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Sacrificial Facilities and Priestly Chambers
Ezekiel 40:38-47
38
There was a room with its entry by the supports at the gates where the burnt offerings were washed.
39
In the entranceway to the gate were two tables on the one side and two on the other, on which to slaughter the burnt offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings.
40
On the outside, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side of the entranceway to the gate were two tables.
41
So there were four tables on the one side and four on the other side, by the gate - eight tables on which to slaughter sacrifices.
42
There were four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, thirty-one-and-a-half inches square and twenty-one inches high, on which to lay the instruments for slaughtering the burnt offerings and other sacrifices.
43
Hooks a handbreadth long were fastened all around the inside of the room; the flesh of the offerings was to be placed on the tables.
44
Outside the inner gate, in the inner courtyard, were rooms for the singers, one facing south alongside the north gate, and one facing north alongside the east gate.
45
He said to me, "This room facing south is for the cohanim in charge of the house;
46
while the room facing north is for the cohanim in charge of the altar; these are the descendants of Tzadok, who are the descendants of Levi designated to approach ADONAI and serve him."
47
Then he measured the courtyard at 175 feet long and 175 feet wide - it was square. The altar was in front of the house.
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