¹ Il me ramena vers la porte extérieure du sanctuaire, du côté de l'orient. Mais elle était fermée.

² Et l'Eternel me dit: Cette porte sera fermée, elle ne s'ouvrira point, et personne n'y passera; car l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël est entré par là. Elle restera fermée.

³ Pour ce qui concerne le prince, le prince pourra s'y asseoir, pour manger le pain devant l'Eternel; il entrera par le chemin du vestibule de la porte, et il sortira par le même chemin.

⁴ Il me conduisit vers la porte du septentrion, devant la maison. Je regardai, et voici, la gloire de l'Eternel remplissait la maison de l'Eternel. Et je tombai sur ma face.

⁵ L'Eternel me dit: Fils de l'homme, sois attentif, et regarde de tes yeux! Ecoute de tes oreilles tout ce que je te dirai au sujet de toutes les ordonnances de la maison de L'Eternel et de toutes ses lois; considère attentivement l'entrée de la maison et toutes les issues du sanctuaire.

⁶ Tu diras aux rebelles, à la maison d'Israël: Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel: Assez de toutes vos abominations, maison d'Israël!

⁷ Vous avez introduit dans mon sanctuaire des étrangers incirconcis de coeur et incirconcis de chair, pour profaner ma maison; vous avez offert mon pain, la graisse et le sang à toutes vos abominations, vous avez rompu mon alliance.

⁸ Vous n'avez pas fait le service de mon sanctuaire, mais vous les avez mis à votre place pour faire le service dans mon sanctuaire.

⁹ Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel: Aucun étranger, incirconcis de coeur et incirconcis de chair, n'entrera dans mon sanctuaire, aucun des étrangers qui seront au milieu des enfants d'Israël.

¹⁰ De plus, les Lévites qui se sont éloignés de moi, quand Israël s'égarait et se détournait de moi pour suivre ses idoles, porteront la peine de leur iniquité.

¹¹ Ils seront dans mon sanctuaire comme serviteurs, ils auront la garde des portes de la maison; et feront le service de la maison; ils égorgeront pour le peuple les victimes destinées aux holocaustes et aux autres sacrifices, et ils se tiendront devant lui pour être à son service.

¹² Parce qu'ils l'ont servi devant ses idoles, et qu'ils ont fait tomber dans le péché la maison d'Israël, je lève ma main sur eux, dit le Seigneur, l'Eternel, pour qu'ils portent la peine de leur iniquité.

¹³ Ils ne s'approcheront pas de moi pour être à mon service dans le sacerdoce, ils ne s'approcheront pas de mes sanctuaires, de mes lieux très saints; ils porteront la peine de leur ignominie et des abominations qu'ils ont commises.

¹⁴ Je leur donnerai la garde de la maison, et ils en feront tout le service et tout ce qui doit s'y faire.

¹⁵ Mais les sacrificateurs, les Lévites, fils de Tsadok, qui ont fait le service de mon sanctuaire quand les enfants d'Israël s'égaraient loin de moi, ceux-là s'approcheront de moi pour me servir, et se tiendront devant moi pour m'offrir la graisse et le sang, dit le Seigneur, l'Eternel.

¹⁶ Ils entreront dans mon sanctuaire, ils s'approcheront de ma table pour me servir, ils seront à mon service.

¹⁷ Lorsqu'ils franchiront les portes du parvis intérieur, ils revêtiront des habits de lin; ils n'auront sur eux rien qui soit en laine, quand ils feront le service aux portes du parvis intérieur et dans la maison.

¹⁸ Ils auront des tiares de lin sur la tête, et des caleçons de lin sur leurs reins; ils ne se ceindront point de manière à exciter la sueur.

¹⁹ Lorsqu'ils sortiront pour aller dans le parvis extérieur, dans le parvis extérieur vers le peuple, ils ôteront les vêtements avec lesquels ils font le service, et les déposeront dans les chambres du sanctuaire; ils en mettront d'autres, afin de ne pas sanctifier le peuple par leurs vêtements.

²⁰ Ils ne se raseront pas la tête, et ne laisseront pas non plus croître leurs cheveux; mais ils devront couper leur chevelure.

²¹ Aucun sacrificateur ne boira du vin lorsqu'il entrera dans le parvis intérieur.

²² Ils ne prendront pour femme ni une veuve, ni une femme répudiée, mais ils prendront des vierges de la race de la maison d'Israël; ils pourront aussi prendre la veuve d'un sacrificateur.

²³ Ils enseigneront à mon peuple à distinguer ce qui est saint de ce qui est profane, ils lui feront connaître la différence entre ce qui est impur et ce qui est pur.

²⁴ Ils seront juges dans les contestations, et ils jugeront d'après mes lois. Ils observeront aussi mes lois et mes ordonnances dans toutes mes fêtes, et ils sanctifieront mes sabbats.

²⁵ Un sacrificateur n'ira pas vers un mort, de peur de se rendre impur; il ne pourra se rendre impur que pour un père, pour une mère, pour un fils, pour une fille, pour un frère, et pour une soeur qui n'était pas mariée.

²⁶ Après sa purification, on lui comptera sept jours.

²⁷ Le jour où il entrera dans le sanctuaire, dans le parvis intérieur, pour faire le service dans le sanctuaire, il offrira son sacrifice d'expiation, dit le Seigneur, l'Eternel.

²⁸ Voici l'héritage qu'ils auront: c'est moi qui serai leur héritage. Vous ne leur donnerez point de possession en Israël: je serai leur possession.

²⁹ Ils se nourriront des offrandes, des sacrifices d'expiation et de culpabilité; et tout ce qui sera dévoué par interdit en Israël sera pour eux.

³⁰ Les prémices de tous les fruits, et toutes les offrandes que vous présenterez par élévation, appartiendront aux sacrificateurs; vous donnerez aux sacrificateurs les prémices de votre pâte, afin que la bénédiction repose sur votre maison.

³¹ Les sacrificateurs ne mangeront d'aucun oiseau et d'aucun animal mort ou déchiré.

¹ In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.

² In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.

³ He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

⁴ The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

⁵ Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

⁶ Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

⁷ Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

⁸ He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

⁹ Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

¹⁰ The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

¹¹ He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

¹² and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

¹³ He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.

¹⁴ He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, around the gate.

¹⁵ [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

¹⁶ There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.

¹⁷ Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the pavement.

¹⁸ The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

¹⁹ Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.

²⁰ The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth.

²¹ The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

²² The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them.

²³ There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.

²⁴ He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.

²⁵ There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

²⁶ There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.

²⁷ There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.

²⁸ Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

²⁹ and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

³⁰ There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.

³¹ The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

³² He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

³³ and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

³⁴ The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

³⁵ He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;

³⁶ its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

³⁷ The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

³⁸ A room with its door was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

³⁹ In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

⁴⁰ On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.

⁴¹ Four tables were on this side, and Four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the sacrifices].

⁴² There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

⁴³ The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

⁴⁴ Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

⁴⁵ He said to me, This room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house;

⁴⁶ and the room whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.

⁴⁷ He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.

⁴⁸ Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

⁴⁹ The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.