I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.

I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”

For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.

He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.

He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.

Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

He measured the south side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.

They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

“‘They must not shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they must only trim their heads.

This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple.

Thus they will provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil morning by morning, as a perpetual burnt offering.