Ezekiel 43 — The returning glory and the consecrated altar — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 43:3
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Ezekiel 43 — The returning glory and the consecrated altar
43:1–43:6 — The glory returns through the east gate
Verse 43:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:1] He led me to the gate, the gate facing east.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:1] He led me to the gate facing east and brought me out.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek additionally says that he brought the prophet out.
Verse 43:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:2] Look—the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. His sound was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:2] Look—the glory of the God of Israel was coming by the way of the gate facing east. The sound of the camp was like the sound of many redoubling their sound, and the earth flashed like radiance from the glory all around.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew compares the sound with many waters; Greek has the camp and many redoubling their sound. The latter phrase supplies 'their sound' from the auditory context, without replacing it with the Hebrew comparison.
Verse 43:3 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:3] The appearance of the vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when I came to destroy the city, and the visions were like the vision I had seen by the River Chebar. I fell on my face.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:3] The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when I was entering to anoint the city; and the vision of the chariot I saw was like the vision I had seen by the River Chobar. I fall on my face.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew has first-person 'when I came to destroy'; Greek 'when I was entering to anoint' and explicitly names the chariot. Neither verb is conformed to the other. Greek's historical present 'I fall' is retained.
Verse 43:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:4] The glory of YHWH entered the house by the gate facing east.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:4] The glory of the Lord entered the house by the way of the gate facing east.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both describe the glory entering through the east-facing gate.
Verse 43:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:5] A spirit lifted me and brought me into the inner courtyard. Look—the glory of YHWH filled the house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:5] A spirit lifted me and brought me into the inner court. Look—the house was full of the glory of the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both use an unqualified word for spirit and place the prophet in the inner court.
Verse 43:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:6] I heard someone speaking to me from the house, while a man stood beside me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:6] I stood, and look—a voice from the house, speaking to me, while the man stood next to me.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew explicitly hears someone speaking; Greek first says 'I stood' and then introduces the voice.
43:7–43:9 — A dwelling free from defilement
Verse 43:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:7] He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I shall dwell among the sons of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no longer defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the corpses of their kings at their high places.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:7] He said to me, “Have you seen, son of man, the place of My throne and the place of the footprints of My feet, where My name shall dwell among the house of Israel forever? The house of Israel shall no longer profane My holy name, neither they nor their rulers, by their prostitution and by the murders of the rulers among them—
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek opens with a question and says My name will dwell, where Hebrew says I shall dwell. Hebrew corpses of kings at their high places contrasts with Greek murders of rulers among them.
Verse 43:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:8] By setting their threshold beside My threshold and their doorpost beside My doorpost, with only the wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. So I consumed them in My anger.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:8] —when they set My vestibule among their vestibules and My doorposts next to their doorposts, and placed My wall as adjoining Me and them. They profaned My holy name by the lawless deeds they practiced, and I wiped them out in My wrath and in slaughter.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The threshold or vestibule relation is reversed: Hebrew their threshold beside Mine; Greek My vestibule among theirs. Greek explicitly adds slaughter and calls the wall Mine.
Verse 43:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:9] Now let them put their prostitution and the corpses of their kings far away from Me, and I shall dwell among them forever.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:9] Now let them drive their prostitution and the murders of their rulers away from Me, and I shall dwell among them forever.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The corpses/murders and kings/rulers difference continues.
43:10–43:12 — The house shown to Israel
Verse 43:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:10] You, son of man, describe the house to the house of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; let them measure the pattern.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:10] You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, and they shall cease from their sins. Show its appearance and its arrangement—
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew speaks of shame and measuring the pattern; Greek of ceasing from sins and showing the appearance and arrangement. The second 'show' is supplied from the opening imperative.
Verse 43:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:11] If they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the form of the house and its arrangement, its exits and entrances, all its forms and all its statutes, all its forms and all its instructions. Write them before their eyes, so that they may keep all its form and all its statutes and carry them out.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:11] —and they shall receive their punishment for everything they have done. You shall draw the house, its exits, and its structure; make known to them all its commands and all its ordinances, and draw them before them. They shall keep all My judgments and all My commands and carry them out,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's conditional shame and repeated 'all its forms' are preserved. Greek announces punishment, omits the entrance item, and ends with My judgments and My commands rather than the house's forms and statutes.
Verse 43:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:12] This is the instruction for the house: on the mountain's summit, its entire territory all around is most holy. Look—this is the instruction for the house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:12] together with the drawing of the house on the mountain's summit: all its boundaries all around are most holy.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek continues the preceding construction and has a drawing; Hebrew frames the statement twice as the instruction for the house.
43:13–43:17 — The altar's measurements
Verse 43:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:13] These are the altar's measurements in cubits, each cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: the base was a cubit, and a cubit wide, with a border along its edge all around of one span. This was the base of the altar.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:13] These are the altar's measurements in a cubit consisting of a cubit and a handbreadth: a hollow one cubit deep and one cubit wide, with a ledge along its edge all around of a span. This was the altar's height:
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both specify the longer cubit. Hebrew ḥeq is provisionally the base or recessed base; Greek explicitly a hollow with depth. Hebrew gav is rendered base here, while Greek says height.
