CHAPTER 46
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.
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.
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.
The burnt offering
that
the prince
presents
to the LORD
on the Sabbath
day
shall be six
unblemished
male lambs
and an unblemished
ram.
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.
On the day
of the New Moon
he shall offer
a young,
unblemished
bull,
six
lambs,
and a ram
without blemish.
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.
When the prince
enters,
he shall go in
through
the portico
of the gateway,
and he shall go out
the same way.
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.
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.
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.
And you shall provide
an unblemished
lamb
a year-old
as a daily
burnt offering
to the LORD;
you are to offer it
every morning.
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 perpetual
statute.
Thus they shall provide
the lamb,
the grain offering,
and the oil
every morning
as a regular
burnt offering.’
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.
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.
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.’”
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
And he said
to me,
“These
are the kitchens
where
those who minister
at the temple
will cook
the sacrifices
of the people.”