Ezekiel 43:12
New International Version
“This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.

New Living Translation
And this is the basic law of the Temple: absolute holiness! The entire top of the mountain where the Temple is built is holy. Yes, this is the basic law of the Temple.

English Standard Version
This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

King James Bible
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

New King James Version
This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

New American Standard Bible
This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

NASB 1995
“This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

NASB 1977
“This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Legacy Standard Bible
This is the law of the house: within its entire boundary, on the top of the mountain all around, shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Amplified Bible
This is the law of the temple: Its entire area all around on the top of the mountain (Mount Moriah) shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

Christian Standard Bible
This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be especially holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is the law of the temple: all its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be especially holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.”

American Standard Version
This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
This is the appearance of the house on the top of the mountain, and all its borders as they are circling The Holy of Holies

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt shew the plan of the house on the top of the mountain: all its limits round about shall be most holy.

Contemporary English Version
The temple area on my holy mountain must be kept sacred! This is the most important law about the temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"This is a regulation of the temple: The whole area all the way around the top of the mountain is most holy. Yes, this is a regulation of the temple."

Good News Translation
This is the law of the Temple: All the area surrounding it on the top of the mountain is sacred and holy."

International Standard Version
This is to be the regulation for the Temple: the entire area on top of the mountain is to be considered wholly consecrated. This is to be the law of the Temple."

JPS Tanakh 1917
This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Literal Standard Version
This [is] a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all around [is] most holy; behold, this [is] a law of the house.

Majority Standard Bible
This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

New American Bible
This is the law for the temple: the entire area on top of the mountain all around will be a most holy place. This is the law for the temple.

NET Bible
"This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.

New Revised Standard Version
This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. This is the law of the temple.

New Heart English Bible
"This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Look, this is the law of the house.

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain, the whole limit of it around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

World English Bible
“This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Young's Literal Translation
This is a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all round about is most holy; lo, this is a law of the house.

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Context
The Glory of the LORD Returns to the Temple
11and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out. 12This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

Cross References
Ezekiel 20:40
For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your offerings and choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.

Ezekiel 40:2
In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.

Micah 4:1
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.


Treasury of Scripture

This is the law of the house; On the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Upon

Ezekiel 40:2
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

Ezekiel 42:20
He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

Psalm 93:5
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

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Ezekiel 43
1. The returning of the glory of God into the temple
7. The sin of Israel hindered God's presence
10. The prophet exhorts them to repentance and observation of the law of the house
13. The measures
18. and ordinances of the altar














(12) Upon the top of the mountain.--Comp. Ezekiel 40:2. The command to keep and observe everything is closed, as often in similar cases, by a summary statement of the reason: for the whole surroundings of the dwelling-place of the Most High are holy.

With Ezekiel 43:13 a new part of the vision begins, extending to the close of Ezekiel 46, describing the new ordinances of the sanctuary. This is fitly opened with a description of the altar for the sacrifices, the central act of the ancient worship.

Verse 12. - This is the law of the house. In this instance "the house" must not be restricted to the temple proper, consisting of the holy place and the holy of holies, but extended to the whole free space encompassing the outer court, the quadrangular area of three thousand cubits square (Ezekiel 42:16-20); and concerning this house as so defined, the fundamental torah, law, or regulation, is declared to be that of its complete sanctity. Ewald and Smend, as usual, unite with the LXX. in connecting "upon the top of the mountain" with "house;" but expositors generally agree that the clause belong to the words that follow, Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about; and that the prophet's thought is that the entire territory upon the mountain summit included within the above specified border, and not merely the inner sanctuary, or even that with its chambers and courts, was to be regarded as most holy, or as a holy of holies, i.e. was to be consecrated as the innermost adytum of the tabernacle and temple had been. by the indwelling of Jehovah. Smend notes that "This is the law" is the customary underwriting and superscription of the laws of the priest-code (see Leviticus 6:9, 14; Leviticus 7:1, 37; Leviticus 11:46; Leviticus 12:7; Leviticus 13:59; Leviticus 14:54; Leviticus 15:32); but it need not result from this that the priest. code borrowed this expression from Ezekiel, who employs it only in this verse. The more rational hypothesis is that Ezekiel, himself a priest, made use of this formula, because acquainted with it as already existing in the so-called priest-code.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This
זֹ֖את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

is the law
תּוֹרַ֣ת (tō·w·raṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

of the temple:
הַבָּ֑יִת (hab·bā·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

All
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

its surrounding
סָבִ֤יב ׀ (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

territory
גְּבֻל֞וֹ (gə·ḇu·lōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

top
רֹ֣אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7218: The head

of the mountain
הָ֠הָר (hā·hār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

will be most holy.
קֹ֣דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

Yes,
הִנֵּה־ (hin·nêh-)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

this
זֹ֖את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

is the law
תּוֹרַ֥ת (tō·w·raṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

of the temple.
הַבָּֽיִת׃ (hab·bā·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house


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