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And he said to me, Son of man, as for the place of my throne, and as for the place of the soles of my feet, [they will be] where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;

You shall give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin-offering.

And you shall take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

And on the second day you shall offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

And you shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering to Yahweh.

Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so they shall consecrate it.

And Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

And you have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Yet they shall be ministering in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

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

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

And they shall go in to no dead of man to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

And the first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an oblation to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand [reeds], and the width shall be twenty thousand: it shall be holy in all the border thereof round about.

Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in width], square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.

It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, that come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in width, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] cities to live in.

And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, side by side with the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.