Verse 43:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:14] From the ground-level base to the lower ledge was two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit. From the smaller ledge to the larger ledge was four cubits, with a breadth of a cubit.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:14] from the depth at the beginning of its hollow to the large lower place of atonement, two cubits, with a breadth of a cubit; and from the small place of atonement to the large place of atonement, four cubits, with a breadth of a cubit.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The dimensions agree. Greek calls the structures hilastērion, 'place of atonement'; Hebrew calls them ledges. This Greek term is not silently turned into an ark's cover in the altar description.
Verse 43:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:15] The altar hearth was four cubits, and above the hearth were the four horns.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:15] The Ariel was four cubits, and from the Ariel upward above the horns was a cubit.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew specifies four horns; Greek gives a one-cubit dimension above the horns. Hebrew har’el and ’ari’el are both rendered by the contextual hearth term; Greek's loanword Ariel is retained and explained in the glossary.
Verse 43:16 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:16] The hearth was twelve cubits long by twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:16] The Ariel was twelve cubits long by twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both give a twelve-by-twelve square. Greek retains the loanword Ariel for the altar feature.
Verse 43:17 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:17] The ledge was fourteen cubits long by fourteen cubits wide on its four sides. Its border all around was half a cubit, and its surrounding base was a cubit. Its steps faced east.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:17] The place of atonement was fourteen cubits long by fourteen cubits wide on its four sides. Its surrounding ledge ran all around it at half a cubit, and its surrounding band was a cubit all around. Its steps faced east.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The numerical dimensions and east-facing steps agree, with different technical descriptions of ledge, base, and surrounding band.
43:18–43:27 — Seven days of consecration
Verse 43:18 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:18] He said to me, “Son of man, thus says Lord YHWH: These are the altar's statutes on the day it is made, for offering burnt offerings on it and dashing blood against it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:18] He said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: These are the altar's commands on the day it is made, for offering burnt offerings on it and pouring blood against it.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek names the God of Israel; Hebrew uses Lord YHWH. The blood actions are rendered from each source's verb.
Verse 43:19 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:19] You shall give the Levitical priests who are of Zadok's offspring and draw near to Me to minister to Me—declares Lord YHWH—a young bull as a sin offering.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:19] You shall give the Levitical priests who are of Zadok's offspring and draw near to Me to minister to Me, says the Lord God, a calf from the cattle as an offering for sin.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both specify Levitical priests of Zadok's offspring; the established identical figure is rendered Zadok in both columns.
Verse 43:20 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:20] You shall take some of its blood and put it on the altar's four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall purify it from sin and make atonement for it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:20] They shall take some of its blood and put it on the altar's four horns, on the four corners of the place of atonement, and on the base all around. They shall make atonement for it.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew addresses you and has both purification and atonement verbs; Greek shifts to they and has the atonement verb alone.
Verse 43:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:21] You shall take the bull for the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the designated part of the house, outside the sanctuary.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:21] They shall take the calf for the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the separated area of the house, outside the holy places.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew addresses you, then uses an indefinite burner; Greek uses they and a passive burning verb. Both place the burning outside the sanctuary or holy areas.
Verse 43:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:22] On the second day you shall present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and they shall purify the altar from sin as they purified it with the bull.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:22] On the second day they shall take two unblemished goat kids for sin, and they shall make atonement for the altar as they made atonement with the calf.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew has one male goat; Greek explicitly two kids. Hebrew you present contrasts with Greek they take.
Verse 43:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:23] When you have finished purifying it from sin, you shall present an unblemished young bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:23] After you have completed the atonement, they shall bring an unblemished calf from the cattle and an unblemished ram from the sheep.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek changes from your completing the atonement to their bringing the animals; Hebrew keeps you as the presenter.
Verse 43:24 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:24] You shall present them before YHWH, and the priests shall throw salt upon them and offer them as a burnt offering to YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:24] You all shall bring them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt upon them and offer them as burnt offerings to the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek's presenting verb addresses a plural you, marked 'you all'; Hebrew addresses singular you. Both explicitly salt the offerings.
Verse 43:25 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:25] For seven days you shall prepare a goat as a sin offering each day; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both unblemished.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:25] For seven days you shall prepare a kid for sin each day, and a calf from the cattle and a ram from the sheep. They shall prepare unblemished animals—
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both command seven daily preparations and unblemished animals; Greek's final duration continues in verse 26.
Verse 43:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:26] For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and they shall fill its hand.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:26] —for seven days. They shall make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and they shall fill their hands.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The consecration idiom is retained visibly: Hebrew 'its hand' refers to the altar; Greek 'their hands' refers to the participants. Greek's opening seven days completes verse 25.
Verse 43:27 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[43:27] They shall complete the days. From the eighth day onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar, and I shall accept you—declares Lord YHWH.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[43:27] From the eighth day onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your offerings for well-being on the altar. I shall accept you, says the Lord.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew first states completion of the days; Greek begins directly with the eighth day. Both promise acceptance after the consecration period.