, and they have broken down her towers, and I have scraped her dust from her, and made her for a clear place of a rock, a spreading place of nets she is in the midst of the sea, for I, I have spoken, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and she hath been for a spoil to nations, and her daughters who are in the field, by sword they are slain, and they have known that I am Jehovah. For, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am bringing in unto tire Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, from the north, a king of kings with horse, and with chariot, and with horsemen, even an assembly, and a numerous people. Thy daughters in the field by sword he slayeth, and he hath made against thee a fort, and hath poured out against thee a mount, and hath raised against thee a buckler, and a battering ram before him he placeth against thy walls, and thy towers he breaketh by his weapons. From the abundance of his horses cover thee doth their dust, from the noise of horsemen and wheel and rider, shake do thy walls in his coming into thy gates, as the coming into a city broken up. With hoofs of his horses he treadeth, all thine outplaces, thy people by sword he doth slay, and the pillars of thy strength to the earth come down, and they have spoiled thy wealth, and they have plundered thy merchandise, and they have thrown down thy walls, and thy desirable houses they break down, and thy stones, and thy wood, and thy dust in the midst of the waters they place. And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, and the voice of thy harps is heard no more. And I have given thee up for a clear place of a rock, a spreading place of nets thou art. Thou art not built up any more, for I, Jehovah, I have spoken an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, too tired, do not, from the noise of thy fall, in the groaning of the wounded, in the slaying of the slaughter in thy midst, the aisles shake, and come down from off their thrones, have all princes of the sea, and they have turned aside their robes, and their embroidered garments strip off, trembling they put on, on the earth they sit, and they have trembled every moment, and they have been astonished at thee, and have lifted up for thee a lamentation, and said to thee, How hast thou perished, that art inhabited from the seas, the praised city that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants who put their terror on all her inhabitants? Now they tremble, is it not the day of thy fall? Troubled have been the aisles that are in the sea at thine outgoing. For thus said the Lord Jehovah, in my making thee a city wasted, like cities that have not been inhabited, in bringing up against thee the deep, then covered thee have the great waters. And I have caused thee to go down, with those going down to the pit, unto the people of old, and I have caused thee to dwell in the land, the lower parts in wastes of old, with those going down to the pit, so that thou art not inhabited, and I have given beauty in the land of the living, wastes I do make thee, and thou art not, and thou art sought, and art not found any more, to the age and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 27 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, and thou, Son of Man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and thou hast said to Tyre, O dweller on the entrances of the sea, merchant of the peoples unto many aisles, thus said the Lord Jehovah, O Tyre, thou hast said, I am the perfection of beauty, in the heart of the seas are thy borders, thy builders have perfected thy beauty, of furs of Seneer they have built to thee all thy double-boarded ships, of cedars of Lebanon they have taken to make a mast for thee, of oaks of Bashan they have made thine oars, thy bench they have made of ivory, a branch of Asurim from aisles of Chitim, of fine linen with embroidery from Egypt have been thy sail, to be to thee for an ensign of blue and purple from aisles of Elisha have been thy covering, inhabitants of Zidun and Arvaad have been rowers to thee, thy wise men, O Tyre, have been in thee, they are thy pilots, elders of Gabal and its wise men have been in thee, strengthening thy breach, all ships of the sea and their mariners have been in thee, to trade with thy merchandise, Persian and Lod and Foote have been in thy forces, thy men of war, shield and helmet they hung up in thee, they have given out thine honor, the sons of Arvaad and thy force are on thy walls round about, and short swordsmen in thy towers have been, their shields they have hung up on thy walls round about, they have perfected thy beauty, Tarshish is thy merchant, because of the abundance of all wealth, for silver, iron, tin and lead, they have given out thy remnants, Javan, Tubal and Meshek, they are thy merchants, for persons of men and vessels of brass, they have given out thy merchandise, they of the house of Togerma, for horses and riding steeds and mules, they have given out thy remnants, sons of Dadan are thy merchants, many aisles are the mart of thy hand, horns of ivory and ebony they sent back thy reward, Aram is thy merchant, because of the abundance of thy works, for emerald, purple and embroidery, and fine linen and coral and agate, they have given out thy remnants, Judah and the land of Israel, they are thy merchants, for wheat of Mineth and Panag, and honey and oil and balm, they have given out thy merchandise, Damascus is thy merchant, for the abundance of thy works, because of the abundance of all wealth, for wine of Helban and Whitewool, Vidan and Javan go about with thy remnants, they have given shining iron, kasha and cane, in thy merchandise it have been, Dadan is thy merchant, for clothes of freedom, for riding Arabia and all princes of Qidar, they are the traders of thy hand, for lambs and rams and hegoats, in these thy merchants, merchants of Sheba and Rahama, they are thy merchants, for the chief of all spices, and for every precious stone and gold, they have given out thy remnants, Haran and Kana and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Ashur, Chilmad are thy merchants, they are thy merchants for perfect things, for wrappings of blue and embroidery, and for treasuries of rich apparel, with cords bound and girded, for thy merchandise, ships of Tarshish are thy double walls of thy merchandise, and thou art filled and honored greatly in the heart of the seas, into great waters have they brought thee, those rowing thee, the east wind hath broken thee, in the heart of the seas, thy wealth and thy remnants, thy merchandise, thy mariners and thy pilots, strengtheners of thy breach, and the traders of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war who are in thee, and in all of thine assembly that is in thy midst, fall into the heart of the seas, in the day of thy fall, at the voice of the cry of thy pilots, shake to the suburbs, and come down from their ships, have all handling an oar, mariners, all the pilots of the sea, on the land they stand, and have sounded for thee with their voice, and cried bitterly, and caused dust to go up on their heads, in ashes they do roll themselves, and they have made for thee baldness, and they have girded on sackcloth, and they have wept for thee, in bitterness of soul, a bitter mourning, and lifted up for thee have their sons a lamentation, and they have lamented over thee, who is as tired as the cut-off one in the midst of the sea, with the outgoing of thy remnants from the seas, thou hast filled many peoples with the abundance of thy riches, and thy merchandise, thou hast made rich things of earth, the time of thy being broken by the seas, and the depths of the waters, thy merchandise, and all thy assembly, and thy midst have fallen, all inhabitants of the isles have been astonished at thee, and their kings have been sore afraid, they have been troubled in countenance, merchants among the peoples have shrieked for thee, wastes thou hast been, and thou art not to the age. Chapter 28 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because thy heart hath been high, and thou dost say, A God I am, the habitation of God I have inhabited, in the heart of the seas, and thou art man and not God, and thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God. Lo, thou art wiser than Daniel, no hidden thing have they concealed from thee, by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast made for thee wealth, and makest gold and silver in thy treasuries, by the abundance of thy wisdom through thy merchandise, thou hast multiplied thy wealth, and highest thy heart through thy wealth. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because of thy giving out thy heart as the heart of God, therefore lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, the terrible of the nations, and they have drawn out their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they have pierced thy brightness to destruction they bring thee down, thou dyest by the depths of the wounded in the heart of the seas. Thus thou really say, I am God before him who is slaying thee, and thou art man and not God in the hand of him who is piercing thee, the depths of the uncircumcised, thou dyest by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the King of Tyre, and thou hast said to him, thus said the Lord Jehovah, thou art sealing up a measurement full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, in Eden, the Garden of God, thou hast been. Every precious stone thy covering, ruby, topaz, and diamond, barrel, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, the workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, in thee, in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared. Thou art an anointed cherub who is covering, and I have set thee in the holy Mount, God, thou hast been. In the midst of stones of fire, thou hast walked up and down. Perfect art thou in thy ways, from the day of thy being produced, till perversity have been found in thee. By the abundance of thy merchandise, they have filled thy midst with violence and thou dost sin, and I thrust thee from the Mount of God, and I destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. High hath been thy heart, because of thy beauty. Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom, because of thy brightness. On the earth I have cast thee, before kings I have set thee, to look on thee, from the abundance of thy iniquity. By the perversity of thy traffic, thou hast polluted thy sanctuaries, and I bring forth fire from thy midst. It hath devoured thee, and I make thee become ashes on the earth, before the eyes of all beholding thee, all knowing thee among the peoples, have been astonished at thee. Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not to the age. And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face unto Zidane, and prophesy concerning it, and thou hast said, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am against thee, O Zidane, and I have been honored in thy midst, and they have known that I am Jehovah, in my doing in her judgments, and I have been sanctified in her, and I have sent into her pestilence, and blood into her outplaces, the wounded hath been judged in her midst, by the sword upon her round about, and they have known that I am Jehovah, and there is no more to the house of Israel, a pricking briar, and painting thorn of all round about them, despising them, and they have known that I am the Lord Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, in my gathering the house of Israel, out of the peoples among whom they were scattered, I have been sanctified in them, before the eyes of the nations, and they have dwelt on their ground, that I gave to my servant to Jacob, and they have dwelt on it confidently, and builded houses and planted vineyards, and dwelt confidently in my doing judgments, on all those despising them round about, and they have known that I, Jehovah, am their God. Chapter 29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy concerning him, and concerning Egypt, all of it. Speak, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, who hath said, my flood is my own, and I, I have made it for myself, and I have put hooks in thy jaws, and I have caused the fish of thy floods to cleave to thy scales, and I have caused thee to come up from the midst of thy floods, and every fish of thy floods to thy scales doth cleave, and I have left thee in the wilderness, thou, and every fish of thy floods on the face of the field, thou dost fall, thou art not gathered nor assembled to the beast of the earth, and to the fowl of the heavens, I have given thee for food, and known have all inhabitants of Egypt that I am Jehovah, because of their being a staff of read to the house of Israel, in their taking hold of thee by thy hand, thou art crushed, and hast read to them all the shoulder, and in their leaning on thee, thou art broken, and hast caused all their thighs to stand. