| Chapter
46 |
| 1 | Thus
saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east
shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and
in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. |
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2 | And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of
that gate without, 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 forth; but the gate shall not be
shut until the evening. |
| 3 |
Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before
the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons. |
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4 | And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer
unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram
without blemish. |
| 5 | And
the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the
lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. |
| 6 | And in 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. |
| 7 | And
he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a
ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of
oil to an ephah. |
| 8 | And
when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that
gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. |
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9 | But when the people of the land shall come before the
LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to
worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the
way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not
return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over
against it. |
| 10 | And the
prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go
forth, shall go forth. |
| 11 |
And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an
ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to
give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. |
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12 | Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or
peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate
that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his
peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and
after his going forth one shall shut the gate. |
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13 | Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the
LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every
morning. |
| 14 | And thou
shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah,
and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat
offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. |
| 15 | Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and
the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt
offering. |
| 16 | Thus saith
the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance
thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance. |
| 17 | But if he give a gift of
his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of
liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his
sons' for them. |
| 18 |
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression,
to thrust them 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. |
| 19 | After he
brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy
chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was
a place on the two sides westward. |
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20 | Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall
boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat
offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the
people. |
| 21 | Then he
brought me forth into the utter 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 joined of forty cubits long and thirty
broad: these four corners were of one measure. |
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23 | And there was a row of building round about in them,
round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round
about. |
| 24 | Then said he
unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the
house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. |
