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there they rinse the burnt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>In the porch of the gate <i>were</i> two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>On the outer side, as one went up to the gateway toward the north, <i>were</i> two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate <i>were</i> two tables. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>Four tables <i>were</i> on each side next to the gate; <i>or,</i> eight tables on which they slaughter <i>sacrifices.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>For the burnt offering <i>there were</i> four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables <i>was</i> the flesh of the offering. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, <i>one of</i> which was at the side of the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one at the side of the south gate facing toward the north. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>He said to me, This is the chamber which faces toward the south, <i>intended</i> for the priests who keep charge of the temple; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> to minister to Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>He measured the court, a <i>perfect</i> square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the temple. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured <i>each</i> side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/40-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>The length of the porch <i>was</i> twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended <i>were</i> columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/40.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/40.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/ezekiel/40.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And there was a cell and its entry by the posts of the gates; there they rinsed the burnt-offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/40.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/40.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the chambers and its entries were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/40.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />A room with its door was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/40.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And the chamber and its opening is by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_22_the_parts_of.htm">The Parts of the City. Sion. The Upper City: which was on the North Part. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">There is one who asserts Jerusalem to stand on seven hills; but whether upon a reason more light, or more obscure, is not easy to say. "The whale showed Jonah (saith he) the Temple of the Lord, as it is said, 'I went down to the bottom of the mountains': whence we learn that Jerusalem was seated upon seven mountains." One may sooner almost prove the thing itself, than approve of his argument. Let him enjoy his argument to himself; we must fetch the situation elsewhere. "The city itself (saith Josephus) <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_22_the_parts_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xix_jesus_tempted_in_the.htm">Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">^A Matt. IV. 1-11; ^B Mark I. 12, 13; ^C Luke IV. 1-13. ^c 1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, ^b 12 And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth ^c and ^a 1 Then [Just after his baptism, with the glow of the descended Spirit still upon him, and the commending voice of the Father still ringing in his ears, Jesus is rushed into the suffering of temptation. Thus abrupt and violent are the changes of life. The spiritually exalted may expect these sharp contrasts. After being <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xix_jesus_tempted_in_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/4_the_millennium_in_relation.htm">The Millennium in Relation to Israel. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land" (Gen. 15:17, 18). Here the two great periods of Israel's history was made known to Abram in figure. The vision of the smoking furnace and the burning lamp intimated that the history of Abraham's descendants was to be a checkered one. It was a prophecy in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/4_the_millennium_in_relation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arthur W. Pink—</span><span class="citation2">The Redeemer's Return</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_holy_city_or_the.htm">The Holy City; Or, the New Jerusalem:</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHEREIN ITS GOODLY LIGHT, WALLS, GATES, ANGELS, AND THE MANNER OF THEIR STANDING, ARE EXPOUNDED: ALSO HER LENGTH AND BREADTH, TOGETHER WITH THE GOLDEN MEASURING-REED EXPLAINED: AND THE GLORY OF ALL UNFOLDED. AS ALSO THE NUMEROUSNESS OF ITS INHABITANTS; AND WHAT THE TREE AND WATER OF LIFE ARE, BY WHICH THEY ARE SUSTAINED. 'Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.'-Psalm 87:3 'And the name of the city from that day shall be, THE LORD IS THERE.'-Ezekiel 48:35 London: Printed in the year 1665 <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_holy_city_or_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a><br></span><span class="snippet">To a modern taste, Ezekiel does not appeal anything like so powerfully as Isaiah or Jeremiah. He has neither the majesty of the one nor the tenderness and passion of the other. There is much in him that is fantastic, and much that is ritualistic. His imaginations border sometimes on the grotesque and sometimes on the mechanical. Yet he is a historical figure of the first importance; it was very largely from him that Judaism received the ecclesiastical impulse by which for centuries it was powerfully <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/ezekiel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/40-38.htm">Ezekiel 40:38 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/40-38.htm">Ezekiel 40:38 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/ezekiel/40-38.htm">Ezekiel 40:38 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/40-38.htm">Ezekiel 40:38 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/40-38.htm">Ezekiel 40:38 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/40-38.htm">Ezekiel 40:38 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/ezekiel/40-38.htm">Ezekiel 40:38 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/40-37.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 40:37"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 40:37" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/40-39.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 40:39"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 40:39" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/ezekiel/40-38.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>