CHAPTER 46

¹Thus said the Master, the LORD: “The gate of the inner court facing eastward shall be closed during the six workdays, and on the sabbath day it shall be open and on the day of the new moon it shall be open. ²And the prince shall come through the gate hall from outside and stand by the lintel of the gate, and the priest shall do his burnt offerings and his well-being sacrifices, and he shall bow down on the threshold of the gate and go out, and the gate shall not be closed until evening. ³And the people of the land shall bow down before the LORD at the entrance of that gate on sabbaths and on new moons. ⁴And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the LORD on the sabbath day shall be six unblemished sheep and an unblemished ram. ⁵And a grain offering, an ephah for each ram, and for the sheep, a grain offering, the gift of his hand, and oil, a hin to the ephah. ⁶And on the day of the new moon, an unblemished bull from the herd and six sheep and a ram. Unblemished shall they be. ⁷And an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram he shall do as a grain offering, and for the sheep, as his hand may attain, and oil, a hin to the ephah. ⁸And when the prince enters, through the gate hall he shall enter and by way of it he shall go out. ⁹And when the people of the land enter before the LORD on the appointed times, who enters through the northern gate to bow down shall go out through the southern gate, and who enters through the southern gate shall go out through the northern gate, and he shall not go back through the gate by which he entered, but straight ahead of him he shall go out. ¹⁰As for the prince, in their midst when they enter he shall enter, and where they go out he shall go out. ¹¹And on the festivals and on the appointed times the grain offering shall be an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram and for the sheep the gift of his hand, and oil, a hin to the ephah. ¹²And should the prince do a freewill offering, whether burnt offering or well-being sacrifices, a freewill offering to the LORD, he shall open the gate facing eastward and do his burnt offering and his well-being sacrifices as he does on the sabbath day, and he shall go out and close the gate after he has gone out. ¹³And a yearling unblemished sheep he shall do on the sabbath day, a burnt offering to the LORD for the day, each morning you shall do it. ¹⁴And a grain offering you shall do together with it, each morning, the sixth of an ephah, and oil, the third of a hin, to sprinkle on the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD, an everlasting perpetual statute. ¹⁵And they shall do the sheep and the grain offering and the oil every morning, a perpetual burnt offering. ¹⁶Thus said the Master, the LORD: Should the prince give a gift to one of his sons, it shall be his estate, to his sons shall their holding be, it comes in estate. ¹⁷And should he give a gift from his estate to one of his servants, it shall be his till the year of release and shall go back to the prince. His estate must surely belong to his sons. ¹⁸And the prince shall not take from the estate of the people to cheat them of their holding. From his own holding he shall bequeath to his sons, so that My people be not scattered each man from his holding.”

¹⁹And he brought me into the entrance that is on the side of the gate to the sacred chambers for the priests that face northward, and, look, there was a place in the far corner to the west. ²⁰And he said to me, “This is the place in which the priests prepare the guilt offering and the offense offering, where they bake the grain offering so as not to bring it out to the outer court to consecrate the people.” ²¹And He took me out to the outer court and made me pass by the four corners of the court, and, look, there was an enclosure in each corner of the court. ²²In the four corners of the court there were enclosures without roofs, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide the measure of each of the four corners. ²³And there was a row of bricks within all around for the four of them, and cooking utensils fashioned beneath the rows all around. ²⁴And He said to me, “These are the kitchens where the ministrants of the house cook the sacrifices of the people.”