Ezekiel / Worship Regulations: Offerings, Festivals, and the Prince

Worship Regulations: Offerings, Festivals, and the Prince

Ezekiel 45:13-46:24

Chapter 45

¹³ This is the offering which you shall lift up: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley. ¹⁴ And the statute of the oil, the tenth of the oil, from a tenth of the homer: ten baths of a homer for ten baths of a homer. ¹⁵ And one sheep from the thousands of the flock from the watering places of Israel for a grain offering and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings to atone for them, says the Lord the LORD. ¹⁶ All the people of the land shall offer this for the chieftain in Israel. ¹⁷ And upon the prince shall be the burnt offerings and the grain offering and the libation offering in the festivals and in the new moons and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed times of the house of Israel. He shall make the sin offering and the grain offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel. ¹⁸ Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull, a son of cattle, unblemished, and you shall make a sin offering for the sanctuary. ¹⁹ And the priest took some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorpost of the house and on the four corners of the platform of the altar and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner courtyard. ²⁰ And you shall do this on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins by mistake or is simpleminded, and you shall make atonement for the house on their behalf. ²¹ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, there shall be for you the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. ²² And the tribal leader will make on that day for himself and for all the people of the promised land a bull sin offering. ²³ And for the seven days of the festival he shall make a burnt offering to the LORD: seven bulls and seven rams without blemish each day for seven days, and a sin offering of a goat each day. ²⁴ And a grain offering—an ephah to the bull and an ephah to the ram—he shall make, and wine, a hin to the ephah. ²⁵ In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during the festival, he shall do these things for seven days: as a sin offering, as a burnt offering, as a grain offering, and oil.

Chapter 46

¹ Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be closed the six days of the work, and on the day of the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. ² And the ruler comes by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stands on the doorpost of the gate, and the priests make his burnt offering and his sacrifices of well-being, and he prostrates himself on the threshold of the gate and goes out, and the gate is not shut until evening. ³ And the people of the land worshiped at the entrance of that gate on the Sabbaths and new moons—before the LORD. ⁴ And the burnt offering that the chieftain will present to the LORD on the day of the Sabbath: six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram. ⁵ And a grain offering of an ephah for the ram and for the lambs: a grain offering from the gift of his hand, and oil a hin to the ephah. ⁶ And on the day of the new moon, a bull—a young bull unblemished, and six lambs and a ram, unblemished—they shall be. ⁷ And an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram he shall make a grain offering, and for the lambs according as his hand attains, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ⁸ And when the chieftain comes by way of the porch of the gate, he will come in, and by his way he will go out. ⁹ And when the people of the earth come before the LORD at the appointed times, the one coming by way of the north gate to prostrate himself goes out by way of the south gate, and the one coming by way of the south gate goes out by way of the north gate; he shall not return by way of the gate by which he came in, for they go straight out opposite. ¹⁰ And the Ruler in their midst—in their coming he will come, and in their going out they will go out. ¹¹ And in the festivals and in the appointed times the grain offering shall be an ephah to the bull and an ephah to the ram and to the lambs according to the gift of his hand, and oil a hin to the ephah. ¹² And when the ruler makes a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, then they shall open for him the gate facing east, and he shall make his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he makes them on the Sabbath. Then he shall go out, and they shall close the gate after he goes out. ¹³ And a lamb, a son of its year, unblemished, you shall make a burnt offering day by day to the LORD; morning by morning you shall make it. ¹⁴ And a grain offering shall be made upon it morning by morning, a sixth of the ephah, and a third of the hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD, eternal statutes continually. ¹⁵ They shall prepare the lamb and the grain offering and the oil every morning, a continual burnt offering. ¹⁶ Thus says the Lord the LORD: If the ruler gives a gift to one of his sons from his inheritance, it will belong to his sons; it will be their inheritance. ¹⁷ And if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of jubilee release, and it will return to the prince; but his inheritance will belong to his sons. ¹⁸ And the prince shall not take from the inheritance of the people to wrong them from their holding; from his holding he shall inherit to his sons, so that they shall not dispossess my people, a man from his holding. ¹⁹ And he brought me through the entrance that was at the side of the gate to the holy chambers for the priests facing north, and behold, there a place at their rear toward the sea. ²⁰ And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering there, where they will bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out to the outer courtyard to sanctify the people." ²¹ And he brought me out to the outer court, and he caused me to pass to the four corners of the court. And behold, a court in the corner of the court, a court in the corner of the court. ²² In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide; one measurement for the four of them, from the corners. ²³ And a row around them, around their four, and cooking places made under the rows around. ²⁴ And he said to me, "These are the houses of the boilers where the servitors of the house will boil the sacrifice of the people there."