Ezekiel 46

¹ “‘This is what the Lord GOD says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to remain closed during the six working days, but it is to be opened on the Sabbath day and on the new moon.

² The prince is to enter from outside through the gate’s portico and stand beside the gatepost. The priests are to prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he is to bow down at the gate’s threshold and then go out. The gate is not to be shut until evening.

³ The people of the land are to bow down before the LORD at the entrance of that gate on the Sabbaths and new moons.

⁴ The burnt offering the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day is to be six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram.

⁵ The grain offering is to be an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs it is to be as much as he can give; with one hin of oil for each ephah.

⁶ On the new moon, it is to be one unblemished young bull from the herd, six lambs, and one ram; they are all to be unblemished.

⁷ He is to prepare a grain offering of an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram; for the lambs, it is to be as much as he can afford; with one hin of oil for each ephah.

⁸ When the prince enters, he is to come through the gate’s portico, and he is to go out by the same way.

⁹ When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by way of the north gate to bow down is to go out by way of the south gate; and whoever enters by way of the south gate is to go out by way of the north gate. No one is to turn back by the gate through which they entered, but is to go out through the gate opposite.

¹⁰ The prince is to be among them: when they enter, he is to enter with them, and when they go out, he is to go out with them.

¹¹ At the festivals and appointed times, the grain offering is to be an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram; for the lambs, it is to be as much as he can give; with one hin of oil for each ephah.

¹² When the prince prepares a freewill offering, whether a burnt offering or peace offerings, as a freewill offering to the LORD, the east-facing gate is to be opened for him. He is to prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day; then he is to go out, and the gate is to be shut after he has gone out.’”

¹³ “‘You are to prepare for the LORD a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering every day. You are to prepare it morning after morning.

¹⁴ Morning after morning, you are to prepare with it a grain offering: one-sixth of an ephah and one-third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. This is the grain offering to the LORD, a lasting decree, forever.

¹⁵ They are to prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil morning after morning as a regular burnt offering.

¹⁶ This is what the Lord GOD says: If the prince gives a gift to one of his sons, it will be his inheritance and will belong to his sons; it will be their possession by inheritance.

¹⁷ But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to the servant until the year of release; then it will return to the prince. Only the inheritance of his sons will remain theirs.

¹⁸ The prince is not to take any of the people’s inheritance, oppressing them by taking their property. He is to give his sons an inheritance from his own property, so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

¹⁹ Then he brought me through the entrance beside the gate to the priests’ holy rooms, which faced north. There, at the far end, was a place facing west.

²⁰ He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, and bake the grain offering, so that they do not carry them into the outer court and make the people holy.”

²¹ Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to its four corners. There was a court in each corner of the court.

²² In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. All four corner courts were the same size.

²³ A stone ledge ran all around the inside of each of them, all four, and cooking hearths had been made underneath the ledges all around.

²⁴ He said to me, “These are the kitchens where the temple servants will cook the people’s sacrifices.”

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