< Ezekiel 43 >

1 And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the east.
領我到了面朝東的門那裏。
2 And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by the way of the east: and his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty.
看,以色列天主的光榮由東方而來,有一種響聲,像大水的澎湃聲,大地也因他的光榮而炫耀。
3 And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I had seen when he came to destroy the city: and the appearance was according to the vision which I had seen by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
我所見的神視與我前次來摧毀城市時所見的神視相似,神視的情形也與我以前在革巴爾河畔所見的神視一樣。於是我就伏地掩面。
4 And the majesty of the Lord went into the temple by the way of the gate that looked to the east.
上主的光榮由朝東的門進入聖殿。
5 And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.
神力將我提起,領我進入內院。看,上主的充滿了聖殿。
6 And I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and the man that stood by me,
當那人站在我身旁時,我聽見殿內有一位向我說話的,
7 Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their kings by their fornications, and by the carcasses of their kings, and by the high places.
對我說:「人子,這是安放我寶座的地方,這是我腳掌所踏的地方,我願在這裏永遠住在以色列子民中。以色列家族,他們和他們的的君王,不再以淫亂和自己君王的屍體,玷污我的聖名。
8 They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and their posts by my posts: and there was but a wall between me and them: and they profaned my holy name by the abominations which they committed: for which reason I consumed them in my wrath.
因為他們靠著我的門限安置他們的門限,在我與他們之間僅有一牆之隔。他們曾以自己所行的邪惡之事玷污了我的聖名,為此,我發怒將他們予以消滅。
9 Now therefore let them put away their fornications, and the carcasses of their kings far from me: and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
現今他們要從我面前,除去他們的淫亂和君王的屍體,這樣我要永遠住在他們中。
10 But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the temple, and let them be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the building:
人子,你要向以色列家族闡述這聖殿,使他們對自己的所行感到慚愧;闡述聖殿的完美和構造,
11 And be ashamed of all that they have done. Shew them the form of the house, and of the fashion thereof, the goings out and the comings in, and the whole plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and all its order, and all its laws, and thou shalt write it in their sight: that they may keep the whole form thereof, and its ordinances, and do them.
叫他們對自己的所行的醜事而感到慚愧。你要劃出殿的圖形、結構、出路、進口和所有的式樣,並將各種規定和和種法律告知他們,在他們眼前寫出好叫他們遵守各種法律和規定,一一奉行。
12 This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain: All its border round about is most holy: this then is the law of the house.
這是關於聖殿的規定:山頂周圍所有之地,是神聖不可侵犯的。
13 And these are the measures of the altar by the truest cubit, which is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit: and the border thereof unto its edge, and round about, one handbreadth: and this was the trench of the altar.
祭壇按肘──肘為一肘加一掌──的尺寸如下:底座高一肘,邊寬一肘,在底座四周邊緣有一掌深的溝漕:這是壇座。
14 And from the bottom of the ground to the lowest brim two cubits, and the breadth of one cubit: and from the lesser brim to the greater brim four cubits, and the breadth of one cubit.
地上的底座到下層台座高二肘,邊寬一肘;從小台座到大台座高四肘,邊寬一肘。
15 And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel upward were four horns.
至於壇爐,高四肘;壇爐之上有四個角突出,高一肘。
16 And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with equal sides.
壇爐一二肘畏,十二肘寬;四面成一正方形。
17 And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits broad in the four corners thereof: and the crown round about it was half a cubit, and the bottom of it one cubit round about: and its steps turned toward the east.
台座十四肘長,面面共十四肘寬;四周有半肘的溝槽;周圍還有寬一肘的底座。石階向東。
18 And he said to me: Son of man, thus saith the Lord God: These are the ceremonies of the altar, in what day soever it shall be made: that holocausts may be offered upon it, and blood poured out.
以後他向我說:「人子,吾主上主這樣說:祭壇造成之日,在上面獻全燔祭和灑血的規定如下:
19 And thou shalt give to the priests, and the Levites, that are of the race of Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the Lord God, to offer to me a calf of the herd for sin.
你應給那走近我事奉我的匝多克的後裔肋未司祭──吾主上主的斷語──一頭牛犢,獻為贖罪祭。
20 And thou shalt take of his blood, and shalt put it upon the four horns thereof, and upon the four corners of the brim, and upon the crown round about: and thou shalt cleanse, and expiate it.
你要取血塗在祭壇的四角,台座的四角和周圍的溝槽上,應這樣為祭壇贖罪取潔。
21 And thou shalt take the calf, that is offered for sin: and thou shalt burn him in a separate place of the house without the sanctuary.
此外,再取一頭公牛作贖罪祭,在聖殿固定的地方,聖所之外,將牠焚化。
22 And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish for sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as they expiated it with the calf.
第二天要獻一隻無瑕的小公山羊為贖罪祭,如獻公牛犢所行的一樣,為祭壇取潔。
23 And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation thereof, thou shalt offer a calf of the herd without blemish, and a ram of the flock without blemish.
你行完贖罪祭之後,應獻一頭無瑕的公牛和羊群中一隻無瑕瑕的公羊,
24 And thou shalt offer them in the sight of the Lord: and the priests shall put salt upon them, and shall offer them a holocaust to the Lord.
把牠獻在上主前,司祭在上面撒上鹽,獻予上主為全燔祭。
25 Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat for sill daily: they shall offer also a calf of the herd, and a ram of the flock without blemish.
七天之久,你應每天獻一隻公山羊為贖罪祭,還應獻一頭公牛和羊群中一隻公羊,都應純潔無瑕。
26 Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall consecrate it.
七天之久為祭壇贖罪取潔,予以祝聖。
27 And the days being, expired, on the eighth day and thenceforward, the priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar, and the peace offerings: and I will be pacified towards you, saith the Lord God.
這日期滿了,即第八日及以後,司祭才可以在祭壇上奉獻你們的全燔祭與和平祭,如此我才喜悅你們──吾主上主的斷語。」

< Ezekiel 43 >