Ezekiel 42 Cross References - NSB

¹ The man led me out to the north to the outer courtyard. He brought me to the side rooms opposite both the open area and the northern building. ² The building that faced north was one hundred and seventy-five feet long and eighty-seven and one half feet wide. ³ Opposite the inner courtyard was an area that was thirty-five feet wide, and opposite the pavement of the outer courtyard were corridors facing corridors on all three stories. ⁴ In front of the side rooms was a walkway. It was seventeen and one half feet wide and one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The doors of these side rooms faced north. ⁵ The side rooms on the third story were narrower than those on the first or second stories of the building because the corridors took space away from them. ⁶ The rooms were in three stories. They did not have pillars like the pillars in the courtyards. That is why the rooms on the third story were set farther back than those on the first and second stories. ⁷ There was a wall that ran parallel to the side rooms and the outer courtyard. It ran alongside the side rooms for eighty-seven and one half feet. ⁸ The row of rooms in the outer courtyard was eighty-seven and one half feet long. The rooms that faced the temple were one hundred and seventy-five feet long. ⁹ These lower side rooms had an entrance on the east side. A person was able to enter the outer courtyard through them. ¹⁰ There were side rooms parallel to the wall of the courtyard on the south side. They faced the open area and the building. ¹¹ There was a walkway in front of them. It was like the one that was in front of the side rooms on the north side. These side rooms were as long and as wide as the northern rooms. They had similar exits, dimensions, and doors. ¹² The doors to the south rooms were the same as the doors to the north rooms. There was a doorway at the other end of the walkway that was parallel to the corresponding wall that ran eastward. People entered through that doorway. ¹³ The man said: »The northern and southern side rooms that face the open area are holy rooms. These rooms are where the priests who come near Jehovah eat the holiest offerings. Because these rooms are holy, the priests keep the holiest offerings there: the grain offerings, the offerings for sin, and the guilt offerings. ¹⁴ Once the priests enter the Holy Place, they must not go out of the Holy Place into the outer courtyard until they leave behind the clothes that they wore as they served. These clothes are holy. The priests must put on other clothes. Then they can go into the area that is for the people. ¹⁵ When the man had finished measuring the inner part of the temple area, he led me out through the east gate. Then he measured all the way around the outer area. ¹⁶ He measured the east side with a measuring stick. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. ¹⁷ He measured the north side. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. ¹⁸ He measured the south side. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. ¹⁹ He came around to the west side and measured it. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. ²⁰ He measured all four sides. There was a wall all around it. The wall was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long and eight hundred and seventy-five feet wide. It separated what was holy from what was unholy.

⁴⁰ »Make linen robes, belts, and turbans for Aaron’s sons. These clothes will give them dignity and honor. ⁴¹ »Dress your brother Aaron and his sons in these clothes and anoint them, ordain them, and set them apart to serve me as priests. ⁴² »Make linen undergarments to cover them down to their thighs. ⁴³ »Aaron and his sons must wear them when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to serve as priests in the holy place. They will be blameless and will not die. This is a long lasting law for him and his descendants.

⁴ »Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the sacred tent of meeting and have them wash themselves. ⁵ »Aaron should dress in the priestly shirt and robe under the sacred vest. Put on the vest, the breast piece, and the sash. ⁶ »Put on his turban with its narrow strip of engraved gold. ⁷ »Ordain him by pouring olive oil on his head. ⁸ »Aaron’s sons should dress in their special shirts, caps and sashes. ⁹ »Then ordain them, because they and their descendants will have a long lasting priesthood.

³¹ »You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

³ »‘The rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is most holy and set apart from Jehovah’s offering by fire.

¹⁰ »‘The rest of the offering belongs to the priests. It is very holy, since it is taken from the food offered to Jehovah.

¹⁴ »‘This is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it in the presence of Jehovah in front of the altar. ¹⁵ »‘One of them will lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering. Using its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he will offer it up in smoke on the altar. It will be a soothing aroma and a memorial offering to Jehovah. ¹⁶ »‘Any thing left is for Aaron and his sons to eat. It will be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place. They must eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting. ¹⁷ »‘It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from my offerings by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

²⁵ »Tell Aaron and his sons: ‘These are the instructions for the offering for sin. The offering for sin must be slaughtered in Jehovah’s presence. It is very holy. ²⁶ »‘The priest who makes the offering for sin will eat it in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. This is in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

²⁹ »‘Every male among the priests may eat the offering for sin. It is very holy.

