The Book of Ezekiel
46: 1Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward
the east shall be shut 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. 46:2And the prince shall
enter by the way of the porch of the 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. 46:3And the people of the land shall worship
at the door of that gate before Jehovah on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
46:4And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto Jehovah shall be on the
sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish; 46:5and the
meal-offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal-offering for the lambs
as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 46:6And on 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: 46:7and he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for the
bullock, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a
hin of oil to an ephah. 46:8And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the
way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. 46:9But when
the people of the land shall come before Jehovah in the appointed feasts, he that
entereth by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth 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 straight before him. 46:10And the prince, when they go in, shall
go in in the midst of them; and when they go forth, they shall go forth together.
46:11And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-offering shall be an ephah for
a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a
hin of oil to an ephah. 46:12And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a
burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, one shall
open for him the gate that looketh toward the east; and he shall prepare his
burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day: then he
shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 46:13And thou shalt
prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah
daily: morning by morning shalt thou prepare it. 46:14And thou shalt prepare a
meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the
third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering unto Jehovah
continually by a perpetual ordinance. 46:15Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the
meal-offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt-offering.
46:16Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, it is
his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.
46:17But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to
the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it
shall be for his sons. 46:18Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his
sons out of his own possession, that my people be not scattered every man from
his possession. 46:19Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of
the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north:
and, behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward. 46:20And he said unto
me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the
sin-offering, and where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they bring them
not forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people. 46:21Then he brought me forth
into the outer 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. 46:22In the four corners of the
court there were courts inclosed, forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four in
the corners were of one measure. 46:23And there was a wall round about in them,
round about the four, and boiling-places were made under the walls round about.
46:24Then said he unto me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the
house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.