Ezekiel 40:38
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.”
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“There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the chamber and its opening <FI>is<Fi> by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 40:38 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 1:9The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:13The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall bring all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 8:21He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- 1 Kings 6:8The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
- 2 Chronicles 4:6He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.
- Ezekiel 40:12In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.
- Ezekiel 40:17Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
- Ezekiel 41:10and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
- Ezekiel 42:13Then 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.
- Hebrews 10:22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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