¹ »‘These are the instructions for the guilt offering. It is very holy.

⁶ »‘Every male among the priests may eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is very holy.

⁷ He clothed Aaron with the embroidered tunic and tied the sash around him. He also dressed him in the linen robe that is worn with the ephod. He fastened the ephod to it.

¹³ Next, Moses dressed the sons of Aaron. He put shirts on them; put sashes around their waists, and tied caps on their heads, just as Jehovah commanded.

³³ »You will not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days. Do not leave until the last day of your ordination is over. It will take seven days to ordain you. ³⁴ »I did today what Jehovah commanded me to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for you. ³⁵ »You will stay at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the watch as Jehovah directs you. Then you will not die. This is what I was commanded.«

³ Moses said to Aaron: »This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: ‘All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.’« But Aaron remained silent.

¹⁰ »You must learn the difference (distinction) between what is holy and what is not holy and between the clean and the unclean.

¹³ »Eat it in a holy place. It is the part that belongs to you and your sons from the food offered to Jehovah. That is what Jehovah commanded me. ¹⁴ »You and your families may eat the breast and the hind leg that are presented as the special gift and the special contribution to Jehovah for the priests. You may eat them in any ritually clean place. These offerings have been given to you and your children as the part that belongs to you from the fellowship offerings of the people of Israel.

¹⁷ »Why did you not eat the sin offering in a sacred place? It is very holy! Jehovah gave it to you in order to take away the sin of the community.

¹³ »He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the animals for the sin offerings and the burnt offerings are slaughtered. He must do this because the repayment offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest and is very holy.

²² »‘He may eat the food of his God, what is holy and what is very holy.

⁹ »The bread will belong to Aaron and his sons. They will eat it in a holy place. It is very holy, set apart from Jehovah’s offering by fire. This is a long lasting law.«

⁹ »Eliab, son of Helon, from the tribe of Zebulun; ¹⁰ »Elishama, son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Ephraim; Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, from the tribe of Manasseh; Ephraim and Manasseh are Joseph’s descendants.

⁵ Then he said to Korah and all his followers: »In the morning Jehovah will show who belongs to him, who is holy. He will have that person come near him. Only the person Jehovah chooses will be allowed to come near him.

⁴⁰ He followed Jehovah’s command given through Moses. The copper-covered altar will remind Israel that no one but a descendant of Aaron may come near to burn incense to Jehovah. Everyone else will die like Korah and his followers.

⁷ »Only you and your sons may do the work of priests, everything done at the altar and under the canopy. This is my gift to you: You may serve me as priests. Anyone else who comes near the holy place to do this work must die.«

⁹ »That part of the most holy offerings that is not burned belongs to you. It may come from a grain offering, an offering for sin, or a guilt offering. Whatever is brought to me, as a most holy offering will belong to you and your sons. ¹⁰ »Eat it in a most holy place. Any male may eat it. You must consider it holy.

⁵ »Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near. Jehovah your God has chosen them to serve him and to bless in the name of Jehovah. They will settle every dispute and every assault.

⁸ The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple. It had stairs leading up to the second and third stories.

³ When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and Jehovah’s glory on the Temple, they knelt down with their faces on the pavement. They worshiped and praised Jehovah. They said: »He is good; his mercy (lovingkindness) endures forever.«

⁵ Had made a great room ready for him. This is where they once kept the meal offerings, the perfume, the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil. They were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

¹⁷ »The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

⁹ »My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks through the windows, gazing through the lattice.

⁵ »Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

¹ O Jehovah, you are my God. I will exalt you and I will praise your name! You have done wonderful things with plans formed of old. You are faithful and true.

¹ »We have a strong city. God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.«

¹⁸ »You will no longer hear about violence in your land or desolation and destruction within your borders. You will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

¹⁰ I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah. I will exult in my God for he has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

²⁶ ‘»Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

² In visions, God brought me to Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. On the south side of the mountain were buildings that looked like those in a city. ³ He brought me closer. I saw a man who looked like he was covered with bronze. The man was holding a linen tape measure and a measuring stick, and he stood in a gateway.

³ He brought me closer. I saw a man who looked like he was covered with bronze. The man was holding a linen tape measure and a measuring stick, and he stood in a gateway.