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am bringing in against thee a sword, and have cut off from thee man and beast, and the land of Egypt hath been for a desolation and a waste, and they have known that I am Jehovah, because he said, the flood is mine, and I made it. Therefore, lo, I am against thee, and against thy floods, and have given the land of Egypt for wastes, a waste, a desolation, from Migdal to Saini, and unto the border of Qash, not pass over into it doth a foot of man, yea, the foot of beast doth not pass into it, nor is it inhabited forty years, and I have made the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities in the midst of waste cities are a desolation forty years, and I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, and I have dispersed them through lands, but thus said the Lord Jehovah, at the end of forty years I gather the Egyptians out of the peoples wither they have been scattered, and I have turned back to the captivity of Egypt, and I have brought them back to the land of Paphros, to the land of their birth, and they have been there a low kingdom, of the kingdoms it is lowest, and it lifteth not up itself any more above the nations, and I have made them few, so as not to rule among nations, and it is no more to the house of Israel for a confidence bringing iniquity to remembrance by their turning after them, and they have known that I am the Lord Jehovah, and it cometh to pass in the twenty and seventh year, in the first month, in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me saying, Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, hath caused his force to serve a great service against Tyre, every head is bald, every shoulder peeled, and reward he had none, nor his force out of Tyre, for the service that he served against it. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am giving to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he hath taken away its door, and hath taken its foil, and taken its prey, and it hath been a reward to his force, his wage for which he labored, I have given to him the land of Egypt, in that they wrought for me an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. In that day I caused to shoot up a horn to the house of Israel, and to thee I give an opening of the mouth in their midst, and they have known that I am Jehovah. Chapter 30 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, How will ye ha for the day, for near is a day, near is a day to Jehovah, a day of clouds, the time of nations it is, and come in hath a sword to Egypt, and there hath been great pain and kush in the falling of the wounded in Egypt, and they have taken its store, and broken down have been its foundations, kush and foot and lude and all the mixture, and chube and the sons of the land of the Covenant, with them by sword do fall. Thus said Jehovah, and fallen have supporters of Egypt, and come down hath the arrogance of her strength, from Migdol to Saini, by sword they fall in her, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities are in the midst of wasted cities, and they have known that I am Jehovah, in my giving fire against Egypt, and broken have been all her helpers, in that day go forth do messengers from before me in ships, to trouble confident kush, and there hath been great pain among them, as the day of Egypt, for lo it hath come. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, he and his people with him, the terrible of nations, are brought in to destroy the land, and they have drawn their swords against Egypt, and have filled the land with the wounded, and I have made floods at dry place, and I have sold the land into the hand of evildoers, and I have made desolate the land, and its fullness by the hand of strangers. I, Jehovah, have spoken. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, and I have destroyed idols, and caused vain things to cease from Naph, and a prince of the land of Egypt, there is no more, and I give fear in the land of Egypt, and I have made pothrose desolate, and I have given fire against Zohan, and I have done judgments in no, and I have poured out my fury on sin, the stronghold of Egypt, and I have cut off the multitude of no, and I have given fire against Egypt, greatly pained as sin, and no is to be rent, and Naph hath daily distresses the youths of Avon, and Pie Besseth by swore do fall, and these into captivity do go, and into Japanese hath the day been dark, in my breaking there the yolks of Egypt, and ceased in her hath the excellency of her strength. She, a cloud doth cover her, and her daughters into captivity do go, and I have done judgments in Egypt, and they have known that I am Jehovah, and it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me saying, Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, I hath broken and lo, it hath not been bound up to give healing, to put a bandage to bind it, to strengthen it, to lay hold on the sword, therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I hath broken his arms, the strong one and the broken one, and hath caused the sword to fall out of his hand, and scattered the Egyptians among nations, and I hath spread them through lands, and strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, and I hath given my sword into his hand, and I hath broken the arms of Pharaoh, and he hath grown the groans of a pierced one before him, and I hath strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh do fall down, and they have known that I am Jehovah, in my giving my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath stretched it out toward the land of Egypt, and I hath scattered the Egyptians among nations, and I hath spread them through lands, and they hath known that I am Jehovah, The End of Chapters 25-30 of the Book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold Chapters 31-36 of the Book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or how to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold Chapters 31-36 of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation Chapter 31 And it cometh to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and unto his multitude, To whom hast thou been like in thy greatness? Low, as sure, a cedar in Lebanon, fair in branch, and shading bow, and high in stature, and between thickets hath its foliage been. Waters hath made it great, the deep hath exalted him with its flowings, going round about its planting, and its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field. Therefore, higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, and multiplied are his bows, and long are his branches, because of many waters in his shooting forth. In his bows made a nest half every fowl of the heavens, and under his branches brought forth half every beast of the field, and in his shade dwell do all great nations, and he is fair in his greatness, in the length of his thin shoots, for his root hath been by great waters. Cedars hath not hid him in the garden of God, furs hath not been like unto his bows, and chestnut trees hath not been as his branches. No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty. Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, and envy him to all trees of Eden that are in the garden of God. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because that thou hast been high in stature, and he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, and high is his heart in his haughtiness. I give him into the hand of a God of nations, he dealeth sorely with him in his wickedness. I have cast him out, and cut him off to strangers, the terrible of nations, and they leave him on the mountains, and in all valleys hath his thin shoots fallen, and broken are his bows at all streams of the land, and go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him on his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, and on his bows hath been all the beasts of the field. In order that none of the trees of the waters may become haughty because of their stature, nor give their foliage between thickets, nor any drinking water stand up unto them in their haughtiness. For all of them are given up to death, unto the earth, the lower part, in the midst of the sons of men, unto those going down to the pit. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, in the day of his going down to Sheel, I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, and restrain our many waters, and I make Lebanon black for him, and all trees of the field have been covered for him. From the sound of his fall I have caused nations to shake, in my causing him to go down to Sheel, with those going down to the pit, and comforted in the earth, the lower part are all trees of Eden, the choice and the good of Lebanon, all drinking waters. Also they with him have gone down to Sheel, unto the pierced of the sword, and his arm, they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations, unto whom has thou been thus like, in honor and in greatness among the trees of Eden, and thou hast been brought down with the trees of Eden, unto the earth, the lower part, in the midst of the uncircumcised thou liest, with the pierced of the sword, it is Pharaoh, and all his multitude, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 32 And it cometh to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying, Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and thou hast said unto him, A young lion of nations thou hast been like, and thou art as a dragon in the seas, and thou comest forth with thy flowings, and dost trouble the waters with thy feet, and thou dost foul their flowings. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, and I have spread out for thee my net, with an assembly of many peoples, and they have brought thee up in my net, and I have left thee in the land, on the face of the field I do cast thee out, and I have caused to dwell upon the every foul of the heavens, and have satisfied out of thee the beasts of the whole earth, and I have put thy flesh on the mountains, and filled the valleys with thy hugeness, and watered the land with thy flowing, from thy blood unto the mountains, and streams are filled from thee, and in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, and have made black their stars, the sun with a cloud I do cover, and the moon causeth not its light to shine. All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, and I have given darkness over thy land, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and I have vexed the heart of many peoples, in my bringing in thy destruction among nations, unto lands that thou hast not known, and I have made many peoples astonished at thee, and their kings are afraid at thee with trembling in my brandishing my sword before their faces, and they have trembled every moment, each for his life in the day of thy fall. For thus said the Lord Jehovah, a sword of the king of Babylon entreaty, by swords of the mighty I cast thy multitude to fall, the terrible of nations, all of them, and they have spoiled the excellency of Egypt, and destroyed have been all her multitude, and I have destroyed all her beasts from beside many waters, and trouble them not doth a foot of man any more, yea, the hoofs of beasts trouble them not. Then do I cause their waters to sink, and their rivers as oil I cause to go, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, in my making the land of Egypt a desolation, and desolated have been the land of its fullness, in my smiting all the inhabitants in it, and they have known that I am Jehovah, a lamentation it is, and they have lamented her, daughters of the nations do lament her, for Egypt and for all her multitude they lament her, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me saying, Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cause it to go down, it, and the daughters of honorable nations, unto the earth, the lower parts, with those going down to the pit. Then whom hast thou been more pleasant, go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised, in the midst of the pierced of the sword they fall, to the sword she hath been given, they drew her out, and all her multitude, speak to him, to the gods of the mighty, out of the midst of Sheol, with his helpers, they have gone down, they have lain with the uncircumcised, the pierced of the sword, there is Asher, and all her assembly, round about him are his graves, all of them are wounded, who are falling by sword, whose graves are appointed in the sides of the pit, and her assembly is round about her grave, all of them wounded, falling by