Yechezkel 46 יחזקאל מ״ו

Thus says the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looks towards the east shall be shut for the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate from 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 bow down at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

Likewise the people of the land shall bow down at the door of this gate before the Lord on the sabbaths and on the new moons.

And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord on the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

And the meal offering shall be an efa for a ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to every efa.

And on the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.

And he shall prepare a meal offering, an efa for a bullock, and an efa for a ram, and for the lambs according as his means extend, and a hin of oil to an efa.

And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord on the appointed seasons, he that enters in by the way of the north gate to bow down shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that 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 same gate through which he came in, but shall go out straight ahead.

And the prince shall be in the midst of them; when they go in, he shall go in; and when they go out, they shall go out together.

And on the feasts and on the appointed seasons the meal offering shall be an efa for a bullock, and an efa for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with every efa.

Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily to the Lord, the gate that looks towards the east shall be opened for him, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he shall do on the sabbath day: then he shall go out; and after his going out the gate shall be shut.

And thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering to the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.

And thou shalt prepare a meal offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an efa, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering continually by perpetual ordinances to the Lord.

Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

Thus says the Lord God; if the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it shall be his inheritance, it shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance to thrust them wrongfully out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked towards the north: and, behold, there was a place on the far side westward.

Then he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meal offering; so that they do not carry them out into the outer court, to hallow the people.

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.

In the four corners of the court there were roofless courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

And there was a row of masonry round about in them, round about those four, and it was made with cooking hearths under the rows round about.

Then he said to me, These are the places of them that cook, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.