⁵ I saw a wall that surrounded the Temple. The man had a measuring stick that was ten and one half feet long. He measured the wall. It was ten and one half feet thick and ten and one half feet high. ⁶ The man went to the gateway that faced east. He went up its steps and measured the entrance to the gateway. It was ten and one half feet wide. ⁷ There were also guardrooms. Each guardroom was ten and one half feet long and ten and one half feet wide. The space between the guardrooms was nine feet thick. And the entrance to the gateway by the entrance hall of the temple was ten and one half feet wide. ⁸ He also measured the entrance hall of the gateway. ⁹ It extended fourteen feet from the Temple. Its recessed walls were three and one half feet thick. The gateway's entrance hall faced the Temple. ¹⁰ There were three guardrooms on each side of the eastern gateway. All three rooms on each side were the same size, and the recessed walls on each side were the same size. ¹¹ The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway. It was seventeen and one half feet wide, and the gateway was twenty-three feet long. ¹² There was a barrier about twenty-one inches in front of each guardroom. The guardrooms were ten and one half feet square. ¹³ He measured the gateway from the top of one guardroom to the top of the opposite guardroom. It was forty-four feet wide from one door to the opposite door. ¹⁴ He also measured the entrance hall. It was thirty-five feet wide. In front of the entrance hall to the gateway was a courtyard on all sides. ¹⁵ The total length of the gateway from the front of the outer part to the front of the inner part of the entrance hall was eighty-seven and one half feet. ¹⁶ The guardrooms and recessed walls inside the gateway had small windows all around. The entrance hall also had windows all around on the inside. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls. ¹⁷ Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard. I saw rooms there and pavement all around the courtyard. There were thirty rooms along the edge of the pavement.

¹⁷ Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard. I saw rooms there and pavement all around the courtyard. There were thirty rooms along the edge of the pavement. ¹⁸ The pavement in the lower courtyard ran alongside the gateways. It was as wide as it was long.

²⁰ The man measured the length and width of the gateway, leading to the outer courtyard. This was the gateway that faced north.

²⁴ The man led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway that faced south. He measured its recessed walls and its entrance hall. They were the same size as those of the other gateways.

⁴⁶ The room that faces north is for the priests who serve at the altar. These priests are Zadok's descendants. They are the only Levites who are able to come near Jehovah and serve him.«

¹ The man brought me into the Holy Place in the Temple and measured the recessed walls. They were ten and one half feet wide on each side. ² The entrance was seventeen and one half feet wide, and on each side of the entrance the walls were nine feet wide. Then he measured the length of the holy place. It was seventy feet long and thirty-five feet wide. ³ He went inside and measured the passageway. It was three and one half feet thick. The entrance was ten and one half feet high and twelve feet wide. ⁴ He measured the room at the end of the holy place. It was thirty-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide. The man said: »This is the Most Holy Place (Holy of Holies).« ⁵ Next, the man measured the Temple wall. It was ten and one half feet wide, and each side room around the Temple was seven feet. ⁶ The rooms were arranged on three different stories. There were thirty rooms on each story. These rooms had supports all the way around the Temple wall, but these supports were not fastened to the Temple wall. ⁷ The side rooms grew wider all the way around as they went up, story after story. The surrounding structure went from story to story all around the Temple. The structure grew wider as it went higher. A stairway went from the first story through the second story to the third story.

⁹ The outer wall of the side rooms was nine feet thick. There was an open area between the side rooms connected to the Temple ¹⁰ and the priests' rooms. It was thirty-five feet wide and went all around the Temple.

¹² At the far end of the open area, on the west side of the temple, was a building one hundred twenty-two and one-half feet wide. The wall of the building was nine feet thick all the way around, and it was one hundred fifty seven and one half feet long. ¹³ The man measured the Temple. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. This included the open area with the building and its walls. All together it was one hundred and seventy-five feet long.

¹³ The man measured the Temple. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. This included the open area with the building and its walls. All together it was one hundred and seventy-five feet long.

¹³ The man measured the Temple. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. This included the open area with the building and its walls. All together it was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. ¹⁴ The eastern side of the Temple, including the open area, was also one hundred and seventy-five feet wide.

¹⁴ The eastern side of the Temple, including the open area, was also one hundred and seventy-five feet wide. ¹⁵ He also measured the length of the building facing the courtyard on the west side along with its corridors on both sides. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The holy place and the Most Holy Place were paneled.

¹⁵ He also measured the length of the building facing the courtyard on the west side along with its corridors on both sides. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The holy place and the Most Holy Place were paneled.

