1The LORD and King says, ‘On the six working days of each week you must keep the east gate of the inner courtyard of the temple shut. But open it on Sabbath days and during New Moon feasts.2The prince must enter the temple area through the porch of the gateway. He must stand by the gatepost. The priests must sacrifice his burnt offering and friendship offerings. He must bow down in worship at the entrance of the gateway. Then he must leave. But the gate will not be shut until evening.3On Sabbath days and during New Moon feasts the people of the land must gather together. They must gather at the entrance of the temple gateway. That is where they must worship me.4The prince must bring a burnt offering to me on the Sabbath day. It will be six male lambs and a ram. They must not have any flaws.5He must offer 15 kilograms of corn along with the ram. The corn he offers along with the lambs can be as much as he wants to give. He must also offer 4 litres of olive oil for every 15 kilograms of corn.6On the day of the New Moon feast the prince must make another offering. He must offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram. They must not have any flaws.7He must offer 15 kilograms of corn along with the bull or ram. The corn he offers along with the lambs can be as much as he wants to give. He must also offer 4 litres of olive oil for every 15 kilograms of corn.8Here is how the prince must enter the temple area. He must go in through the porch of the gateway. And he must leave the same way.9‘The people of the land must worship me at the appointed feasts. Those who enter through the north gate must leave through the south gate. Those who enter through the south gate must leave through the north gate. They must not leave through the same gate they entered. Each one must go out through the opposite gate.10The prince must be among them. He must go in when they go in. And he must leave when they leave.11At the yearly feasts and other appointed feasts there must be grain offerings. The prince must offer 15 kilograms of corn along with a bull or ram. The corn he offers along with the lambs can be as much as he wants to give. He must also offer 4 litres of olive oil for every 15 kilograms of corn.12‘He may also bring another offering to me because he chooses to. It might be a burnt offering or friendship offering. When he brings it, the east gate must be opened for him. He will bring his offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he will leave. After he has gone out, the gate must be shut.13‘Every day you must provide a lamb that is a year old. It must not have any flaws. It is a burnt offering to me. You must provide it every morning.14You must also offer corn along with it every morning. Bring 2.5 kilograms of corn. Also bring 1.5 litres of olive oil to make the flour a little wet. So you will give the grain offering to me. That will be a law that will last for all time to come.15Provide the lamb, grain offering and oil every morning. They will be used for a regular burnt offering.’16The LORD and King says, ‘Suppose the prince makes a gift from his share of land. And he gives it to one of his sons. Then the property will also belong to his sons after him. It will be handed down to them.17But suppose he makes a gift from his share of land to one of his servants. Then the servant may keep it until the Year of Jubilee. After that, it will be returned to the prince. His property may be handed down only to his sons. It belongs to them.18The prince must not take any share of land that belongs to the people. He must not drive them off their property. He must give his sons their share out of his own property. Then not one of my people will be separated from their property.’19The man brought me through the entrance at the side of the north building. That’s where the priests’ sacred rooms were located. He showed me a place west of the building.20He said to me, ‘This is where the priests must cook the guilt offerings and sin offerings. They must also bake the grain offerings here. Then they will not have to bring the offerings into the outer courtyard. That will keep the people from touching the offerings and becoming holy.’21Then the man brought me to the outer courtyard. He led me around to its four corners. In each corner I saw another smaller courtyard.22So in the four corners of the outer courtyard were walled courtyards. Each one was 24 metres long and 18 metres wide. All of them were the same size.23Around the inside of each of the four courtyards was a stone ledge. Places for fire were built all around under each ledge.24The man said to me, ‘These are the kitchens. Those who serve at the temple must cook the people’s sacrifices here.’
Ezekiel 46
English Standard Version
The Prince and the Feasts
1“Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. (Eze 8:16; Eze 45:18; Eze 45:19)2The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. (Eze 9:3; Eze 40:38; Eze 44:3; Eze 45:19)3The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. (Eze 46:9)4The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. (Nu 28:9; Eze 45:17)5And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,[1] and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin[2] of oil to each ephah. (De 16:17; Eze 45:24; Eze 46:14)6On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.7As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. (Eze 46:5)8When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way. (Eze 46:2)9“When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. (Ex 23:14; De 16:16; Eze 46:3)10When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out. (Ps 42:4)11“At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. (Eze 46:5; Eze 46:7)12When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut. (Le 7:16; Le 22:23; De 23:23; Eze 46:1; Eze 46:2)13“You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. (Ex 29:38; Nu 28:3)14And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute. (Eze 46:5)15Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering. (Nu 23:15; Nu 23:17)16“Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.17But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. (Le 25:10; Eze 45:7)18The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.” (1Sa 8:14; 1Ki 21:3; 1Ki 21:7; Eze 34:4; Eze 45:8)
Boiling Places for Offerings
19Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them. (Eze 42:4; Eze 46:1)20And he 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, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.” (Le 2:4; 2Ch 35:13; Eze 44:19)21Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court—22in the four corners of the court were small[3] courts, forty cubits[4] long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.23On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.24Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.” (Eze 44:11; Eze 46:20)