[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. [2] The prince
shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from without, 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. [3] The
people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate before the
LORD on the sabbaths and on the new moons. [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; [5] and the cereal offering with the ram
shall be an ephah, and the cereal offering with the lambs shall be as much
as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. [6] On the day of
the new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, and six lambs and
a ram, which shall be without blemish; [7] as a cereal 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. [8]
When the prince enters, he shall go in by the vestibule of the gate, and he
shall go out by the same way. [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. [10] When they go
in, the prince shall go in with them; and when they go out, he shall go
out. [11] "At the feasts and the appointed seasons the cereal 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.
[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. [13] "He shall provide a lamb a year
old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by
morning he shall provide it. [14] And he shall provide a cereal 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 cereal offering to the LORD; this is the
ordinance for the continual burnt offering. [15] Thus the lamb and the meal
offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a continual
burnt offering. [16] "Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to
any of his sons out of his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons, it is
their property by inheritance. [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; only his sons may keep a gift from his
inheritance. [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
dispossessed of his property." [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 there I saw a place at the extreme western
end of them. [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 cereal offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer
court and so communicate holiness to the people." [21] Then he brought me
forth to the outer court, and led me to the four corners of the court; and
in each corner of the court there was a court-- [22] in the four corners of
the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four
were of the same size. [23] On the inside, around each of the four courts
was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows round
about. [24] Then he said to me, "These are the kitchens where those who
minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people."
