Chapter 46
1 "‘ The Lord GOD says : " The gate of the inner court that looks towards the east shall be shut the six working days ; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened , and on the day of the 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 the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons .
4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD , one shall open for him the gate that looks towards 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 GOD says : " If the 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 of their possession . He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession , 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 towards 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 boil the sacrifice of the people ."