Ezekiel 46

1 “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

2 The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening.

3 On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow in worship before the LORD at the entrance to that gateway.

4 The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram.

5 The grain offering with the ram shall be one ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, along with a hin of oil per ephah.

6 On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish.

7 He is to provide a grain offering of an ephah with the bull, an ephah with the ram, and as much as he is able with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.

8 When the prince enters, he shall go in through the portico of the gateway, and he shall go out the same way.

9 When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.

10 When the people enter, the prince shall go in with them, and when they leave, he shall leave.

11 At the festivals and appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and as much as one is able to give with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.

12 When the prince makes a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.

13 And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning.

14 You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute.

15 Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.’

16 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.

17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

18 The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”

19 Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end

20 and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

21 Then he brought me into the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw a separate court in each of its corners.

22 In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, each forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Each of the four corner areas had the same dimensions.

23 Around the inside of each of the four courts was a row of masonry with ovens built at the base of the walls on all sides.

24 And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”

1 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of [that] gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day [shall be] six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

5 And the meat offering [shall be] an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

6 And in the day of the new moon [it shall be] a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.

7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of [that] gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

9 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, [one] shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth [one] shall shut the gate.

13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD [of] a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.

14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning [for] a continual burnt offering.

16 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it [shall be] their possession by inheritance.

17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.

18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; [but] he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

19 ¶ After he brought me through the entry, which [was] at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there [was] a place on the two sides westward.

20 Then said he unto me, This [is] the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear [them] not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court [there was] a court.

22 In the four corners of the court [there were] courts joined of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four corners [were] of one measure.

23 And [there was] a row [of building] round about in them, round about them four, and [it was] made with boiling places under the rows round about.

24 Then said he unto me, These [are] the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

1 Thus saith the LORD GOD; The gate of the inner court toward the east shall be shut the six days of the week; but on the sabbath day and on the new moon it shall be opened.

2 And the prince shall go out by heart under the porch of the gate, and stand without by the posts of the gate. And the priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings: and he shall worship in the threshold of the gate, and go out afterward. And the gate shall be open until the even.

3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship in the door of the same gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

4 And the burnt offering, which the prince shall offer before the LORD on the sabbath day, shall be six lambs without issue, and one ram without issue.

5 And an ephah of a meat offering for a ram for a meat offering. And unto the lambs, as much as his hand giveth, for a meat offering, and an hin of oil for an ephah.

6 And on the new moon he shall offer one young bullock without change, and six lambs, and one ram without change,

7 And an ephah to the bullock, and an ephah to the ram for a meat offering. And to the lambs as many as he taketh; and an hin of oil to an ephah.

8 And when the prince goeth in, he shall go in by the way of the hall of the gate, and shall come out by the same way.

9 But the people of the land, when they come before the LORD in the high feasts, and go in to worship at the north gate, they shall go out by the south gate: and they that go in by the south gate shall go out by the north gate, and shall not go out again at the gate by which they went in, but shall go out straightway before them.

10 And the prince shall go in and out with them both.

11 And on the feasts and on the high feasts they shall offer for a meat offering an ephah for every bullock, and an ephah for every ram, and for the lambs as much as his hand giveth, and an hin of oil for every ephah.

12 And if the prince will offer a freewill burnt offering or a peace offering unto the LORD, then the gate shall be opened unto him toward the east, that he may offer his burnt offering and his peace offering, as he is wont to offer on the sabbath day: and when he is come out, the gate shall be shut upon him.

13 And he shall offer a burnt offering daily unto the LORD, a lamb of the first year without change: he shall offer the same every morning.

14 And every morning he shall put thereon the sixth part of an ephah for a meat offering, and the third part of an hin of oil to be drunk upon the fine flour, for a meat offering unto the LORD. This shall be a perpetual statute of the daily sacrifice.

15 And they shall offer the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

16 Thus saith the LORD GOD; When the prince of his sons giveth a gift of his inheritance unto one, the same shall remain unto his sons, and they shall inherit it.

17 And if he give any of his servants of his inheritance, they shall possess it until the year of manumission, and then it shall return unto the prince: for his part shall be inherited by his sons only.

18 Neither shall the prince take from the people any of their inheritance, neither shall he put them out of their own goods: but his own goods shall be inherited by his children, lest any of my people be scattered abroad from their possession.

19 And he brought me under the entrance of the gate toward the north, unto the chambers of the sanctuary which belonged to the priests: and, behold, there was a room there in the corner toward the west.

20 And he said unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering, and the sin offering, and the meat offering, that they may not carry it out into the utter court to sanctify the people.

21 And afterward he brought me forth into the outer court, and commanded me to go into the four corners of the court.

22 And, behold, every one of the four corners had another place to burn incense, forty cubits long, and thirty cubits broad, all four of them of one measure.

23 And there was a wall round about every one of the four: there were flocks made round about upon the walls.

24 And he said unto me, This is the kitchen, wherein the servants of the house shall cook that which the people offer.