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Ezekiel

Worship Regulations: Offerings, Festivals, and the Prince

Ezekiel 45:13-46:24
13This is the contribution that you shall raise: a sixth of the ephah from a homer of the wheat, and a sixth of the ephah from a homer of the barley. 14And the statute of the oil: the bath of oil shall be a tithe of the bath from the kor; ten baths equal a homer, for ten baths equal a homer. 15And one sheep from the flock out of the two hundred from the irrigation of Israel shall be given for an offering and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD. 16All the people of the land shall belong to this contribution for the leader in Israel. 17And upon the leader shall be the burnt offerings and the offering and the drink offering at the feasts and at the new moons and at the Sabbaths, at all the appointed meetings of the house of Israel. He shall make the sin offering and the offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel. 18Thus says the Lord GOD: On the first day of the month you shall take an unblemished bull, and you shall purify the sanctuary from sin. 19And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and shall put it on the doorpost of the house and on the four corners of the enclosure of the altar and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court. 20And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who wanders and for the simple, and you shall make atonement for the house. 21On the fourteenth day of the first month the Passover shall be held for you, a feast lasting seven days during which unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22And the leader shall make on that day on behalf of himself and on behalf of all the people of the land a bull of sin offering. 23And during the seven days of the feast he shall make a burnt offering to the LORD: seven bullocks and seven unblemished rams each day for seven days, and a sin offering of a male goat of the goats each day. 24He shall also present an offering of an ephah for each bullock and an ephah for each ram, together with a hin of oil for each ephah. 25On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, during the feast, he shall make offerings like these for seven days, like the sin offering, like the burnt offering, and like the offering, and like the oil.
Chapter 46
1Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six days of work, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the month it shall be opened. 2And the leader shall come by way of the hall of the gate from outside and shall stand by the doorpost of the gate, and the priests shall make his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate and shall go out; and the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate on the Sabbaths and on the new moons before the LORD. 4The burnt offering that the leader presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall consist of six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram. 5He shall also present an offering of an ephah for the ram and an offering for the lambs according to the gift of his hand, together with a hin of oil for each ephah. 6On the day of the new moon he shall offer an unblemished bull, six lambs, and an unblemished ram, together with an ephah for the bullock, an ephah for the ram, and whatever offering his hand can provide for the lambs, plus a hin of oil for each ephah. 7He shall present an ephah for the bullock and an ephah for the ram as an offering, and for the lambs whatever his hand attains, together with a hin of oil for each ephah. 8And when the leader comes by way of the hall of the gate, he shall come, and by his way he shall go out. 9And when the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed meetings, the one who comes by way of the north gate to bow down shall go out by way of the south gate, and the one who comes by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate; he shall not return by the gate by which he came, for they shall go out straight ahead. 10The leader shall be among them; when they enter he shall enter, and when they leave they shall leave. 11At the feasts and appointed festivals the offering shall be an ephah for each bullock, an ephah for each ram, and whatever gift his hand provides for the lambs, together with a hin of oil for each ephah. 12When the leader offers a freewill burnt offering or freewill peace offerings to the LORD, the east-facing gate shall be opened for him; he shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offering as he does on the Sabbath, then he shall go out and the gate shall be shut after he leaves. 13Each day he shall offer to the LORD an unblemished year-old lamb as a burnt offering; he shall offer it morning by morning. 14And he shall make an offering upon it each morning: a sixth of the ephah and oil, a third of the hin, to moisten the fine flour as an offering to the LORD, an everlasting statute continually. 15They shall prepare the lamb, the offering, and the oil each morning as a continual burnt offering. 16Thus says the Lord GOD: If the leader gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, the inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall be their possession by inheritance. 17And if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty, and it shall return to the leader; only his inheritance shall belong to his sons. 18And the leader shall not take from the inheritance of the people to oppress them by depriving them of their possession; from his own possession he shall cause his sons to inherit, so that none of my people will be scattered, each man from his possession. 19And he brought me in through the entrance that is upon the shoulder of the gate to the chambers of holiness belonging to the priests that face north, and behold, there was a place at their flank on the western side. 20And 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 offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to consecrate the people. 21Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court, and I saw that in each corner of the court there was a court. 22In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, one measure for all four of them, cornered. 23And a row surrounded them on all four sides, and hearths were made beneath the rows all around. 24He said to me, These are the kitchens where the ministers of the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.
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