Ezekiel 40:38
Good News Translation
In the outer courtyard there was an annex attached to the inner gateway on the north side. It opened into the entrance room that faced the courtyard, and there they washed the carcasses of the animals to be burned whole as sacrifices.

New Revised Standard Version
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

New American Bible
There was a chamber opening off the vestibule of the gate where burnt offerings were washed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

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And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

the chambers

Ezekiel 40:12 And the border before the little chambers one cubit: and one cubit was the border on both sides: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side and that side.

Ezekiel 41:10,11 And between the chambers was the breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. . . .

1 Kings 6:8 The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.

10th chapter and

22nd verse. `Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.'

Context
Eight Tables for Sacrifices
38And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.39And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side: that the holocaust, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering might be slain thereon.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:12
As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord, and for the treasures of the consecrated things,

2 Chronicles 4:6
He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

Nehemiah 13:5
And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.

Nehemiah 13:9
And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.

Jeremiah 35:4
And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the treasure house of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which was by the treasure house of the princes, above the treasure of Maasias the son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry.

Jeremiah 36:10
And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people.

Ezekiel 40:17
And he brought me into the outward court, and behold there were chambers, and a pavement of stone in the court round about: thirty chambers encompassed the pavement.

Ezekiel 40:44
And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singing men in the inner court, which was on the side of the gate that looketh to the north: and their prospect was towards the south, one at the side of the east gate, which looketh toward the north.

Ezekiel 40:45
And he said to me: This chamber, which looketh toward the south shall be for the priests that watch in the wards of the temple.

Ezekiel 40:46
But the chamber that looketh towards the north shall be for the priests that watch over the ministry of the altar. These are the sons of Sadoc, who among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord, to minister to him.

Ezekiel 41:10
And between the chambers was the breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

Ezekiel 42:13
And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.

Ezekiel 40:37
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