sword, because they gave terror in the land of the living, there is Elam, and all her multitude, round about is her grave, all of them wounded, who are falling by sword, who have gone down uncircumcised, unto the earth, the lower parts, because they gave their terror in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those going down to the pit, in the midst of the wounded, they have appointed a bed for her, with all her multitude, round about him are her graves, all of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, for their terror was given in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those going down to the pit, in the midst of the pierced he have been, but there is Meshek, Tubal, and all her multitude, round about him are her graves, all of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, for they gave their terror in the land of the living, and they lie not with a mighty, who are falling of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to shield with their weapons of war, and they put their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones, for the terror of the mighty is in the land of the living, and thou in the midst of the uncircumcised are broken, and dost lie with a pierced of the sword, there is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who have been given up in their might, with a pierced of the sword, they with the uncircumcised do lie, and with those going down to the pit, there are princes of the north, all of them and every Zidonian, who have gone down with the pierced in their terror, of their might they are ashamed, and they lie uncircumcised with a pierced of the sword, and they bear their shame with those going down to the pit. Then doth Pharaoh see, and he hath been comforted for all his multitude, the pierced of the sword, Pharaoh and all his force, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, for I have given his terror in the land of the living, and he hath been laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised, with the pierced of the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 33 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, speak unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast said unto them a land, when I bring in against it a sword, and the people of the land have taken one man out of their borders, and made him to them for a watchman, and he hath seen the sword coming against the land, and hath blown with a trumpet, and hath warned the people, and the hearer hath heard the voice of the trumpet, and he hath not taken warning, and come in doth the sword, and takeeth him away, his blood is on his head. The voice of the trumpet he heard, and he hath not taken warning, his blood is on him, and he who took warning, his soul hath delivered. And the watchman, when he seeeth the sword coming in, and he hath not blown with a trumpet, and the people hath not been warned, and come in doth the sword, and takeeth away of them a soul, he in his iniquity is taken away, and his blood from the hand of the watchman I require. And thou, son of man, a watchman I gave thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from my mouth a word, and thou hast warned them from me, in my saying to the wicked, O wicked one, thou dost surely die, and thou hast not spoken to warn the wicked from his way. He, the wicked, in his iniquity doth die, and his blood from thy hand I require. And thou, when thou hast warned the wicked of his way, to turn back from it, and he hath not turned back from his way, he in his iniquity doth die, and thou thy soul hast delivered. And thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel, rightly ye have spoken, saying, surely our transgressions and our sins are on us, and in them we are wasting away. How then do we live? Say unto them, I live, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. I delight not in the death of the wicked, but in the turning of the wicked from his way, and he hath lived, turned back, turned back from your evil ways, yea, why do ye die, O house of Israel? And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people, the righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked, he doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, and the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning. In my saying of the righteous, he surely liveth, and he hath trusted on his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, all his righteous acts are not remembered, and for his perversity that he hath done, for it he doth die, and in my saying to the wicked, thou surely diest, and he hath turned back from his sin, and hath done judgment and righteousness, the pledge the wicked restoreeth, plunder he repayeth. In the statutes of life he hath walked, so hath not to do perversity, he surely liveth, he doth not die. None of his sin that he hath sinned is remembered to him, judgment and righteousness he hath done, he doth surely live, and the sons of thy people have said, the way of the Lord is not pondered, as to them their way is not pondered. In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, he dieth for it, and in the turning back of the wicked from his wickedness, and he hath done judgment and righteousness, by them he liveth, and he hath said, the way of the Lord is not pondered, each according to his ways do I judge you, O house of Israel, and it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, in the fifth of the month, of our removal, come in unto me, Doth one, who is escaped from Jerusalem, saying, the city hath been smitten, and the hand of Jehovah hath been unto me in the evening, before the coming in of the escaped one, and he openeth my mouth, till the coming in unto me in the morning, and opened is my mouth, and I have not been silent again, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, the inhabitants of these wastes on the ground of Israel are speaking, saying, alone hath been Abraham, and he possesseth the land, and we are many, to us hath the land been given for a possession, therefore say unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, with the blood ye do eat, and your eyes ye lift up unto your idols, and blood ye shed, and the land ye inherit. Ye have stood on your sword, ye have done abomination, each the wife of his neighbor ye have defiled, and the land ye possess. Thus dost thou say unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, I live, do not they who are in the wastes by the sword fall, and they who are on the face of the field, to the beast I have given for food, and they who are in strongholds and in caves by pestilence die, and I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, and ceased hath the excellency of its strength, and desolated have been mountains of Israel, without anyone passing through, and they have known that I am Jehovah, in my making the land a desolation and an astonishment, for all their abominations that they have done, and thou, son of man, the sons of thy people who are speaking about thee by the walls, and in openings of the houses have spoken one with another, each with his brother saying, come in, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh out from Jehovah, and they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, and they sit before thee, my people, and have heard thy words, and they do them not, for doting loves with their mouth they are making, after their dishonest gain, their heart is going, and lo, thou art to them as a singer of doting loves, a pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, and they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them, and in its coming in, lo, it hath come, and they have known that a prophet hath been in their midst. Chapter 34 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, prophesy concerning shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them, to the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah, woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves. The flock do not the shepherds feed, the fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, the fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not, the weak ye have not strengthened, and the sick one ye have not healed, and the broken ye have not bound up, and the driven away have not brought back, and the lost ye have not sought, and with might ye have ruled them, and with rigor, and they are scattered from want of a shepherd, and are for food to every beast of the field, yea, they are scattered. Go astray, do my flock on all the mountains, and on every high hill, and on all the face of the land, have my flock been scattered, and there is none inquiring, and none seeking. Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah, I live an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, if not because of my flock being for a prey, yea, my flock is for food to every beast of the field, because there is no shepherd, and my shepherds have not sought my flock, and the shepherds do feed themselves, and my flock they have not fed. Therefore, oh shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am against the shepherds, and have required my flock from their hand, and caused them to cease from feeding the flock, and no more do the shepherds feed themselves, and I have delivered my flock from their mouth, and they are not to them for food. For thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I, even I, have required my flock, and I have sought it out, as a shepherd searching of his drove, in the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek my flock, and have delivered them out of all places, whether they have been scattered in a day of cloud and thick darkness, and brought them out from the peoples, and have gathered them from the lands, and brought them unto their own ground, and have fed them on mountains of Israel, by streams and by all dwellings of the land, with good pasture I do feed them, and on mountains of the high place of Israel is their habitation. There do they lie down in a good habitation, and fat pastures they enjoy on mountains of Israel. I feed my flock, and cause them to lie down, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, the lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, and the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, and the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment, and you my flock. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am judging between sheep and sheep, between rams and he goats. Is it a little thing for you? The good pasture ye enjoy, and the remnant of your pasture ye tread down with your feet, and a depth of waters ye do drink, and the remainder with your feet ye trample, and my flock the trodden thing of your feet consumeth, and the trampled thing of your feet drinketh? Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah to them, Lo, I even I have judged between fat sheep and lean sheep, because with side and with shoulder ye thrust away, and with your horns push all the diseased, till ye have scattered them to the out place, and I have given safety to my flock, and they are not any more for prey, and I have judged between sheep and sheep, and have raised up over them one shepherd, and he hath fed them my servant David, he doth feed them, and he is their shepherd, and I Jehovah, I am their God, and my servant David, Prince in their midst, I Jehovah have spoken, and I have made for them a covenant of peace, and caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, and they have slept in forests, and I have given them and the suburbs of my hill a blessing, and caused the shower to come down in its season, showers of blessing they are, and given hath the tree of the field its fruit, and the land doth give her increase, and they have been on their land confident, and they have known that I am Jehovah, in my breaking the bands of their yoke, and I have delivered them from the hand of those laying service on them, and they are no more a prey to nations, and the beast of the earth devoureth them not, and they have dwelt confidently, and there is none troubling, and I have raised for them a plant for renown, and they are no more consumed by hunger in the land, and they bear no more the shame of the nations, and they have known that I Jehovah their God, and with them, and they, the host of Israel, my people, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, men ye are, I am your God, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 35 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face against Mount Sear, and prophesy against it, and thou hast said to it, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am against thee, O Mount Sear, and have stretched out my hand against thee, and made thee a desolation, and an astonishment. Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, and thou hast known that I am Jehovah, because of thy having an enmity aged during, and thou dost saw the sons of Israel, by the hands of the sword, in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end. Therefore I live, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, surely for blood I do appoint thee, and blood doth pursue thee. If blood thou hast not hated, blood also doth pursue thee, and I have given Mount Sear for a desolation, and an astonishment, and have cut off from it, him who is passing over, and him who is returning, and filled his mountains with his wounded, thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy streams, the pierced of the sword fall into them. Desolations age during I make thee, and thy cities do not return, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, because of thy saying. The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, and Jehovah hath been there. Therefore I live, and affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and I have done according to thine anger, and according to thine envy, which with thou hast wrought because of thy hatred against them, and I have been known among them when I judge thee, and thou hast known that I Jehovah. I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken against mountains of Israel, saying a desolation. To us they were given for food, and ye magnify yourselves against me with your mouth, and have made abundant against me your words. I, I have heard, thus said the Lord Jehovah. According to the rejoicing of the whole land, a desolation I make of thee, according to thy joy at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because of desolation, so I do to thee. A desolation thou art, O Mount Seer, and all Edom, all of it, and they have known that I am Jehovah. Chapter 36. And thou, son of man, prophesy unto mountains of Israel, and thou hast said, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because the enemy said against you, aha, and the high places of old for a possession have been to us. Therefore prophesy, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah, because even because of desolating, and of swallowing you up from round about, for your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, and he are taken up on the tip of the tongue, and are an evil report of the people. Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of the Lord Jehovah, thus said the Lord Jehovah, to mountains and to hills, to streams and to valleys, and to wastes that are desolate, and to cities that are forsaken, that have been for a prey, and for a scorn to the remnant of the nations who are round about. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, have I not in the fire of my jealousy spoken against the remnant of the nations, and against Edom, all of it, who gave my land to themselves for a possession with a joy of the whole heart, with despite of soul, for the sake of casting it out for a prey. Therefore, prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, and thou hast said to mountains and to hills, to streams and to valleys, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I in my jealousy, and in my fury I have spoken, because the shame of nations ye have borne. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, I have lifted up my hand, do not, the nations who are with you from round about, they their own shame bear, and ye, O mountains of Israel, your branch ye give out, and your fruits ye bear for my people Israel, for they have drawn near to come for lo, I am for you, and have turned to you, and ye have been tilled and sown, and I have multiplied on you men, all the house of Israel, all of it, and the cities have been inhabited, and the wastes are built, and I have multiplied on you man and beast, and they have multiplied and been fruitful, and I have caused you to dwell according to your former states, and I have done better than at your beginnings, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, and I have caused man to walk over you, my people Israel, and they possess thee, and thou hast been to them for an inheritance, and thou dost add no more to bereave them. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, because they are saying to you, a devourer of men art thou, and a bereaver of thy nations thou hast been, therefore man thou devourest no more, and thy nations thou causest not to stumble any more, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and I proclaim not unto thee any more the shame of the nations, and the reproach of peoples thou bearest no more, and thy nations stumble not any more, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, the house of Israel are dwelling on their land, and they defile it by their way and by their doings, as the uncleanness of a separated one hath their way been before me, and I do pour out my fury upon them for the blood that they shed on the land, and with their idols they have defiled it, and I scatter them among nations, and they are spread through lands according to their way, and according to their doings I have judged them, and one goeth in unto the nations whether they have gone, and they pollute my holy name by saying to them, the people of Jehovah are these, and from his land they have gone forth, and I have pity on my holy name, that the house of Israel have polluted among nations whether they have gone in, therefore say to the house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah, not for your sake am I working, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, that ye have polluted among nations whether ye have gone in, and I have sanctified my great name, that is profane among nations, that ye have polluted in your midst, and known have the nations that I am Jehovah, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, in my being sanctified in you before your eyes, and I have taken you out of the nations, and have gathered you out of all the lands, and I have brought you in unto your land, and I have sprinkled over you clean water, and ye have been clean from all your uncleanness, and from all your idols I do cleanse you, and I have given to you a new heart, and a new spirit I have given your midst, and I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I have given to you a heart of flesh, and my spirit I have given your midst, and I have done this so that in my statutes ye walk, and my judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, and ye have been to me for a people, and I am to you for God, and I have saved you from all your uncleanness, and I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, and I have put no famine upon you, and I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, so that ye receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations, and ye have remembered your ways that are evil, and your doings that are not good, and have been loathsome in your own faces, for your iniquities, and for your abominations, not for your sake am I working, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, be it known to you, be ashamed and confounded because of your ways, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah, in the day of my cleansing you from all your iniquities, I have caused the cities to be inhabited, and the wastes have been built, and the desolate land is tilled, instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passerby, and they have said, this land that was desolated, hath been as the garden of Eden, and the cities the wasted, and the desolated, and the broken down, fenced places have remained, and known have the nations who are left round about you, that I Jehovah have built the throne down, I have planted the desolated, I Jehovah have spoken, and I have done it, thus said the Lord Jehovah, yet this I am required, by the house of Israel to do to them, I multiply them as a flock of men, as a flock of holy ones, as a flock of Jerusalem in her appointed seasons, so are the waste cities full of flocks of men, and they have known that I am Jehovah. The end of chapters 31 through 36 of the book of Ezekiel, from the Young's literal translation of the Bible, recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 37 through 42 of Ezekiel, from the Young's literal translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are public domain. For more information, or how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 37 through 42 of Ezekiel, from the Young's literal translation. Chapter 37 There hath been upon me a hand of Jehovah, and he taketh me forth in the spirit of Jehovah, and doth place me in the midst of the valley. And it is full of bones, and he causeth me to pass over by them, all round about, and lo, very many are on the face of the valley, and lo, very dry. And he saith unto me, Son of man, do these bones live? And I say, Oh Lord Jehovah, thou, thou hast known. And he saith unto me, prophesy concerning these bones, and thou hast said unto them, Oh dry bones, hear a word of Jehovah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah to these bones, lo, I am bringing into you a spirit, and ye have lived, and I have given on you sinews, and cause flesh to come up upon you, and covered you over with skin, and given in you a spirit, and ye have lived, and ye have known that I am Jehovah, and I have prophesied as I have been commanded, and there is a noise as I am prophesying, and lo, a rushing, and draw near to the bones, bone unto its bone, and I beheld, and lo, on them are sinews, and flesh have come up, and cover them doth skin over above, and spirit there is none in them. And he saith unto me, prophesy unto the spirit, prophesy, Son of man, and thou hast said unto the spirit, thus said the Lord Jehovah, from the four winds come in, O spirit, and breathe on these slain, and they do live, and I have prophesied as he commanded me, and the spirit cometh into them, and they live, and stand on their feet, a very, very great force. And he saith unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel, lo, they are saying, dried up have our bones, and perished hath our hope, we have been cut off by ourselves. Therefore prophesy, and thou hast said unto them, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am opening your graves, and have brought you up out of your graves, O my people, and brought you in unto the land of Israel, and ye have known that I am Jehovah in my opening your graves, and in my bringing you up out of your graves, O my people, and I have given my spirit in you, and ye have lived, and I have caused you to rest on your land, and ye have known that I Jehovah, I have spoken, and I have done it, an affirmation of Jehovah, and there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, and thou, Son of man, take to thee one stick, and write on it for Judah, and for the sons of Israel, his companions, and take another stick, and write on it for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel, his companions, and bring them near one unto another to thee, for one stick, and they have become one in thy hand, and when sons of thy people speak unto thee saying, dost thou not declare to us what these are to thee? Speak unto them. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am taking the stick of Joseph that is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions, and have given them unto him with the stick of Judah, and have made them become one stick, and they have been one in my hand, and the sticks on which thou writest have been in thy hand before thine eyes, and speak thou unto them. