Ezekiel

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be closed on the six working days; it shall be opened on the sabbath day and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.

The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule outside the gate, and shall attend at the gatepost while the priests sacrifice his burnt offering and his offering of well-being; he shall then bow low at the threshold of the gate and depart. The gate, however, shall not be closed until evening.

The common peopleacommon people I.e., those other than the priests, the Levites, and the prince; lit. “the people of the land.” shall worship before GOD on sabbaths and new moons at the entrance of the same gate.

The burnt offering that the prince presents to GOD on the sabbath day shall consist of six lambs without blemish and one ram without blemish—

with a grain offering of an ephah for the ram, a grain offering of as much as he wishes for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.

And on the day of the new moon, it shall consist of a bull of the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram—they shall be without blemish.

And he shall provide a grain offering of an ephah for the bull, an ephah for the ram, and as much as he can afford for the lambs, with a hin of oil to every ephah.

When the prince enters, he shall come in by way of the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out the same way.

But on the fixed occasions, when the common people come before GOD, whoever enters by the north gate to bow low shall leave by the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate shall leave by the north gate. They shall not go back through the gate by which they came in, but shall go out by the opposite one.bby the opposite one Lit. “straight before him.”

And as for the prince, he shall enter with them when they enter and leave when they leave.

On festivals and fixed occasions, the grain offering shall be an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and as much as he wishes for the lambs, with a hin of oil for every ephah.

The gate that faces east shall also be opened for the prince whenever he offers a freewill offering—be it burnt offering or offering of well-being—freely offered to GOD, so that he may offer his burnt offering or his offering of well-being just as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall leave, and the gate shall be closed after he leaves.

Each day you shall offer a lamb of the first year without blemish, as a daily burnt offering to GOD; you shall offer one every morning.

And every morning regularly you shall offer a grain offering with it: a sixth of an ephah, with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to GOD—a law for all time.

The lamb, the grain offering, and oil shall be presented every morning as a regular burnt offering.

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons, it shall become the latter’s inheritance; it shall pass on to his sons; it is their holding by inheritance.

But if he makes a gift from his inheritance to any of his subjects, it shall only belong to the latter until the year of release.cyear of release Cf. Lev. 25.10. Then it shall revert to the prince; his inheritance must by all means pass on to his sons.

But the prince shall not take property away from any of the people and rob them of their holdings. Only out of his own holdings shall he endow his sons, in order that none of My people may be dispossessed of their holdings.

Then the guidedthe guide Heb. “he”; see 40.3–4. led me into the passage at the side of the gate to the sacred chambers of the priests, which face north, and there, at the rear of it, in the west, I saw a space.

He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the reparation offerings and the purgation offerings, and where they shall bake the grain offerings, so as not to take them into the outer court and make the people consecrated.”emake the people consecrated See the second note at 44.19.

Then he led me into the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court; and in each corner of the court there was an enclosure.

These unroofedfunroofed So Mishnah Middoth 2.5; emendation yields “small.” enclosures, [each] 40 [cubits] long and 30 wide, were in the four corners of the court; the four corner enclosures had the same measurements.

[On the inside,] running round the four of them, there was a row of masonry, equipped with hearths under the rows all around.

He said to me, “These are the kitchens where the temple servitors shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”