God's New Revelations

The Prophet Ezekiel

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- Chapter 46 -

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This is also what Yahweh the Lord declares: ’The east gateway of the inner courtyard must be shut during the six days you work each week, but on the Sabbath days and on the days when there is a new moon, the gateway must be open.
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The ruler must enter the courtyard through the entry room of the gateway, and stand alongside the gateposts of the inner courtyard. Then the priests must sacrifice the animal that will be completely burned on the altar, and also his offering to promise friendship with me. The ruler must worship me at the entrance of the inner gateway, and then he must leave. But the gate will not be shut until that evening.
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On the Sabbath days and on the days when there is a new moon, the people also must worship me at the entrance of this gate.
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The offering that the ruler brings to be completely burned on the Sabbath day must be six male lambs and one ram, all with no defects.
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The offering that he gives with the ram is twenty-two liters of flour, and the flour that he offers with the lambs should be as much as he pleases, along with one liter of olive oil for every twenty-two liters of flour.
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Then each day that there is a new moon, he must offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all with no defects.
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He must also provide twenty-two liters of flour with the bull, the same amount of flour with the ram, and as much flour as he wants with the lambs, along with one liter of olive oil with every twenty-two liters of flour.
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When the ruler enters the temple area, he must enter through the gate and its entry room, and he must go out by the same way.
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When the people come to worship me at the festivals that I, Yahweh, have commanded, those who enter the temple area through the north gateway must go out through the south gateway. And those who enter through the south gateway must go out through the north gateway. People must not go out through the gateway through which they entered; they must go out through the opposite gateway.
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The ruler must go in when the other people go in, and go out when the people go out.
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During the festivals that you hold for me, the king must present twenty-two liters of flour along with a bull or a ram, and as much flour as he wants to with the lambs, along with one liter of olive oil with every twenty-two liters of flour.
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When the ruler gives an offering that is not required, either one to be completely burned or an offering to celebrate fellowship with me, the gate on the east side must be opened for him. He must then present his offerings like he does on the Sabbath days. Then he will go out, and after he goes out, they must shut the gateway.
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In the morning of every day, someone must provide a one year old lamb with no defects to be an offering to me, one that the priests will completely burn.
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Someone must also provide each morning an offering of flour. It must be three and one-half liters of flour mixed with one liter of olive oil. You must never stop presenting these offerings of flour and olive oil to me, Yahweh, each day.
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The lamb and the offering of flour and olive oil must be presented to me every morning, to be completely burned on the altar.
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This is what Yahweh the Lord declares: If the ruler gives some of his land to one of his sons, to belong to him permanently, it will then eventually belong to his son’s descendants.
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However, if he gives some of his land to one of his servants, the servant is allowed to keep that land until the year of the celebration of Jubilee. Then the ruler must take possession of it again. But if the ruler gives land to his sons, that land will belong to them permanently.
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The ruler must not take any land that the people own and force them to live somewhere else. The land that he gives to his sons must be from his own property, not from anyone else’s property, in order that none of my people will be separated from his own property.’”

The Courts for Boiling and Baking

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Then, in the vision, the man brought me through the entrance alongside the gateway to the sacred rooms on the north side, the rooms that belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place at the western end.
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He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will cook the meat of the offerings that people make because they failed to do what they promised Yahweh that they would do, and offerings to cause people to become acceptable to God, and where they will bake bread made with the flour brought as offerings. They will cook those things in their rooms in order to avoid bringing them into the outer courtyard to cook them there, lest someone might be consecrated by touching them.”
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Then the man brought me to the outer courtyard and led me around to its four corners. In each corner I saw an enclosed area;
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each was twenty-two meters long and sixteen meters wide.
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Around the inside of each of these enclosed areas was a stone ledge, with places to make fires all around under the ledge.
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The man said to me, “These are the kitchens where the descendants of Levi who work in the temple will cook the sacrifices that the people bring.”
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“‘The Lord GOD says: “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.
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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 out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
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The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
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The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the LORD shall be on the Sabbath day, six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;
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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 (a) of oil to an ephah.(b)
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On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, six lambs, and a ram. They shall be without defect.
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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.
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When the prince enters, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.
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“‘“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; and 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 go out straight before him.
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The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.
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“‘“In the feasts and in the appointed holidays, the meal offering shall be an ephah(c) 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.
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When the prince prepares a free will offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a free will offering to the LORD, 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 out; and after his going out one shall shut the gate.
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“‘“You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to the LORD daily. Morning by morning you shall prepare it.
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You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah,(d) and the third part of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to the LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance.
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Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.”
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“‘The Lord GOD says: “If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.
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But if he gives 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.
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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 each be scattered from his possession.”’”

The Courts for Boiling and Baking

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Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north. Behold, there was a place on the back part westward.
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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 out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”
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Then he brought me out 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.
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In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits(e) long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.
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There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.
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Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”

Footnotes

(a)46:5 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.
(b)46:5 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
(c)46:11 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
(d)46:14 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
(e)46:22 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.