¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

² And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?

³ And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself, to defile herself.

⁴ Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.

⁵ Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.

⁶ Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

⁷ They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

⁸ Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.

⁹ Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.

¹⁰ They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.

¹¹ And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

¹² They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and then hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

¹³ Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou hast exercised and at the blood that hath been shed: In the midst of thee.

¹⁴ Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail ill the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

¹⁵ And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.

¹⁶ And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

¹⁷ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel is become dress to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dress of silver.

¹⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned into dress, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem.

²⁰ As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt you down.

²¹ And I will gather you together, and will burn you in the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.

²² As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have poured out my indignation upon you.

²³ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

²⁴ Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof.

²⁶ Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

²⁷ Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness.

²⁸ And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny without judgment.

³⁰ And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.

³¹ And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their own head, saith the Lord God.

²¹ As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

¹ "Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.

² The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.

³ Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

⁴ You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling; and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.

⁵ You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another.

⁶ You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be a unit.

⁷ "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make them eleven curtains.

⁸ The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.

⁹ You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.

¹⁰ You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling.

¹¹ You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

¹² The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

¹³ The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

¹⁴ You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

¹⁵ "You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

¹⁶ Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.

¹⁷ There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

¹⁸ You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.

¹⁹ You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

²⁰ For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,

²¹ and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

²² For the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.

²³ You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.

²⁴ They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

²⁵ There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

²⁶ "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

²⁷ and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward.

²⁸ The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.

²⁹ You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

³⁰ You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

³¹ "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.

³² You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.

³³ You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.

³⁴ You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

³⁵ You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.

³⁶ "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.

³⁷ You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.