TBESH · H9005
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”
Read word by wordNext he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
Read word by wordAnd he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.
Read word by wordNext he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
Read word by wordThe side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
Read word by wordThe side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
Read word by wordI saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
Read word by wordThe outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
Read word by wordand the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
Read word by wordThe side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
Read word by wordThe width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
Read word by wordas well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.
Read word by wordIn the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,
Read word by wordwere alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:
Read word by wordThere was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
Read word by wordBoth the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,
Read word by wordand each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.
Read word by wordCherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.
Read word by wordGallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
Read word by wordIn front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
Read word by wordFor they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
Read word by wordAn outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
Read word by wordFor the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
Read word by wordAnd below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
Read word by wordwith a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.
Read word by wordThen the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
Read word by wordOnce the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”
Read word by wordSo he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
Read word by wordThe vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when He came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown,
Read word by wordand He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
Read word by wordNow let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.
Read word by wordand if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.
Read word by wordThe altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
Read word by wordThe ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
Read word by wordThen He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:
Read word by wordYou are to give a young bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are of the family of Zadok, who approach Me to minister before Me, declares the Lord GOD.
Read word by wordThen you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.
Read word by wordOn the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull.
Read word by wordYou must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.
Read word by wordFor seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both unblemished.
Read word by wordOnly the prince himself may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He must enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”
Read word by wordThe LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Read word by wordTell the rebellious house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I have had enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel.
Read word by wordIn addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
Read word by wordAnd you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
Read word by wordYet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and ministering there. They shall slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices for the people and stand before them to minister to them.
Read word by wordBecause they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.
Read word by wordThey must not approach Me to serve Me as priests or come near any of My holy things or the most holy things. They will bear the shame of the abominations they have committed.
Read word by wordYet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.
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