The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 46
1 The Lord Yahweh says: “The gate of
the inner court that looks toward the east
shall be shut the six working days; but on
the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on
the day ofthe new moon it shall be opened.
2 The prince shall enter by the way of the
porch of the gate outside, 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
out, but the gate shall not be shut until the
evening.
3 The people of the land shall worship at
the door of that gate before Yahweh on the
Sabbaths and on the new moons.
4 The burnt offering that the prince shall
offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath
day, six lambs without defect and a ram
without defect;
5 and 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.‡
6 On the day of the new moon it shall be
a young bull without defect, six lambs, and
a ram. They shall be without defect.
7 He shall prepare a meal offering: an
ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the
ram, and for the lambs according as he is
able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
8 When the prince enters, he shall go in
by the way of the porch of the gate, and he
shall go out by its way.
9 But when the people of the land
come before Yahweh in 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
came in, but shall go out straight before
him.
10 The prince shall go in with them when
they go in. When they go out, he shall go
out.
11 In the feasts and in the appointed
holidays, the meal offering shall be an
ephah§ for a bull, and an ephah for a ram,
and for the lambs as he is able to give, and
a hin of oil to an ephah.
12 When the prince prepares a free will
offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings
as a free will offering to Yahweh, one
shall open for him the gate that looks
toward the east; and he shall prepare his
burnt offering and his peace offerings, as
he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall
go out; and after his going out one shall
shut the gate.
13 You shall prepare a lamb a year
old without defect for a burnt offering to
Yahweh daily. Morning by morning you
shall prepare it.
14 You shall 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
to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.
15 Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the
meal offering, and the oil, morning by
morning, for a continual burnt offering.”
16 “ ‘The Lord Yahwehsays: “Ifthe prince
gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his
inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It
is their possession by inheritance.
17 But if he gives 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.
18 Moreover the prince shall not take of
the people’s inheritance, to thrust them
out oftheir possession. He shall give inheritance
to his sons out ofhis ownpossession,
that my people not each be scattered from
his possession.
19 Then he brought me through the entry,
which was at the side of the gate,
into the holy rooms for the priests, which
looked toward the north. Behold, there
was a place on the back part westward.
20 He said to 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 not bring
them out into the outer court, to sanctify
the people.”
21 Then he brought me out 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.
22 In the four corners of the court there
were courts enclosed, forty cubits‡ long
and thirty wide. These four in the corners
were the same size.
23 There was a wall around in them,
around the four, and boiling places were
made under the walls all around.
24 Then he said to me, “These are the
boiling houses, where the ministers of the
house shall boilthe sacrifice ofthe people.”