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, I am taking the sons of Israel from among the nations wither they have gone, and have gathered them from round about, and I have brought them in unto their land, and I have made them become one nation in the land on mountains of Israel, and one king is to them all for king, and they are no more as two nations, nor are they divided any more into two kingdoms again, nor are they defiled any more with their idols and with their abominations, and with any of their transgressions, and I have saved them out of all their dwellings in which they have sinned, and I have cleansed them, and they have been to me for a people, and I am to them for God, and my servant David is king over them, and one shepherd have they all, and in my judgments they go, and my statutes they keep, and have done them, and they have dwelt on the land that I gave to my servant, to Jacob in which your fathers have dwelt, and they have dwelt on it, they and their sons, and their sons' sons unto the age, and David my servant is their prince to the age, and I have made to them a covenant of peace, a covenant age during it is with them, and I have placed them, and multiplied them, and placed my sanctuary in their midst to the age, and my tabernacle have been over them, and I have been to them for God, and they have been to me for a people, and known have the nations that I, Jehovah, am sanctifying Israel in my sanctuary being in their midst to the age. Chapter 38 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me saying, Son of man, set thy face unto Gog, of the land of Magog, Prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and prophesy concerning him, and thou hast said, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am against thee, O Gog, Prince of Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and I have turned thee back, and I have put hooks in thy jaws, and have brought thee out, and all thy force, horses and horsemen, clothed in perfection, all of them, a numerous assembly with buckler and shield, handling swords, all of them, Persia, Cush, and foot with them, all of them with shield and helmet, Gomer, and all its bands, the house of Togarma, of the sides of the North, and all its bands, many peoples with thee. Be prepared, yea, prepare for thee, thou, and all thine assemblies who are assembled unto thee, and thou hast been to them for a guard. After many days thou art appointed. In the latter end of the years thou comest in unto a land brought back from sword, a people gathered out of many peoples, upon mountains of Israel that have been for a perpetual waste, and it from the peoples have been brought out, and dwelt safely have all of them, and thou hast gone up, as wasting thou comest in, as a cloud to cover the land art thou, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, and it hath come to pass in that day, come up, do things on thy heart, and thou hast thought and evil thought, and thou hast said, I go up against a land of unwalled villages, I go into those at rest, dwelling confidently, all of them are dwelling without walls, and bar and doors they have not, to take a spoil and to take a prey, to turn back thy hand on inhabited wastes, and on a people gathered out of nations, making cattle and substance, dwelling on a high part of the land. Sheba and Dadan, and merchants of Tarshish, and all its young lions say to thee, to take a spoil art thou come in, to take a prey assembled thine assembly, to bear away silver and gold, to take away cattle and substance, to take a great spoil, therefore prophesy son of man, and thou hast said to Gog, thus said the Lord Jehovah, in that day, in the dwelling of my people Israel safely, dost thou not know? and thou hast come in out of thy place, from the sides of the north, thou and many peoples with thee, riding on horses, all of them a great assembly, and a numerous force, and thou hast come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land, in the latter end of the days it is, and I have brought thee in against my land, in order that the nations may know me, in my being sanctified in thee, before their eyes, O Gog, thus said the Lord Jehovah, art thou he of whom I spake in former days, by the hand of my servants, prophets of Israel, who are prophesying in those days, years, to bring thee in against them, and it hath come to pass in that day, in the day of the coming in of Gog, against the land of Israel, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, come up, dost my fury in my face, and in my zeal in the fire of my wrath, I have spoken, is there not in that day a great rushing on the land of Israel, and rushed from my presence have fishes of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and the beast of the field, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the ground, and all men who are on the face of the ground, and thrown down have been the mountains, and fallen have the ascents, and every wall to the earth falleth, and I have called against him, to all my mountains a sword, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, the sword of each is against his brother, and I have been judged with him, with pestilence and with blood, and an overflowing rain and hailstones, fire and brimstone I reign on him, and on his bands, and on many peoples who are with him, and I have magnified myself, and sanctified myself, and I have been known before the eyes of many nations, and they have known that I am Jehovah. Chapter 39 And thou, son of man, prophesy concerning Gog, and thou hast said, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, I am against thee, O Gog, Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and have turned thee back, and enticed thee, and caused thee to come up from the sides of the north, and brought thee in against mountains of Israel, and have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, yea, thine arrows out of thy right I caused to fall, on mountains of Israel thou fallest, thou and all thy bands, and the peoples who are with thee, to ravenous foul a bird of every wing, and to a beast of the field I have given thee for food, on the face of the field thou fallest, for I have spoken an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and I have sent a fire against Magog, and against the confident inhabitants of the isles, and they have known that I am Jehovah, and my holy name I make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I pollute not my holy name any more, and known have the nations that I, Jehovah, the Holy One, am in Israel. Lo, it hath come, and it hath been done, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, it is the day of which I spake, and gone out have the inhabitants of cities of Israel, and they have burned and kindled a fire with armor and shield and buckler, with bow and with arrows and with hand-staves, and with javelins, and they have caused a fire to burn with them seven years, and they do not take wood out of the field, nor do they hew out of the forests, for with armor they caused the fire to burn, and they have spoiled their spoilers, and they have plundered their plunderers, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and it hath come to pass in that day. I give to Gog a place there, a grave in Israel, the valley of those passing by east of the sea, and it is stopping those passing by, and they have buried their Gog and all his multitude, and have cried, oh valley of the multitude of Gog, and the house of Israel have buried them in order to cleanse the land, seven months, yea all the people of the land have buried them, and it hath been to them for a name, the day of my being honored, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and men for continual employment they separate, passing on through the land, burying with those passing by, those who are left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it, at the end of seven months they search, and those passing by have passed through the land, and seen a bone of man, and one hath constructed near it a sign, till those burying have buried it in the valley of the multitude of Gog, and also the name of the city is the multitude, and they have cleansed the land, and thou, son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah, say to the bird every wing, and to every beast of the field, be assembled and come in, be gathered from round about, for my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on mountains of Israel, and ye have eaten flesh and drunk blood, flesh of the mighty ye do eat, and blood of princes of the earth ye drink, of rams of lambs and of he goats, of calves, fatlings of Bashan, all of them, and ye have eaten fat to satiety, and ye have drunk blood to drunkenness, of my sacrifice that I sacrificed for you, and ye have been satisfied at my table with horse and rider, mighty man and every man of war, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and I have given my honor among nations, and seen have all the nations my judgment that I have done, and my hand that I have laid on them, and known have the house of Israel that I am Jehovah their God from that day and henceforth, and known have the nations that for their iniquity removed have the house of Israel because they have trespassed against me, and I do hide my face from them, and give them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fall by sword, all of them, according to their uncleanness, and according to their transgressions I have done with them, and I do hide my face from them, therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah, now do I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and I have pitied all the house of Israel, and have been zealous for my holy name, and they have forgotten their shame, and all their trespass that they trespassed against me in their dwelling on their land confidently, and none troubling. In my bringing them back from the peoples, I have assembled them from the lands of their enemies, and I have been sanctified in them before the eyes of the many nations, and they have known that I am Jehovah their God in my removing them unto the nations, and I have gathered them unto their land, and I leave none of them any more there, and I hide not any more my face from them, in that I have poured out my spirit on the house of Israel, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 40 In the twenty and fifth year of our removal, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in this self-same day hath a hand of Jehovah been upon me, and he bringeth me in thither, in visions of God he hath brought me in unto the land of Israel, and causeth me to rest on a very high mountain, and upon it is as the frame of a city on the south, and he bringeth me in thither and low a man, his appearance as the appearance of brass, and a thread of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed, and he is standing at the gate, and the man speaketh unto me, Son of man, see with thine eyes, and with thine ears hear, and set thy heart to all that I am shoeing thee, for in order to shoe at thee thou hast been brought in hither, declare all that thou art seeing to the house of Israel, and lo a wall on the outside of the house all round about, and in the hand of the man a measuring reed, six cubits by a cubit and a hand breath, and he measureeth the breadth of the building one reed, and the height one reed, and he cometh in unto the gate whose front is eastward, and he goeth up by its steps, and he measureeth the threshold of the gate one reed broad, even the one threshold one reed broad, and the little chamber one reed long, and one reed broad, and between the little chambers five cubits, and the threshold of the gate from the side of the porch of the gate from within one reed, and he measureeth the porch of the gate from within one reed, and he measureeth the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its posts two cubits, and the porch of the gates from within, and the little chambers of the gate eastward, three on this side, and three on that side. One measure is to them three, and one measure is to the posts on this side and on that side. And he measureeth the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits, the length of the gate, thirteen cubits, and a border before the little chambers, one cubit, and one cubit is the border on this side, and the little chamber is six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. And he measureeth the gate from the roof of the one little chamber, to the roof of another, the breadth, twenty and five cubits, opening over against opening. And he maketh the posts of sixty cubits, even unto the post of the court, the gate all round about, and by the front of the gate of the entrance, by the front of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits, and narrow windows are unto the little chambers, and unto their posts at the inside of the gate all round about, and so to the arches, and windows all round about are at the inside, and at the post are palm trees. And he bringeth me in unto the outer court and lo, chambers and a pavement made for the court all round about, thirty chambers on the pavement, and the pavement unto the side of the gates over against the length of the gates is the lower pavement. And he measureeth the breadth from before the lower gate, to the front of the inner court, on the outside, a hundred cubits, eastward, and northward. As to the gate of the outer court whose front is northward, he hath measured its length and its breadth, and its little chambers, three on this side, and three on that side, and its posts and its arches have been according to the measure of the first gate, fifty cubits its length, and the breadth, five and twenty by the cubit. And its windows, and its arches, and its palm trees, are according to the measure of the gate whose face is eastward, and by seven steps they go up on it, and its arches are before