[1] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks
toward the east shall be shut 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 way of the porch of the gate 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 worship at the
threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be
shut until the evening. [3] The people of the land shall worship at the
door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. [4]
The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the
Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish; [5] and
the meal-offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal-offering for
the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. [6] On the
day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six
lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish: [7] and he shall prepare a
meal-offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the
lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. [8] When the
prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and
he shall go forth by the way of it. [9] But when the people of the land
shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way
of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate;
and he who enters 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 straight before him. [10] The prince, when they go
in, shall go in with of them; and when they go out, he shall go out. [11]
In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-offering shall be an ephah
for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to
give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. [12] When the prince shall prepare a
freewill-offering, a burnt offering or peace-offerings as a
freewill-offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks
toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his
peace-offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and
after his going forth one shall shut the gate. [13] You shall prepare a
lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily:
morning by morning shall you prepare it. [14] You shall prepare a
meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and
the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering
to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance. [15] Thus shall they
prepare the lamb, and the meal-offering, and the oil, morning by morning,
for a continual burnt offering. [16] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the
prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall
belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. [17] But if he
give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to
the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his
inheritance, it shall be for his sons. [18] Moreover the prince shall not
take of the people`s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession;
he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my
people not be scattered every man from his possession. [19] Then he brought
me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy
chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there
was a place on the hinder part westward. [20] 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 meal-offering; that they not
bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people. [21] Then he
brought me forth 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. [22] In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed,
forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one
measure. [23] There was a wall round about in them, round about the four,
and boiling-places were made under the walls round about. [24] Then said he
to me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house shall
boil the sacrifice of the people.
