The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 46

 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 46

1 Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court, which faces east, shall be shut during the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and also on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

2 And the prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, from the outside, and shall stand by the doorpost; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering, his peace offerings; and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate, and go out; but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

3 And the people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of the same gate on the Sabbaths and on the new moons before the Lord.

4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish, and one ram without blemish.

5 The grain offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and for the lamb, the grain offering shall be as much as he can afford; and a hin of oil for each ephah.

6 But on the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs and one ram, they shall be without blemish.

7 And he shall prepare for a grain offering an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram, but for the lambs, as much as he can afford; and a hin of oil for each ephah.

8 And when the prince enters, he shall enter by the way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.

9 But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate; he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he entered, but shall go out by the gate that is directly before him.

10 And the prince shall enter in among them when they enter, and when they go out, they shall all go out.

11 And at feasts and solemn assemblies the grain offering shall be an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, but for lambs whatever he can afford; and of oil a hin for an ephah.

12 And when the prince makes a freewill offering of burnt offerings or peace offerings, a freewill offering to the Lord, then they shall open for him the gate that faces east, and he shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day, and he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

13 And you shall prepare a lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord every day; every morning you shall prepare it.

14 And you shall prepare with it a grain offering every morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a hin of oil, to mix with the fine flour, as a grain offering to the Lord, by a perpetual statute.

15 Thus they shall prepare the lamb and the grain offering, and the oil, every morning, as a continual burnt offering.

16 Thus says the Lord God: When the prince gives a gift to one of his sons, it is his inheritance; it shall belong to his sons; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince, for it is his inheritance; his sons shall inherit it.

18 And the prince shall take nothing from the people’s inheritance, nor take away their possession: he shall leave an inheritance from his own possession to his sons, so that my people may not be removed, each from his possession.

19 After this he brought me by the entrance that was beside the gate, to the holy chambers of the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place on both sides, toward the west.

20 And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall cook the grain offering, so that they do not bring it to the outer court to sanctify the people.”

21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and made me pass through the four corners of the court; and behold, at each corner of the court there was another court.

22 At the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, with chimneys forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide; these four corners had the same measurement.

23 And there was a wall around them, all around the four; and there were kitchens built under the walls all around.

24 And he said to me, “These are the houses of the cooks, where the ministers of the house will cook the sacrifice of the people.”