them. And the gate of the inner court is over against the gate at the north and at the east, and he measureeth from gate unto gate a hundred cubits. And he causeth me to go southward, and low, a gate southward, and he hath measured its posts and its arches according to these measures. And windows are to it, and to its arches all round about, like these windows, fifty cubits the length, and the breadth, five and twenty cubits, and seven steps are its assent, and its arches are before them, and palm trees are to it, one on this side, and one on that side, at its posts. And the gate of the inner court is southward, and he measureeth from gate unto gate southward, a hundred cubits. And he bringeth me in unto the inner court by the south gate, and he measureeth the south gate according to these measures. And its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches, are according to these measures, and windows are to it, and to its arches all round about, fifty cubits the length, and the breadth, twenty and five cubits. As to the arches all round about, the length is five and twenty cubits, and the breadth, five cubits, and its arches are unto the outer court, and palm trees are unto its posts, and eight steps are its assent. And he bringeth me in unto the inner court eastward, and he measureeth the gate according to these measures. And its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches, are according to these measures. And windows are to it, and to its arches all round about, the length, fifty cubits, and the breadth, five and twenty cubits. And its arches are toward the outer court, and palm trees are toward its posts, on this side, and on that side, and eight steps are its assent. And he bringeth me in unto the north gate, and half measured according to these measures. Its little chambers, its posts, and its arches, and windows are to it all round about, the length, fifty cubits, and the breadth, five and twenty cubits. And its posts are to the outer court, and palm trees are unto its posts, on this side, and on that side, and eight steps are its assent. And the chamber, and its opening is by the posts of the gates, there they purge the bird offering. And in the porch of the gate are two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slaughter on them the bird offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering. And at the side without, at the going up to the opening of the north gate, are two tables, and at the other side that is at the porch of the gate, are two tables. Four tables are on this side, and four tables on that side, at the side of the gate, eight tables on which they slaughter. And the four tables for bird offering are of hewn stone, the length one cubit and a half, and the breadth one cubit and a half, and the height one cubit. On them they place the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering, and the sacrifice. And the boundaries are one hand breadth, prepared within all round about. And on the tables is the flesh of the offering. And on the outside of the inner gate are chambers of the singers, in the inner court, that are at the side of the north gate, and their fronts are southward, one at the side of the east gate, half the front northward. And he speaketh unto me, this chamber whose front is southward is for priests keeping charge of the house, and the chamber whose front is northward is for priests keeping charge of the altar. They are sons of Zadok who are drawing near of the sons of Levi unto Jehovah to serve him. And he measureeth the court, the length a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits square, and the altar is before the house. And he bringeth me in unto the porch of the house, and he measureeth the post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate, three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. The length of the porch twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and by the steps whereby they go up unto it, and pillars are at the posts, one on this side, and one on that side. Chapter forty one. And he bringeth me in unto the temple, and he measureeth the posts, six cubits the breadth on this side, and six cubits the breadth on that side, the breadth of the tent, and the breadth of the opening is ten cubits, and the sides of the opening are five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. And he measureeth its length forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. And he have gone inward, and measureeth the posts of the opening two cubits, and the opening six cubits, and the breadth of the opening seven cubits. And he measureeth its length twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits unto the front of the temple. And he sayeth unto me, this is the holy of holies. And he measureeth the wall of the house six cubits, and the breadth of the side chamber four cubits all round the house round about. And the side chambers are side chamber by side chamber three and thirty times, and they are entering into the wall which the house hath for the side chambers all round about to be taken hold of, and they are not taken hold of by the wall of the house. And a broad place, and a turning place still upwards are to the side chambers, for the turning round of the house is still upwards all round about the house. Therefore the breadth of the house is upwards, and so the lower one goeth up unto the higher by the midst. And I have looked at the house, the height all around about. The foundations of the side chambers are the fullness of the reed six cubits by the joining. The breadth of the wall that is to the side chamber at the outside is five cubits, and that which is left is the place of the side chambers that are to the house. And between the chambers is a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house, all round about. And the opening of the side chamber is to the place left, one opening northward, and one opening southward, and the breadth of the place that is left is five cubits all round about. As to the building that is at the front of the separate place at the corner westward, the breadth is seventy cubits, and the wall of the building five cubits broad all round about, and its length ninety cubits. And he have measured the house, the length is a hundred cubits, and the separate place and the building and its walls the length is a hundred cubits, and the breadth of the front of the house and of the separate place eastward a hundred cubits. And he have measured the length of the building unto the front of the separate place that is at its hinder part, and its galleries on this side and on that side a hundred cubits, and the inner temple and the porches of the court, the thresholds and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about them three over against the threshold a ceiling of wood all round about, and the ground unto the windows and the covered windows over above the opening, and unto the inner house and at the outside and by the wall all round about within and without by measure, and it is made with cherubs and palm trees, and a palm tree is between cherub and cherub, and two faces are to the cherub, and the face of man is unto the palm tree on this side, and the face of a young lion unto the palm tree on that side, it is made unto all the house all round about, from the earth unto above the opening are the cherubs and the palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. Of the temple the side post is square, and of the front of the sanctuary the appearance is as the appearance. Of the altar the wood is three cubits in height, and its length two cubits, and its corners are to it, and its length, and its walls are of wood, and he speaketh unto me, this is the table that is before Jehovah, and two doors are to the temple and to the sanctuary, and two leaves are to the doors, two turning leaves are to the doors, two to the one door, and two leaves to the other, and made on them, on the doors of the temple, are cherubs and palm trees as are made on the walls, and a thickness of wood is at the front of the porch on the outside, and narrow windows and palm trees are on this side and on that side, at the sides of the porch, and the side chambers of the house, and the thick places. Chapter 42. And he bringeth me forth unto the outer court, the way northward, and he bringeth me in unto the chamber that is over against the separate place, and that is over against the building at the north. At the front of the length is a hundred cubits at the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits, over against the twenty cubits that are to the inner court, and over against the pavement that is to the outer court, is gallery over against gallery in the three stories, and at the front of the chambers is a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings are at the north, and the upper chambers are short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower and than the middle one of the building, for they are three fold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back, more than the lower and than the middle one, from the ground. As to the wall that is at the outside over against the chambers, the way of the outer court at the front of the chambers, its length is fifty cubits, for the length of the chambers that are to the outer court is fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple a hundred cubits, and under these chambers is the entrance from the east, in ones going into them from the outer court. In the breadth of the wall of the court eastward, unto the front of the separate place, and unto the front of the building are chambers, and the way before them is as the appearance of the chambers that are northward, according to their length, so is their breadth, and all their outlets, and according to their fashions, and according to their openings, and according to the openings of the chambers that are southward, is an opening at the head of the way, the way directly in front of the wall eastward, in entering them. And he saith unto me, The north chambers, the south chambers that are at the front of the separate place, they are holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Jehovah eat the most holy things, there they place the most holy things, and the present, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is holy. In the priests going in, they come not out from the sanctuary unto the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they are holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near unto that which is for the people. And he hath finished the measurements of the inner house, and hath brought me forth the way of the gate whose front is eastward, and he hath measured it all round about. He hath measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. He hath measured the north side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. The south side he hath measured, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. He hath turned round unto the west side, he hath measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. At the four sides he hath measured it. A wall is to it all round about the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to separate between the holy and the profane place. The end of chapters 37 through 42 of the book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 43 through 48 of the book of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 43 through 48 of Ezekiel from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter 43. And he causeth me to go to the gate, the gate that is looking eastward and low. The honor of the God of Israel hath come from the way of the east, and his voice is as the noise of many waters, and the earth hath shown from his honor. And according to the appearance is the appearance that I saw, as the appearance that I saw in my coming in to destroy the city, and the appearances are as the appearance that I saw at the river Chebar, and I fall on my face. And the honor of Jehovah hath come in unto the house, the way of the gate whose face is eastward, and take me up doth the spirit, and bringeth me in unto the inner court, and lo, the honor of Jehovah hath filled the house, and I hear one speaking unto me from the house, and a man hath been standing near me, and he sayeth unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the souls of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel to the age. Defile no more do the house of Israel my holy name, they and their kings by their hordom, and by the carcasses of their kings their high places. In their putting their threshold with my threshold, and their doorpost near my doorpost, and the wall between me and them, and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have done, and I consume them