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Ezekiel 40:1-2
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Ezekiel 40:1-2
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Vision of the New Temple
40 [a]In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was conquered, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, 2 and brought me in the visions of God into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city opposite me.[b]
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- 40–48. In these chapters Ezekiel describes the new temple and its worship. The passage is not meant to be taken historically and, in fact, the later builders of the temple made no attempt to take it literally. The prophet is referring to the Messianic times in symbolic language.
- Ezekiel 40:2 Gk: Heb on the south
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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