(8) his bone. And I beheld, 'and' lo, 'there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above: but there was no breath in 9 them. "Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they 10 may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great 11 army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; 12) we are clean cut off. Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the 13) land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, and 'caused' you Ito come up out of your graves, O my 14) people. And I will put my 'spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land: 'and' ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

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The word of the LORD came again 16 unto me, saying, "And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his com17 panions and join them for thee' one

to another into one stick, that they Imay become one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest 19 by these? say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and 'I' will put them with lit', even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their

1 Or, breath

2 Or, Ibreath

3 Or, Iwind! Or, Ispirit • Or, lofl

21 eyes. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations', whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22 and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two 23 kingdoms any more at all: neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them "out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them so shall they be my people, and 24) I will be their God. And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgements, and observe my statutes, and do them. (25) °And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, for ever and David my servant shall 26 be their prince for ever. °Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them: it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for 27 evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the 'nations' shall know that I Jam the LORD that sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

381 And the word of the LORD came 2 unto me, saying, "Son of man, set thy

face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the 10prince of Rosh', Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy 3 against him, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, 10prince of Rosh', Meshech, (4 and Tubal: and I will turn thee labout', and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armour, a

great company with buckler and Ishield', all of them handling swords: 5 °Persia, 'Cush', and 'Put' with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 6 °Gomer, and all his 'hordes'; the house of Togarmah 'in the uttermost parts! of the north, and all his 'hordes: even (7 many peoples' with thee. Be thou prepared, yea', prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a 8 guard unto them. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, 'that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been la continual waste: but it is brought forth out of the 'peoples', and they shall dwell Ise9) curely, all of them. And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy 'hordes', and many peoples' with (10) thee. Thus saith the Lord GOD: It shall come to pass 'in that day', that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt 'devise an evil 'device': 11 and thou shalt say, I will go up to 3the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at quiet', that dwell 'securely', all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither 12 bars nor gates: to take 'the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thine hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and 'against the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of (13 the earth'. Sheba, and Dedan,

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and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take the spoil? hast thou assembled' thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?

Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD: In that day when my people Israel dwelleth Isecurely, 15) shalt thou not know it? shalt come from thy place Juttermost parts of the

1 Or, Icommander

2 Or, restored\

And thou

out of the north, thou,

and many peoples' with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great com(16 pany and a mighty army: and thou shalt come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the latter days, 'that I will bring thee against my land, that the 'nations! may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus saith the Lord GOD: Art thou he of whom I 'spakel in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days for many years that I would 18 bring thee against them? And it shall come to pass 'in that day!, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up into my nostrils. 19 °For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a shakgreat 20 ing in the land of Israel; so that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall 21 shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him untol all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be 22 against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his 'hordes', and upon the many peoples' that are with him, an overflowing 'shower', and great hailstones, fire, and brim23) stone. And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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3 the mountains of Israel: and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall 4 out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy hordes', and the 'peoples' that are with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the 5 field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have 6 spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. And I will send a fire on Magog, and 'on' them that dwell securely in the 1isles and they shall know that I 7) am the LORD. And my holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I suffer my holy name to be profaned' any more: and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One 8 in Israel. Behold, it cometh', and it shall be done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I 9) have spoken. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn 'them', both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires 10 of them seven years: so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of 'them that pass through on the east of the sea and it shall stop them that pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of 12 Hamon-gog. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse 13 the land. "Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown, in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord 14 GOD. And they shall sever out men of continual employment, 'that shall pass through the land to bury them

1 Or, Icoastlands
2 Or, in front of

3 That is, the multitude of Gog.

5that pass through', that remain upon the face of the land', to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall 15 they search. And they that pass through the land 'shall pass through; and when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the val16) ley of Hamon-gog. "And 'Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD: Speak unto the birds of every 'sort', and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings 19 of Bashan. And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which 20 I have sacrificed for you. Andi ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the 21 Lord GOD. And I will set my glory among the nations', and all the 'nations shall see my judgement that

I have executed, and my hand that 22 I have laid upon them. So the

house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that 23) day and forward. And the 'nations' shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: Iso I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of 24 them by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions 'did' I unto them; and I hid my face from them.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel; and I will 26 be jealous for my holy name. And they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they

Some ancient versions omit the word rendered that pass through.

6 Heb. build. 7 That is, Multitude.

Ishall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; 27 when I have brought them again from the 'peoples', and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of 28) many nations. And they shall

know that I am the LORD their God, in that I caused them to 'gol into captivity among the 'nations, and! have gathered them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them 29 any more there; neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

401 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 smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, 2 and he brought me thither. 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 3 on the south. And he brought me thither, 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; 4 and he stood in the gate. And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

1 Or, leven one threshold

2 Or, Iguard chamber

This verse is omitted in several ancient versions and Hebrew MSS.

7 reed broad. And 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 Itoward the house was one reed. 8 °8He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house', one reed. 9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was 'toward the house!. 10 And the lodges of the gate eastIward 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 11 side. And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen 12 cubits; land a border before the lodges', one cubit on this side, and la border', one cubit on that side; and the lodges', six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13 And he measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door. (14) °He made also posts, threescore cu

bits; and the court reached unto the post, the gate being round about. 15) And from the 'forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were 16 fifty cubits. And there were 'closed' windows to the 'lodges', and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

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Then brought he me into the 'outer' court, and, lo, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were 18) upon the pavement. And the pavement was by the side of the gates, Janswerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits, both on the 20 east and on the north'. And the gate of the outer court 'whose pros

pect is toward the north, he measured the length thereof and the breadth 21 thereof. And the lodges thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth 22 five and twenty cubits. And 'the' windows thereof, and the arches 'thereof', and 'the' palm trees 'thereof1, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were 23) before them. And there was la1 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 an hundred cubits. 24 And he led me toward the south,

and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these 25 measures. And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five 26 and twenty cubits. And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts 27 thereof. And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits. 28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these 29 measures; and the lodges! thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty 30) cubits broad. And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. 31 And the arches thereof were toward

the outer court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the go32 ing up to it had eight steps. And

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

1 Or, lbyl

2 Or, at the stairs of the entry 3 According to some ancient versions, ledges.

Or, in the building

(33 and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty 34 cubits broad. And the arches thereof were toward the 'outer' court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side and the going up to it had eight steps. 35 °And he brought me to the north gate:

and he measured it according to these 36 measures; the lodges thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof; and there were windows therein round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and 37 twenty cubits. And the posts thereof were toward the louter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side and the going up to it had eight steps. 38 And la chamber with the door

thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt 39 offering. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering 40) and the guilt offering. And on the one side without, as one goeth 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 (42) they slew the sacrifices. And 'there! were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and an' half long, and a cubit and 'an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacri43) fice. And the hooks, lan handbreadth long', were fastened within round about: and upon the tables (44 was the flesh of the loblation. And without the inner gate were chambers 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