¹ 以後，他带我到一座门，就是朝东的门。

² 以色列神的荣光从东而来。他的声音如同多水的声音；地就因他的荣耀发光。

³ 其状如从前他来灭城的时候我所见的异象，那异象如我在迦巴鲁河边所见的异象，我就俯伏在地。

⁴ 耶和华的荣光从朝东的门照入殿中。

⁵ 灵将我举起，带入内院，不料，耶和华的荣光充满了殿。

⁶ 我听见有一位从殿中对我说话。有一人站在我旁边。

⁷ 他对我说：人子啊，这是我宝座之地，是我脚掌所踏之地。我要在这里住，在以色列人中直到永远。以色列家和他们的君王必不再玷污我的圣名，就是行邪淫、在锡安的高处葬埋他们君王的尸首，

⁸ 使他们的门槛挨近我的门槛，他们的门框挨近我的门框；他们与我中间仅隔一墙，并且行可憎的事，玷污了我的圣名，所以我发怒灭绝他们。

⁹ 现在他们当从我面前远除邪淫和他们君王的尸首，我就住在他们中间直到永远。

¹⁰ 人子啊，你要将这殿指示以色列家，使他们因自己的罪孽惭愧，也要他们量殿的尺寸。

¹¹ 他们若因自己所行的一切事惭愧，你就将殿的规模、样式、出入之处，和一切形状、典章、礼仪、法则指示他们，在他们眼前写上，使他们遵照殿的一切规模典章去做。

¹² 殿的法则乃是如此：殿在山顶上，四围的全界要称为至圣。这就是殿的法则。

¹³ 以下量祭坛，是以肘为度（这肘是一肘零一掌）。底座高一肘，边宽一肘，四围起边高一掌，这是坛的座。

¹⁴ 从底座到下层磴台，高二肘，边宽一肘。从小磴台到大磴台，高四肘，边宽一肘。

¹⁵ 坛上的供台，高四肘。供台的四拐角上都有角。

¹⁶ 供台长十二肘，宽十二肘，四面见方；

¹⁷ 磴台长十四肘，宽十四肘，四面见方。四围起边高半肘，底座四围的边，宽一肘。

¹⁸ 祂对我说：“人子啊，主耶和华如此说：建造祭坛，为要在其上献燔祭洒血，造成的时候典章如下。

¹⁹ 主耶和华说，你要将一只公牛犊作为赎罪祭，给祭司利未人撒督的後裔，就是那亲近我、事奉我的。

²⁰ 你要取些公牛的血，抹在坛的四角和磴台的四拐角，并四围所起的边上。你这样洁净坛，坛就洁净了。

²¹ 你又要将那作赎罪祭的公牛犊烧在殿外、圣地之外预定之处。

²² 次日，要将无残疾的公山羊献为赎罪祭；要洁净坛，像用公牛犊洁净的一样。

²³ 洁净了坛，就要将一只无残疾的公牛犊和羊群中一只无残疾的公绵羊

²⁴ 奉到耶和华前。祭司要撒盐在其上，献与耶和华为燔祭。

²⁵ 七日内，每日要预备一只公山羊为赎罪祭，也要预备一只公牛犊和羊群中的一只公绵羊，都要没有残疾的。

²⁶ 七日祭司洁净坛，坛就洁净了；要这样把坛分别为圣。

²⁷ 满了七日，自八日以後，祭司要在坛上献你们的燔祭和平安祭；我必悦纳你们。这是主耶和华说的。

¹ Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

² Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

³ explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."

⁴ Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

⁵ But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

⁶ When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

⁷ whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"

⁸ The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

⁹ When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

¹⁰ The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

¹¹ Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

¹² Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

¹⁴ Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

¹⁵ But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

¹⁶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

¹⁷ So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁹ They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

²⁰ For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

²¹ Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

²² Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

²³ For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

²⁵ neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

²⁶ He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

²⁷ that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

²⁸ 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

²⁹ Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

³⁰ The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

³¹ because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

³² Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

³³ Thus Paul went out from among them.

³⁴ But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.