Ezekiel 46

¹‘Thus says the Lord God

²The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

³Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the Lord

⁴The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord

⁵and the grain offering shall be one ephah for a ram, and the grain offering for the lambs, as much as he wants to give, as well as a hin of oil with every ephah.

⁶On the day of the New Moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.

⁷He shall prepare a grain offering of an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.

⁸When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.

⁹“But when the people of the land come before the Lord

¹⁰The prince shall then be in their midst. When they go in, he shall go in; and when they go out, he shall go out.

¹¹At the festivals and the appointed feast days the grain offering shall be an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.

¹²“Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the Lord

¹³“You shall daily make a burnt offering to the Lord

¹⁴And you shall prepare a grain offering with it every morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. This grain offering is a perpetual ordinance, to be made regularly to the Lord

¹⁵Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, as a regular burnt offering every morning.”

¹⁶‘Thus says the Lord God

¹⁷But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty, after which it shall return to the prince. But his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall become theirs.

¹⁸Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting them from their property; he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people may be scattered from his property.” ’ ”

¹⁹Now he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests which face toward the north; and there a place was situated at their extreme western end.

²⁰And 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 grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”

²¹Then he brought me out into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and in fact, in every corner of the court there was another court.

²²In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; all four corners were the same size.

²³There was a row of building stones all around in them, all around the four of them; and cooking hearths were made under the rows of stones all around.

²⁴And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where the ministers of the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”