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Ezekiel 46 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Prince and the Feasts

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:1 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:2 - The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer 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 evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:3 - The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:4 - The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:5 - And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,[fn] and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin[fn] of oil to each ephah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:6 - On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:7 - As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:8 - When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:9 - “When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:10 - When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:11 - “At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:12 - When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:13 - “You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:15 - Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:16 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:18 - The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”

Boiling Places for Offerings

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:19 - Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:20 - And he 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, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:21 - Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:22 - in the four corners of the court were small[fn] courts, forty cubits[fn] long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:23 - On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:24 - Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”
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ESV Footnotes
An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
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