Ezekiel 43:12
What does Ezekiel 43:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 43:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
KJV
King James Version · 1611This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862This <FI>is<Fi> a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all round about <FI>is<Fi> most holy; lo, this <FI>is<Fi> a law of the house.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain: All its border round about; most holy: this then is the law of the house.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain all its border round about is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Context
v.11And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
v.12This passage
v.13And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 93:5
Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thy house, O Jehovah, for evermore.
- Zechariah 14:20
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLY UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in Jehovah’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
- Revelation 21:27
and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
- Joel 3:17
So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
- Ezekiel 42:20
He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
- Ezekiel 40:2
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
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