¹⁵ He also measured the length of the building facing the courtyard on the west side along with its corridors on both sides. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The holy place and the Most Holy Place were paneled. ¹⁶ The doorposts, the small windows, and the corridors of all three stories were paneled. The walls, from the floor up to the windows, were paneled.

¹ The man led me out to the north to the outer courtyard. He brought me to the side rooms opposite both the open area and the northern building.

⁴ In front of the side rooms was a walkway. It was seventeen and one half feet wide and one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The doors of these side rooms faced north. ⁵ The side rooms on the third story were narrower than those on the first or second stories of the building because the corridors took space away from them.

⁷ There was a wall that ran parallel to the side rooms and the outer courtyard. It ran alongside the side rooms for eighty-seven and one half feet.

¹⁰ There were side rooms parallel to the wall of the courtyard on the south side. They faced the open area and the building.

¹² The doors to the south rooms were the same as the doors to the north rooms. There was a doorway at the other end of the walkway that was parallel to the corresponding wall that ran eastward. People entered through that doorway. ¹³ The man said: »The northern and southern side rooms that face the open area are holy rooms. These rooms are where the priests who come near Jehovah eat the holiest offerings. Because these rooms are holy, the priests keep the holiest offerings there: the grain offerings, the offerings for sin, and the guilt offerings.

¹ The man took me to the east gate.

⁵ Jehovah said to me: »Son of man, pay close attention. Look, and listen to everything I tell you. Listen to all the rules and regulations for Jehovah’s Temple. Pay close attention to everyone who enters the Temple and leaves from the Holy Place.

¹⁹ »‘When they go out among the people in the outer courtyard, they must take off the clothes that they wore as they served. They must leave their clothes in the side rooms of the holy place and put on other clothes so that they do not transfer the holiness from their clothes to the people.

²³ »‘They must teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is unholy. They must show the people how to tell the difference between what is clean and what is unclean.

² »‘An area of eight hundred and seventy-five feet square will be for the holy place with an open area eighty-seven and one half feet wide.

¹⁵ »A strip of land, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty feet wide by forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet long, will be left for cities, homes, and pastures. The city will be in the middle of it.

²⁰ »The whole area will be forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet square. You must give this land as a special gift to Jehovah along with the city property.

¹⁹ The man brought me through a passage beside the gateway to the side rooms that faced north. These rooms were reserved for the priests. He showed me a place on the west side of the rooms.

¹¹ A day for building your walls! In that day the decree will be far removed.

¹ I lifted up my eyes and saw, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

⁵ Jehovah said: »I will become to her a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.«

⁴ He spoke to those who stood before him: »Take the filthy garments from him. Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with rich apparel.« ⁵ I said: »Let them set a clean headdress upon his head.« So they set a clean headdress upon his head, and clothed him with garments. The angel of Jehovah was standing nearby.

¹⁴ »Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way to life. Only a few put forth the effort. Yes, only a few people enter the narrow gate.

⁶² Jesus responded: »No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.«

²⁶ »There is a deep pit lying between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so. And no one can cross over to us from where you are.

²⁴ »Strive to go in through the narrow door. Many people will try to go in and will not be able.

²² God makes people righteous through their active faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all.

¹⁴ Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

¹⁷ Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)

²⁷ For as many of you who were baptized into Christ put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ.

⁵ Likewise, you younger men, be subject to the older men. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. God resists the proud, but gives loving kindness to the humble.

¹⁰ He carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy city Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. ¹¹ She had the glory of God. Her light was like a very precious stone, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. ¹² The city had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on each gate, the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: ¹³ On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ He who talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates and the wall. ¹⁶ And the city lies foursquare. The length is as large as the width. He measured the city with the reed, fourteen hundred miles. The length and the width and the height of it are equal. ¹⁷ He measured the wall, two hundred feet, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. ¹⁸ The structure of the wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass. ²² I saw no temple there: for the Jehovah God the Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. ²³ The city did not need the sun or the moon to shine on it. For the glory of God and of the Lamb was its light. ²⁴ The nations will walk by means of its light. The kings of the earth bring their glory into it. ²⁵ Its gates will not close in the daytime and there will be no night there. ²⁶ They will bring the glory of the nations into it. ²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it. The shameful and deceitful will not enter. Only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life will enter.

¹ There was given me a reed like a measuring rod: and the angel stood, saying: »Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship there. ² »Do not measure the court outside the temple for it is given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

² »Do not measure the court outside the temple for it is given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.