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46:1  Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall remain closed on 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.
46:2  The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt-offering and his offerings of well-being, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until evening.
46:3  The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
46:4  The burnt-offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;
46:5  and the grain-offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain-offering with the lambs shall be as much as he wishes to give, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
46:6  On the day of the new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish;
46:7  as a grain-offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wishes, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
46:8  When the prince enters, he shall come in by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.
46:9  When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: they shall not return by way of the gate by which they entered, but shall go out straight ahead.
46:10  When they come in, the prince shall come in with them; and when they go out, he shall go out.
46:11  At the festivals and the appointed seasons the grain-offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one wishes to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.
46:12  When the prince provides a freewill-offering, either a burnt-offering or offerings of well-being as a freewill-offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him; and he shall offer his burnt-offering or his offerings of well-being as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be closed.
46:13  He shall provide a lamb, a yearling without blemish, for a burnt-offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning he shall provide it.
46:14  And he shall provide a grain-offering with it morning by morning regularly, one-sixth of an ephah, and one-third of a hin of oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain-offering to the Lord; this is the ordinance for all time.
46:15  Thus the lamb and the grain-offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, as a regular burnt-offering.
46:16  Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons out of his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons, it is their holding by inheritance.
46:17  But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall revert to the prince; only his sons may keep a gift from his inheritance.
46:18  The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their holding; he shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own holding, so that none of my people shall be dispossessed of their holding.
46:19  Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests; and there I saw a place at the extreme western end of them.
46:20  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 grain-offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so communicate holiness to the people.’
46:21  Then he brought me out to the outer court, and led me past the four corners of the court; and in each corner of the court there was a court—
46:22  in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size.
46:23  On the inside, round each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all round.
46:24  Then he said to me, ‘These are the kitchens where those who serve at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.’