 1 Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces eastward 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. 2 The ruler shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate outside, and shall stand by the gatepost. And the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. And he shall go out, 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 the Lord on the Sabbaths and in the new moons. 4 The burnt offering that the ruler shall offer to the Lord in the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. 5 The food offering shall be a bushel for a ram and the food offering for the lambs as he is able to give and a hin of oil to a bushel. 6 In the day of the new moon, a bull without blemish and six lambs and a ram without blemish. 7 He shall prepare a food offering, a bushel for a bull, and a bushel for a ram, and for the lambs as his hand shall be able to get, and a hin of oil to a bushel. 8 When the ruler shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and by its way he shall go out. 9 But when the people of the land come before the Lord in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate. He who 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 gate by which he came in but shall leave opposite it. 10 The ruler shall go in among them when they go in. He shall go out when they go out. 11 In the feasts and in the appointed feasts, the food offering shall be a bushel to a bull and a bushel to a ram and to the lambs as he is able to give and a hin of oil to a bushel. 12 When the ruler prepares a free will burnt offering or peace offerings willingly to the Lord, one shall then open to him the gate that faces eastward and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out and after going out, one shall shut the gate. 13 You shall daily prepare a burnt offering to the Lord. A lamb without blemish, a son of a year. You shall prepare it every morning. 14 You shall prepare a food offering for it every morning. The sixth of a bushel and third of a hin of oil to make the fine flour moist. A food offering every day by an ordinance forever to the Lord. 15 So they shall prepare the lamb and the food offering and the oil every morning for a burnt offering continually. 16 Thus says the Lord God: If the ruler gives a gift to any of his sons, the inheritance of it will be his sons' possession by inheritance. 17 But if he gives a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it will be his to the year of liberty. Afterward, it shall return to the ruler. But his inheritance will be for his sons. 18 The ruler shall not take from the people's inheritance, oppressing them out of their possession. But he shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own possession. So that my people may not be scattered, each from his possession. 19 He brought me through the entry which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, facing north. And behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. 20 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 food offering, so that they may not bear them out into the outer court to sanctify the people. 21 He led me out into the outer court and he made me 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 were enclosed courts, 40 cubits long and 30 wide, one measure to the four of them, being made in corners. 23 A row was all around in them, all around the four of them. And boiling water was made under the rows all around. 24 He said to me, These are the places of those who boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
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