in mine anger. Now do they put far off their hordom, and the carcasses of their kings from me, and I hath dwelt in their midst to the age. Thou, Son of man, shoe the house of Israel, the house, and they are ashamed of their iniquities, and they have measured the measurement, and since they have been ashamed of all that they have done, the form of the house, and its measurement, and its outlets, and its inlets, and all its forms, and all its statutes, even all its forms, and all its laws cause them to know, and write it before their eyes, and they observe all its forms, and all its statutes, and have done them. This is a law of the house. On the top of the mountain, all its border all round about is most holy. Low, this is a law of the house. And these are measures of the altar by cubits. The cubit is a cubit and a hand breath, and the center is a cubit, and a cubit the breath. And its border on its edge round about is one span, and this is the upper part of the altar. And from the center of the ground unto the lower border is two cubits, and the breath one cubit. And from the lesser border unto the greater border four cubits, and the breath a cubit. And the altar is four cubits, and from the altar and upward are four horns, and the altar is twelve long by twelve broad, square in its four squares. And the border is fourteen long by fourteen broad at its four squares, and the border round about it is half a cubit, and the center to it is a cubit round about, and its steps are looking eastward. And he saith unto me, Son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah, these are statutes of the altar in the day of its being made to cause burnt offering to go up on it, and to sprinkle on it blood. And thou hast given unto the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near unto me an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, to serve me a calf from the herd for a sin offering. And thou hast taken of its blood, and hast put it on its four horns and on the four quarters of its border, and on the border round about, and hast cleansed it and purified it. And thou hast taken the bullock of the sin offering, and hast burnt it in the appointed place of the house at the outside of the sanctuary, and on the second day thou dost bring near a kid of the goats a perfect one for a sin offering, and they have cleansed the altar as they cleansed it for the bullock. In thy finishing cleansing, thou dost bring near a calf a son of the herd a perfect one, and a ram out of the flock a perfect one. And thou hast brought them near before Jehovah, and the priests have cast upon them salt, and have caused them to go up a burnt offering to Jehovah. Seven days thou dost prepare a goat for a sin offering daily, and a bullock a son of the herd, and a ram out of the flock, perfect ones do they prepare. Seven days they purify the altar, and have cleansed it, and filled their hand. And the days are completed, and it hath come to pass on the eighth day, and henceforth the priests prepare on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, and I have accepted you, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 44 And he causeth me to turn back the way of the gate of the outer sanctuary that is looking eastward, and it is shut. And Jehovah saith unto me, This gate is shut, it is not opened, and none doth go in by it, for Jehovah God of Israel hath come in by it, and it hath been shut. The prince who is prince, he sitteth by it to eat bread before Jehovah, by the way of the porch of the gate he cometh in, and by its way he goeth out. And he bringeth me in the way of the north gate unto the front of the house. And I look and lo, filled hath the honor of Jehovah, the house of Jehovah, and I fall on my face. And Jehovah saith unto me, Son of man, set thy heart and see with thine eyes and with thine ears here all that I am speaking with thee, of all the statutes of the house of Jehovah, and of all its laws, and thou hast set thy heart to the entrance of the house with all the outlets of the sanctuary, and hast said unto the rebellious, unto the house of Israel, thus said the Lord Jehovah, enough to you of all your abominations, O house of Israel, in your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house in your bringing near my bread, fat and blood, and they break my covenant by all your abominations, and ye have not kept the charge of my holy things, and ye set them for keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for you, thus said the Lord Jehovah, no son of a stranger uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto my sanctuary, even any son of a stranger who is in the midst of the sons of Israel, but the Levites who have gone far off from me in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity, and they have been in my sanctuary, ministrants, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministrants at the house. They slay the burnt offering, and the sacrifice for the people, and they stand before them to serve them, because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, and they have borne their iniquity, and they draw not nigh unto me to act as my priest, and to draw nigh unto any of my holy things, unto the holy of holies, and they have borne their shame and their abominations that they have done, and I made them keepers of the charge of the house for all its service, and for all that is done in it. And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of my sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off me, they draw near unto me to serve me, and have stood before me to bring near to me fat and blood, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. They come in unto my sanctuary, and they draw near unto my table to serve me, and they have kept my charge, and it hath come to pass in their going in unto the gates of the inner court, linen garments they put on, and no wool cometh up on them in their ministering in the gates of the inner court and within. Linen bonnets are on their heads, and linen trousers are on their loins, they are not restrained with sweat, and in their going forth unto the outer court, unto the outer court, unto the people. They strip off their garments in which they are ministering, and have placed them in the holy chambers, and have put on other garments, and they do not sanctify the people in their own garments. And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth, they certainly pull their heads. And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court, and a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives. But, virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of her priest, do they take. And my people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern, and concerning controversy, they stand up for judgment. With my judgments they judge it, and my law and my statutes in all my appointed places they keep, and my Sabbaths they sanctify. And unto any dead man they come not for uncleanness, but for father, and for mother, and for son, and for daughter, for brother, for sister who hath not been to a man, they defile themselves. And after his cleansing, seven days they number to him, and in the day of his coming in unto the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he bringeth near his sin offering, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. And it hath been to them for an inheritance, I am their inheritance, and a possession ye do not give to them in Israel, I am their possession. The present, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering they do eat, and every devoted thing in Israel is theirs. And the first of all the first fruits of all, and every heave offering of all, of all your heave offerings are the priests. And the first of your dough ye give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house. Any carcass and torn thing of the fowl and of the beasts, the priests do not eat. Chapter 45 And in your causing the land to fall in inheritance, ye lift up a heave offering to Jehovah, a holy portion of the land. The length, five and twenty thousand is the length, and the breadth ten thousand. It is holy in all its border round about. There is of this for the sanctuary five hundred by five hundred square round about, and fifty cubits of suburb is to it round about. And by this measure thou dost measure. The length is five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand. And in it is the sanctuary, the holy of holies. The holy portion of the land it is, for priests, ministrants of the sanctuary it is, who are drawing near to serve Jehovah, and it hath been to them a place for houses, and a holy place for a sanctuary. And of the five and twenty thousand of length, and of the ten thousand of breadth, there is to the Levites, ministrants of the house for them, for a possession, twenty chambers. And of the possession of the city ye give five thousand of breadth, and of length five and twenty thousand, over against the heave offering of the holy portion, to all the house of Israel it is. As to the prince on this side and on that side, of the heave offering of the holy place, and of the possession of the city, at the front of the heave offering of the holy place, and at the front of the possession of the city, from the west corner westward, and from the east corner eastward. And the length is over against one of the portions from the west border unto the east border. Of the land there is to him for a possession in Israel, and my princes do not oppress any more my people, and the land they give to the house of Israel, according to their tribes. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, enough to you, princes of Israel, violence and spoil, turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do, lift up your exactions from off my people, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Just balances, and a just Ifa, and a just Bath he have. The Ifa and the Bath is of one measure, for the Bath to bear a tenth of the Homer, and the Ifa a tenth of the Homer. According to the Homer is its measurement. And the Shekel is twenty Gira, twenty Shekels, five and twenty Shekels, fifteen Shekels is your manna. This is the heave offering that ye lift up, a sixth part of the Ifa of a Homer of wheat. Also ye have given a sixth part of the Ifa of a Homer of barley, and the portion of oil, the Bath of oil, a tenth part of the Bath out of the core, a Homer of ten Baths, for ten Baths are a Homer. And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the watered country of Israel for a present, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement by them, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. All the people of the land are at this heave offering for the prince in Israel, and on the prince are the burnt offerings, and the present, and the libation, in feasts, and in new moons, and in sabbaths, in all appointed times of the house of Israel. He doth make the sin offering, and the present, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, in the first month, in the first of the month, thou dost take a bullock, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and hast cleansed the sanctuary. And the priest hath taken of the blood of the sin offering, and hath put on the doorpost of the house, and on the four corners of the border of the altar, and on the post of the gate of the inner court. And so thou dost do on the seventh of the month, because of each airing one, and because of the simple one, and ye have purified the house. In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye have the Passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened food is eaten. And the prince hath prepared on that day for himself, and for all the people of the land a bullock, a sin offering. And the seven days of the feast, he prepared a burnt offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks, and seven rams, perfect ones, daily seven days, and a sin offering, a kid of the goats daily. And a present of an ifa for a bullock, and an ifa for a ram, he doth prepare, and of oil a hen for an ifa. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, he doth according to these things, seven days, as the sin offering, so the burnt offering, and as the present, so also the oil. Chapter 46 Thus said the Lord Jehovah, the gate of the inner court that is looking eastward is shut the six days of work, and on the day of rest it is opened, and in the day of the new moon it is opened. And come in hath the prince the way of the porch of the gate at the outside, and he hath stood by the post of the gate, and the priests have made his burnt offering, and his peace offerings, and he hath bowed himself by the opening of the gate, and hath gone forth, and the gate is not shut till the evening. And bowed themselves have the people of the land at the opening of that gate, on sabbaths and on new moons before Jehovah, and the burnt offering that the prince bringeth near to Jehovah on the day of rest is six lambs, perfect ones, and a ram, a perfect one. And the present is an ifa for a ram, and for the lambs a present, the gift of his hand, and of oil a hin for an ifa. And on the day of the new moon a bullock, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and six lambs and a ram, they are perfect. And with an ifa for a bullock and an ifa for a ram, he prepareth a present, and for the lambs as his hand a taineth, and of oil a hin for an ifa. And in the coming in of the prince the way of the porch of the gate he cometh in, and by its way he goeth out. And in the coming in of the people of the land before Jehovah at appointed times, he who hath come in the way of the north gate to bow himself, goeth out the way of the south gate, and he who hath come in the way of the south gate, goeth out by the way of the north gate. He doth not turn back the way of the gate by which he came in, but over against it he goeth out. And the prince in their midst in their coming in cometh in, and in their going out he goeth out. And in feasts and in appointed times the present is an ifa for a bullock, and an ifa for a ram, and for lambs the gift of his hand, and of oil a hin for an ifa. And when the prince maketh a free will burnt offering, or free will peace offerings to Jehovah, then he hath opened for himself the gate that is looking eastward, and he hath made his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he doth in the day of rest, and he hath gone out, and he hath shut the gate after his going out. And a lamb, son of a year, a perfect one, thou dost make a burnt offering daily to Jehovah, morning by morning thou dost make it. And a present thou dost make for it morning by morning a sixth part of the ifa, and of oil a third part of the hin, to temper with the fine flower a present to Jehovah by a statute aged during continually. And prepare ye the lamb and the present and the oil morning by morning a continual burnt offering. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, when the prince giveth a gift to any of his sons, his inheritance it is. To his sons it is, their possession it is by inheritance. And when he giveth a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it hath been to him till the year of freedom, and it hath turned back to the prince, only the inheritance of his sons is theirs. And the prince doth not take of the inheritance of the people to oppress them out of their possession, out of his own possession he doth cause his sons to inherit, so that my people are not scattered each from his possession. And he bringeth me in through the entrance that is by the side of the gate, unto the holy chambers, unto the priests that are looking northward, and lo, there is a place in their two sides westward. And he sayeth unto me, This is the place where the priests do boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they bake the present, so as not to bring it out unto the outer court, to sanctify the people. And he bringeth me out unto the outer court, and causeth me to pass over unto the four corners of the court, and lo, a court in a corner of the court, a court in a corner of the corner. In the four corners of the court are perfume courts, forty long and thirty broad, one measure is to the four corners. And a row is round about in them, round about to them four, and made with boilers under the rows round about. And he sayeth unto me, These are the houses of those boiling where the ministrants of the house boil the sacrifice of the people. Chapter 47 And he causeth me to turn back unto the opening of the house, and lo, water is coming forth from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house is eastward. And the water is coming down from beneath, from the right side of the house, from the south of the altar. And he causeth me to go out of the way of the gate northward, and causeth me to turn round the way without, unto the gate that is without, the way that is looking eastward, and lo, water is coming forth from the right side. In the going out of the man eastward, and a line in his hand, then he measureeth a thousand by the cubit, and he causeth me to pass over into water, water to the ankles. And he measureeth a thousand, and causeth me to pass over into water, water to the knees. And he measureeth a thousand, and causeth me to pass over, water to the loins. And he measureeth a thousand, a stream that I am not able to pass over, for risen half the waters, waters to swim in, a stream that is not passed over. And he saith unto me, Hast thou seen, son of man? And he leadeth me, and bringeth me back unto the edge of the stream. In my turning back then, lo, at the edge of the stream are very many trees on this side and on that side. And he saith unto me, These waters are going forth unto the east circuit, and have gone down unto the desert, and have entered the sea. Unto the sea they are brought forth, and the waters have been healed. And it hath come to pass every living creature that teemeth, whither so ever the streams come, doth live. And there hath been great abundance of fish, for these waters have come thither, and they are healed. And everything whither the stream cometh hath lived. And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En Gedi even unto En Eglaim, a spreading place of nets they are. According to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many. Its myery and its marshy places, they are not healed. To salt they have been given up. And by the stream there cometh up on its edge, on this side and on that side. Every kind of fruit tree whose leaf fadeeth not, and not consumed is its fruit. According to its months it yieldeth first fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth, and its fruits hath been for food, and its leaf for medicine. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, this is the border where by ye inherit the land. According to the twelve tribes of Israel, Joseph hath portions, and ye have inherited it, one as well as another, in that I have lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers, and this land hath fallen to you in inheritance. And this is the border of the land at the north quarter, from the great sea, the way of Hefran at the coming in to Zidad. Hamath, Barotha, Sibrayim, that is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath. Hazar Hatikan, that is at the coast of Havran. And the border from the sea hath been Hazar Inan, the border of Damascus, and Zafan at the north, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north quarter. And the east quarter is from between Havran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel to the Jordan, from the border over against the eastern sea ye measure. And this is the east quarter. And the south quarter southward is from Tamar, unto the waters of Merabav Kadesh, the stream unto the great sea. And this is the south quarter southward. And the west quarter is the great sea, from the border till over against the coming into Hamath. This is the west quarter. And ye have divided this land to you, according to the tribes of Israel. And it hath come to pass ye separated foreign inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst. And they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated foreign inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. And it hath come to pass in the tribe with which this sojourner sojourneth. There ye give his inheritance an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Chapter 48 And these are the names of the tribes, from the north end unto the side of the way of Hethlon, at the coming into Hamath, Hazar-inan, the border of Damascus northward, unto the side of Hamath, and they have been his side east and west, Dan one. And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher one. And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naftali one. And by the border of Naftali, from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh one. And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim one. And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, Ruben one. And by the border of Rubin from the east side unto the west side, Judah won. And by the border of Judah from the east side unto the west side is the heave offering that ye lift up five and twenty thousand broad and long as one of the parts from the east side unto the west side, and the sanctuary have been in its midst. The heave offering that ye lift up to Jehovah is five and twenty thousand long and broad ten thousand. And of these is the holy heave offering for the priests northward five and twenty thousand, and westward in breadth ten thousand, and eastward in breadth ten thousand, and southward in length five and twenty thousand, and the sanctuary of Jehovah have been in its midst. For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel as the Levites erred, even the heave offering have been to them out of the heave offering of the land most holy by the border of the Levites. And to the Levites over against the border of the priests are five and twenty thousand in length, and in breadth ten thousand. All the length is five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand. And they do not sell of it, nor exchange, nor cause to pass away the first fruit of the land, for it is holy to Jehovah, and the five thousand that is left in the breadth on the front of the five and twenty thousand is common, for the city for dwelling and for suburb and the city have been in its midst, and these are its measures. The north side five hundred and four thousand, and the south side five hundred and four thousand, and on the east side five hundred and four thousand, and the west side five hundred and four thousand. And the suburb to the city have been northward fifty and two hundred, and southward fifty and two hundred, and eastward fifty and two hundred, and westward fifty and two hundred. And the residue in length over against the heave offering of the holy portion is ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward, and it have been over against the heave offering of the holy portion, and its increase have been for food to the servants of the city. Even to him who is serving the city, they serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. All the heave offering is five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand. Square do ye lift up the heave offering of the holy portion with the possession of the city, and the residue is for the prince. On this side and on that side of the heave offering of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, on the front of the five and twenty thousand of the heave offering unto the east border, and westward, on the front of the five and twenty thousand on the west border over against the portions of the prince, and the heave offering of the holy portion and the sanctuary of the house have been in its midst, and from the possession of the Levites, from the possession of the city, in the midst of that which is to the prince, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, there is to the prince. As to the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin won. And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon won. And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar won. And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun won. And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad won. And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border hath been from Talmar to the waters of Miraboth Kadesh, the stream by the great sea. This is the land that ye separate by inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. And these are the outgoings of the city on the north side, five hundred and four thousand measures. And the gates of the city are according to the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward, the gate of Reuben won, the gate of Judah won, the gate of Levi won. And on the east side, five hundred and four thousand, and three gates, the gate of Joseph won, the gate of Benjamin won, the gate of Dan won. And the south side, five hundred and four thousand measures, and three gates, the gate of Simeon won, the gate of Issachar won, the gate of Zebulun won. The west side, five hundred and four thousand, their gates three, the gate of Gad won, the gate of Asher won, the gate of Nathalai won. Roundabout is eighteen thousand, and the renown of the city is from the day Jehovah is there. The end of chapters forty-three through forty-eight, and the end of the book of Ezekiel from the young's literal translation of the Bible. By Mark Penfold.